loup-garou
Americannoun
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loups-garous
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George Rodrigue, who died in 2013, was catapulted to fame by his blue dog paintings, which were based on a Cajun legend called loup-garou.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2015
When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Marie de France in her "Lays" included the Breton romance of Bisclaveret, the loup-garou.
From Masters of the Guild by L. Lamprey
The legend of the loup-garou had no place in the land they had entered.
From A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories by F. Clifford (Frank Clifford) Smith
They had already been informed that if they did not keep still when the lady returned they would be given to the loup-garou and other mythical and traditional terrors of habitant childhood.
From The Peace of Roaring River by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
Likewise, one might run into haints, phantasmagorical flaming skulls, duppies, lycanthropic loups-garous and more.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
He opens the door and window that have been shut tight against strangers and the loups-garous, the werewolves that stalk the nights of the superstitious.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody knew that the island of Orleans had been from the time of its discovery the abode of loups-garous, sorcerers, and all those uncanny cattle that run in the twilights of the world.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
"If loups-garous are abroad, also, what is to become of this unhappy land?"
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Those whom the French called loups-garous were in German termed werewolves.
From The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Erckmann-Chatrian
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