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Werewolves are now movie monsters. But they were once thought to be all too real. In 1589, villagers in Bedburg, Germany, are convinced that a werewolf is killing women and children only to discover the killer is really one of their own.

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Tens of thousands were accused of being wolf-men.

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Tonight.

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called clinical lycanthropy

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They'd mount their backs,

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about a creature that devours a family...

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is a creation and servant of the devil.

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Help, please!

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crushing their heads and decapitating them

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that only penance would placate God's wrath.

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He sent the carcass to be displayed at Versailles.

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There will not be another.

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Knowing the beast is dead will be enough for me.

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I don't care how fierce this wolf is.

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You see the night ten years ago?

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But, if an accident also rendered me a cripple,

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New York Police have had come their way

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They don't know how to stop him.

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can rest easy this morning

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This was the monster?

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I was transformed

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and eat their flesh...

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Large patches of his skin were peeled off

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Eugene Weidmann, a German citizen living in France,

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And the execution would take place in public.

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of seeing a man have his head cut off.

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