The Serial Killer - Part XIII
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The next werewolf of our chronicle is Gilles Garnier, a french hermit from the XVI century, known as the "Werewolf of Dole". Gilles was also a child lover, murdering young children and cannibalizing their corpses claiming that he used a magic ointment to transform into a werewolf to make it easier to hunt. This ointment had been given to him by a spectre.
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The next werewolf of our chronicle is Gilles Garnier, a french hermit from the XVI century, known as the "Werewolf of Dole". Gilles was also a child lover, murdering young children and cannibalizing their corpses claiming that he used a magic ointment to transform into a werewolf to make it easier to hunt. This ointment had been given to him by a spectre.
Apparentely it all started because Gilles married and, being unaccustomed to feeding more than just himself, he found it difficult to provide for his wife causing discontent between them. It was then that several children went misteriously missing or were found dead and the authorities of the Franche-Comté province issued an edict encouraging and allowing the people to apprehend and kill the werewolf responsible. One evening a group of workers traveling from a neighboring town came upon what they thought in the dim light to be a wolf but what some recognized as the hermit with the body of a dead child. Soon after Giles Garnier was arrested.
Garnier confessed to have stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of 9 and 12. In October 1572, his first victim was a 10-year-old girl whom he dragged into a vineyard outside of Dole. He strangled her, removed her clothes, and ate the flesh from her thighs and arms. When he had finished he removed some flesh and took it home to his wife. Weeks later Garnier savagely attacked another girl, biting and clawing her, but was interrupted by passersby and fled. The girl succumbed to her injuries a few days later. In November, Garnier killed a 10-year-old boy, again cannibalizing him by eating from his thighs and belly and tearing off a leg to save for later. Finally, he strangled another boy but was interrupted for the second time by a group of passersby. He had to abandon his prey before he could eat from it.
Garnier was not found guilty of murder, but of “crimes of lycanthropy and witchcraft” and was burned at the stake. I find it interesting to note a particular aspect of these cases of lycanthropy - the criminals themselves wanted the world to believe they had some sort of relationship with some kind of supernatural entity. They felt the need to justify their strange preferences with some kind of connection to outside world beings, common to their age. This is a phenomenon that extends all times. I recall that Ted Bundy, one of the most prolific serial killers in America, and one we will be dealing with later, justified his blood lust by blaming pornography magazines and the culture of obscenity that prevailed in the seventies.
Garnier confessed to have stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of 9 and 12. In October 1572, his first victim was a 10-year-old girl whom he dragged into a vineyard outside of Dole. He strangled her, removed her clothes, and ate the flesh from her thighs and arms. When he had finished he removed some flesh and took it home to his wife. Weeks later Garnier savagely attacked another girl, biting and clawing her, but was interrupted by passersby and fled. The girl succumbed to her injuries a few days later. In November, Garnier killed a 10-year-old boy, again cannibalizing him by eating from his thighs and belly and tearing off a leg to save for later. Finally, he strangled another boy but was interrupted for the second time by a group of passersby. He had to abandon his prey before he could eat from it.
Garnier was not found guilty of murder, but of “crimes of lycanthropy and witchcraft” and was burned at the stake. I find it interesting to note a particular aspect of these cases of lycanthropy - the criminals themselves wanted the world to believe they had some sort of relationship with some kind of supernatural entity. They felt the need to justify their strange preferences with some kind of connection to outside world beings, common to their age. This is a phenomenon that extends all times. I recall that Ted Bundy, one of the most prolific serial killers in America, and one we will be dealing with later, justified his blood lust by blaming pornography magazines and the culture of obscenity that prevailed in the seventies.
Which brings me to two realizations, neither shared by this one who writes you - either they are ashamed of what they did and do not want the world to know the full measure of their desires, or they are cowards seeking for a last, desperate justification, and finding it in the madness of the world that surrounds them.
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