loup-garou
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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
Among some of the races of India, among the Khonds of the mountains of Orissa, a superstition obtains like that of the loup-garou of France.
From The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Williams, Howard
And “the Gray Master of the Quah-Davic,” as Kane had dubbed him, was no loup-garou, no outcast human soul incarcerate in wolf form, but simply a great Alaskan timber-wolf.
From Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
It might be made by the hilt of a sword; or did a loup-garou ever clatter paw against man's dwelling?
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell
