Case file · Cryptid
The Pavia werewolf
Jobus Fincelius and Johann Weyer report that in 1541 a farmer near Pavia, believing himself a wolf, attacked and killed several people in the fields; when caught he said his wolf's fur grew inside his skin. He died after his captors cut him to check.
1541 CE · 45.19, 9.15 · status: account
The sceptical view
Read today as a case of clinical lycanthropy, a delusion of turning into an animal; the details come from 16th-century compilers.