#loups garous

Les LOUPS GAROUS (avec Ricky SAILOR)

"Rien ne va plus / Sensass' "

(7". Disques Festival. 1962) [FR]

"The Vercors' muleteers who used their animals to bring down the mountain firs proceeded as follows, to defend themselves from the wolves that, until the middle of the 19th century, came from the Larps mountains : the tail mule wore a large leather apron on its hindquarters that the bites had no hold on. Then, with a ring, a bundle of boxwood* was attached to this leather apron, which moved from right to left depending on the bumps in the road, and whose movement, by disturbing the wolf pack, prevented it from approaching."

*boxwood is a very thorny shrub.

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In this distribution of beliefs, the phenomenon that we note from the outset (…) is an opposition of geographical character : lowlands / mountains. Opposition that corresponds to a notable difference in themes, both in form and in substance.

Schematically, in the mountainous regions, the stories and the belief in werewolves are supported by structured and constructed stories, with recurring themes: typical stories with very traditional content.

In the plain, the majority of the stories, of much less elaborate forms, convey, by their very clear anti-feudal side, the affirmation of an exploitation of the people by the lords and the clergy.

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From the 16th century, in official documents and on many occasions, we witness a "terminological confusion" : the narrator himself does not seem to make a difference between the two semantic spaces : wolves and werewolves.

It is not clear where the boundary lies between the two "beings" that both evoke a feeling close to terror.

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- Excerpt from a 16th century document, written by a local notary, in the small village of Saint Antoine : " (…) shortly after sunset, the wolf went to take from a child who was walking under the trellis ; while his mother was feeding a smaller one, the beast carried him off without anyone being able to help him. His remains were never found. Some time before, a werewolf had taken another child from the house of A. Some time later, the mother of this child, saw the wolf again advancing towards the village at nightfall, and shouted "Wolf! Wolf!", the wolf jumped at her throat. The woman had already been dead for a long time when help arrived."

The same document relates several times that the wolves that attack have already devoured the dogs that are supposed to protect the farms.

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C'est le début d'une longue série ! Voici la première carte de la série les Loups-Garous de Thiercelieux :

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Mon avis : Ce titre me titillait depuis un moment et… j’ai fini par craquer et je l’ai lu. Ce n’est pas de l’urban fantasy mais plutôt de la romance paranormale. Ici, l’intrigue tient sur peu. On a affaire à une romance sur fond de fantastique. L’autrice s’intéresse avant toute chose à la relation de ses héros, tout tourne autour de Killian et de Una. Les personnages secondaires servent de…