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  • noun Plural form of loup-garou.

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Examples

  • With Big Pete beside me, now that I was thoroughly awake, I would fight all the werwolves of the old world and all the loup-garous of Canada.

    The Black Wolf Pack Daniel Carter Beard 1895

  • In 1579, so much alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Melun by the increase of witches and _loup-garous_, that a council was held to devise some measures to stay the evil.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

  • In 1579, so much alarm was excited in the neighbourhood of Melun by the increase of witches and loup-garous, that a council was held to devise some measures to stay the evil.

    Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Charles Mackay 1851

  • When in Nottingham, eggs may not be carried out after sunset; when Ireland hears Banshees, or apparitional old women, with streaming hair, and dressed in blue mantles; when Scotland sees a shroud about a person, showing his approaching death; when France has her loup-garous, revenants, and poules du Vendredi Saint (i.e. hens hatched on Good Friday supposed to change colour every year): as long as the Holy Coat cures devotees at Treves, Madonnas wink at Rimini, San Januario melts at

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • The two loup-garous Po and Zucker are menacing and scary, perfect in their roles as Castor’s main opposition.

    "Vicious Circle" by Mike Carey Paul 2008

  • Eventually Felix gets some information on Dennis Peace’s whereabouts, but when two loup-garous show up with an equal interest in Peace and a threatening disposition towards Castor, the mystery surrounding Abbie deepens further.

    "Vicious Circle" by Mike Carey Paul 2008

  • The two loup-garous Po and Zucker are menacing and scary, perfect in their roles as Castor’s main opposition.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Paul 2008

  • Eventually Felix gets some information on Dennis Peace’s whereabouts, but when two loup-garous show up with an equal interest in Peace and a threatening disposition towards Castor, the mystery surrounding Abbie deepens further.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Paul 2008

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