castles in spain. the divining rod. the wild beast of gevaudan. pygmalion's statue. the home of charles dickens. share full article. june 23, 1867.

Authorities, fearing a mass hysteria in the population, asked for military assistance. Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, the captain of the local infantry, organized a hunt involving, as he claims, 30,000 men.

A little Sergio Leone here, a little "Sleepy Hollow" there and, uh, martial arts-style confrontations are all deftly melded in "Brotherhood of the Wolf," an attempt to elucidate the French urban ...

The film revisits one of the rare French myths, that of the "Beast of Gevaudan". Southern France in the 1760s, 25 years before the revolution. A terrible creature, ...