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La bête du gévaudan 

Between 1765 and 1767, an unknown creature killed over 100 people in a rural region of France and captivated a horrified world

many French at the time presumed the Beast to be a wolf and many modern scholars agree, some have suggested that the Beast may not have been a wolf at all.

The first recorded fatal attack of the Beast occurred on June 1764 when a 14 year old shepherdess, Jeanne Boulet, tended a flock of sheep. Boulet was not the creature’s first victim. As it said by a historian , about two months prior, a young woman tending cattle was attacked by a creature “like a wolf, yet not a wolf” but escaped because the herd defended her

The attacks continued through the summer and autumn, It ​partially ate women and the young, according to the reports, lone adult men were also targets. There were so many attacks that some speculated there were in fact two or more beasts.

The terrified populace of Gévaudan did not sit idle and individual stories of bravery captivated the public. As bounties were offered and hunters combed the countryside looking for the creature.

On October 1764

Hours safter a mauling, the Beast was seen at Chateau de la Baume, stalking a herdsman. Hunters followed the animal into the woods and shot the creature but after a fall, the Beast rose and ran off

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They prompted the court of King Louis XV to send royal hunters to destroy the Beast. There was a 6,000 livre bounty on the creature’s head. The story of the Beast, meanwhile, was spreading and covered in newspapers from Boston to Brussels, becoming one of history’s first media sensations

Now the story of how the king’s men were nearly shown up by a girl

Marie-Jeanne Valet 

 she described the Beast as looking like an unusually large dog. According to the account, she was crossing between branches of a river through a small wooded area when she turned to discover the beast immediately behind her. As it reared up for an attack, the young woman plunged a homemade spear she had been carrying into its chest. Injured but not dead, the beast raised a paw to the injury, crying out loudly, and then rolled off into the waters of the river.

The beast was finally slain in 1767 by a local farmer, ending the reign of terror.

Historians, scientists, and conspiracy theorists have all proposed theories about what the Beast was. Among the suspects: a Eurasian wolf, an armored war dog, a striped hyena, a lion, some kind of prehistoric predator, a werewolf, a dog-wolf hybrid and a human.

Of the candidates the most fanciful is the werewolf. Which points out that marie purportedly used a silver

spear to slay the wolf, thereby feeding into werewolf mythology

Among all that, There is a magnificent statue created by artist Philippe Kaeppelin memorializes the bravery of young Marie-Jeanne 

AndThere are also sculptures of the beast , and a monument to the beast slayer, in La Bresseyre-Saint-Mar

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Orpheus and Eurydice "

One of the great tragic love stories from Greek mythology, the tale of the musician Orpheus and his wife Eurydice features love, death, poetry, and the afterlife

Orpheus is , the archetype of the musician and poet in Greek mythology

His voice and the music of his lyre were the reason of his survival

He was said to live near Mount Olympus, and could often be found singing there

Animals, trees, and stones followed him,even the rivers stopped flowing just to listen to his music

His singing was so beautiful that wild beasts would tamely follow him, seduced by the power of his song. Indeed

His mother was the goddess of singing, Calliope" and his father was the Thracian king Uegros or as the legend goes

the god Apollo "

They said Apollo gave him the lyre,

That He used to play melodious tunes with his magnificent heart

Meanwhile Eurydice was a nymph lived in forests She liked to gather flowers and running among hills

They fell madly in love with each other and got married

But One day, while she was out among the Thracian countryside, she was pursued by a shepherd, Aristaeus, who wanted her. As she fled from him, she stood on a serpent which reared up and bit her on the leg, killing her with its venom.

Orpheus grieved at the loss of the love of his life. But the one thing he had was his song, so he went to the Underworld

"the hell" to beg for the return of his beloved Eurydice to the land of the living

Orpheus used his lyre and his beautiful singing to charm the demons of the hell. His singing even charmed Hades, the god of the Underworld, and his wife Persephone, Perhaps because Hades and Persephone knew, as husband and wife, what it was like to love someone, they were moved not only by Orpheus’ music but by his petition as well; they certainly agreed to his request, then allowed Eurydice to return with Orpheus to the land of the living. Orpheus’ song, and his perilous journey into the Underworld, were proof of his love and devotion to his wife.

However, Hades imposed one condition: Orpheus was to lead the way out of the Underworld, with Eurydice following behind him but on no account was Orpheus to turn back and look at his wife until they were clear of the Underworld and back in the world of the living.

Orpheus agreed, but as he was making his way back from the Underworld, he was gripped by a terrible doubt. What if Hades and Persephone had tricked him, and he was leaving his wife behind? What if she wasn’t behind him at all? Eventually when he was not far from exiting the Underworld – Orpheus couldn’t resist any longer, and turned back to see his wife, Eurydice

He shouldn’t have doubted.

But in looking back, he had broken the one condition Hades and Persephone had laid down: not to glance back until they were both out . And so he had to watch in horror and despair as Eurydice was taken back down into the Underworld

all because he looked back at her. So, Eurydice died a second time this time thanks to her husband

Orpheus tried to return down to plead with the gods again, but he found the entrance to Hades barred… this time for good. Not even his song could gain him entry

According to various versions of the myth, he started playing a mourning song with his lyre, calling for death so that he can be united with Eurydice forever. He was killed either by beasts tearing him apart, or by the Maenads, in a frenzied mood. According to another version, Zeus decided to strike him with lightning knowing Orpheus may reveal the secrets of the underworld to humans. In any case, Orpheus dies, but the Muses decided to save his head and keep it among the living people to sing forever, enchanting everyone with his melodies and tones

For his soul don't worry , it settled in peace, he also proceeded to search for Eurydice among the dead, until they gathered again with great happiness.

sometimes they walking side by side and other times she followed him or he walked behind her, but now he could turn to her and fill his eyes with the beauty of her face without fear of losing her again, nothing could separate them now and forever