Re: Irish Werewolf
Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:18 pm
Personally, I've never heard about this particular legend until now, but some googling has turned up some relevant articles.
So, looks like he wasn't making it up.
Another related site.
Wasn't really all that hard to find, just googled Irish Werewolves and Irish Werewolf Legends.
Emphasis on the Ossory mine.This site wrote: In Ireland in 1182, a priest travelling from Ulster into Meath, and having to pass the night in a wood, was sitting by a fire which he had made, when a wolf accosted him in human speech.
He was, he said, a man of Ossory, on whose race lay an ancient curse, whereby every seven years a man and a woman were changed into wolves; at the end of seven years they recovered their proper form, and two others suffered a like transformation.
Emphasis on Faoladh mine.This other site wrote: While an ancient Irish werewolf, sometimes called a Faoladh, was in his wolf-shape he laid waste to sheep-folds and demolished cattle, and was in every respect as ardent and ferocious as any natural-born wolf. If one surprised him and attacked him in the act of eating, he usually ran straight home and resumed his human form.
So, looks like he wasn't making it up.
Another related site.
Wasn't really all that hard to find, just googled Irish Werewolves and Irish Werewolf Legends.