[HN Gopher] The 18th-century French media stoked a werewolf panic
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The 18th-century French media stoked a werewolf panic
Author : PaulHoule
Score : 69 points
Date : 2024-07-03 16:39 UTC (4 days ago)
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| LaundroMat wrote:
| The question isn't answered, except for one sentence that says
| illustrators had a field day depicting a large beast.
|
| Also, nowhere is it said people believed the beast to be a
| werewolf.
|
| A reminder that headlines that start with an interrogative
| pronoun usually have little substance.
| BoingBoomTschak wrote:
| French here, never heard of any connection with werewolves.
| Only that it was either an immense wolf or possibly a hyena
| brought who-knows-how from Africa.
|
| Note from a dive in the rabbit hole of the French Wikipedia
| page: it seems it was truly a wolf which was - according to its
| autopsy - 1m long "from the base of its tail to the top of its
| head" and weighed more than 50kg.
| backtoyoujim wrote:
| Fun French flick on a fictionalized version of this panic is a
| film called "Le Pacte des loups" or "Brotherhood of the Wolf".
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Wolf
|
| Worth watching for some of that cultural milieu.
| hattmall wrote:
| Pretty Amazing movie and story.
| karaterobot wrote:
| Worth watching for the craziest match cut ever. Monica Bellucci
| into a mountain range.
| Loughla wrote:
| Sweet Lord that is one of my favorite movies! The fight scenes
| are amazing, and the story is absolutely phenomenal.
| cushychicken wrote:
| Brotherhood of the Wolf is rad.
| eastbound wrote:
| What about the other film, The Beast of the Gevaudan, is it
| good? I thought it was more famous.
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352224/
| pyinstallwoes wrote:
| I remember watching that as a kid and freaking out. Those were
| the good days.
| emmanueloga_ wrote:
| I love this movie, but I wonder what happened to the director
| [1]. This movie was his one-hit. Apparently, he has a Silent
| Hill movie in production since 2020. Not a good sign ... :-/
|
| Fun trivia: Mark Dacascos who played "Mani" starred in John
| Wick 3 as the main antagonist :-) [2].
|
| --
|
| 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Gans
|
| 2:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wick:_Chapter_3_%E2%80%93...
| homarp wrote:
| according to IMDB the movie is done, just no release date
| atombender wrote:
| With filmographies like these, I'm really curious about how
| the person makes a living. It's been ten years since his last
| film. How is he paying the rent?
| usrusr wrote:
| Amazingly effective game, apparently even turned into a movie not
| once but twice (Cry_Wolf and one Austrian adaption, according to
| de.wikipedia). That connection to an 18th century media hype adds
| an interesting new angle to the success of that game, in
| particular given how France is not exactly known as a big
| exporter of modern games except for that one.
|
| (whereas in pre-modern games, there seems to be be a huge amount
| of frenchess everywhere. I guess that's still a consequence of
| the idleness enforced at Versailles and Europe's near-universal
| scramble to replicate?)
| donkeybeer wrote:
| Can you comment more on what you mean by pre-modern games and
| their Frenchness?
| usrusr wrote:
| For example the suits of playing cards [0]: here in Germany
| we have our own suits, but those decks are really only used
| for some very specific games. For all other games, we use the
| same cards as the English speaking world and we call those
| _French_. For diamonds and spades even the French names
| remain, in heavily adapted spelling: Karo from carreau and
| Pik from pique.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card_suit
| dmoy wrote:
| What's funny is those Skat decks that are clearly the
| "normal" (French I guess hahah) suits, except with still
| only Skat number of cards and nonstandard colors. So it's
| 32 cards, and green/etc colors, but it replaces the bells
| and acorns.
|
| That's like 90%+ of the skat decks I ever used, but it
| didn't occur to me that it was like halfway between
| original German deck and French deck
| dlachausse wrote:
| This French company exports a few modern games...
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft
|
| I know it's not exactly what you meant.
| soneca wrote:
| From my understanding, a panic was the result of more than a
| hundred people being violently killed by an animal. Not by "the
| media".
|
| There is not one mention of werewolf in how it describes the
| happenings of the time, only when talking about the game.
|
| Very clickbaity title trying to get the attention of those that
| like to blame "the media" for everything
| helpfulContrib wrote:
| "Stoked" implies there was already a fire - indeed, an animal
| was attacking and killing villagers - it doesn't mean 'created
| entirely out of nothingness' ...
|
| You stoke a fire to get it going, and you can do that with old
| or new fires, alike.
| Mistletoe wrote:
| Wait is The Werewolves of Millers Hollow the modern game with the
| app One Night Ultimate Werewolf? My family loves that game! Never
| knew it was a modern take on such an old game and this story.
| throwawayk7h wrote:
| It's more like Mafia from what I understand, with multiple
| day/night cycles.
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