The terrifying legend of Bedburg: The story of a man who was transformed into a werewolf in the Middle Ages

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The terrifying legend of Bedburg: The story of a man who was transformed into a werewolf in the Middle Ages

Peter Stumpf was an "ordinary" German peasant living in the village of Bedburg near Cologne. Ordinary, yet different. To those around him, he was a freak. Today, according to all available information, we would classify him as mentally ill or mentally retarded individuals. In the 16th century, however, nothing of the sort was known, and so Peter Stumpf lived as a tolerated local lunatic. But in the 1580s, people began to disappear in this area, …