Peter Stubbe (Stumpp)

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1589: Peter Stubbe <a href="http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/10/31/1589-peter-stubbe-sybil-stubbe-and-katharina-trump/" target="blank">Peter Stubbe</a> (also spelled Stumpp or Stumpf) was known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg." His name may have actually been Griswold; the name "Stumpp" could have come from the fact that he was missing his left hand. This only actual record of this curious case is in the form of <a href="http://www.werewolfpage.com/myths/stubbe.html" target="blank">a lurid pamphlet which was circulated in Germany</a> as a sensational tabloid would be today. Only a later translation exists now. Some accounts peg Stubbe as <a href="http://www.skcentral.com/articles.php?article_id=430" target="blank">a serial killer</a>, who murdered and sometime ate his victims over a 25-year period. He was also accused of incest with his daughter, which produced a son whom he murdered. There is also speculation that Stubbe was completely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_Bedburg" target="blank">railroaded for political purposes</a>, or to calm those who were terrified of the demons that were killing the townspeople.

At any rate, as he was stretched on the rack, Stubbe told how he made a deal with the devil and received a magic belt that turned him into a werewolf when he wore it. He confessed to murder, incest, and cannibalism. Stubbe's execution on October 31st, 1589 in Bedburg, Germany was an exceptionally gruesome process. He was first lashed to a wheel, where the flesh was torn from his body, then his arms and legs were broken, then finally his head was chopped off. Then his body was burned. Stubbe's girlfriend (a distant relative) and daughter, both accused of incest, were also tortured and then burned alive. After the executions, a real wolf's body was hung in public, his head replaced with Stubbe's head as a warning to anyone else contemplating lycanthropy.
1589: Peter Stubbe <a href="http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/10/31/1589-peter-stubbe-sybil-stubbe-and-katharina-trump/" target="blank">Peter Stubbe</a> (also spelled Stumpp or Stumpf) was known as "the Werewolf of Bedburg." His name may have actually been Griswold; the name "Stumpp" could have come from the fact that he was missing his left hand. This only actual record of this curious case is in the form of <a href="http://www.werewolfpage.com/myths/stubbe.html" target="blank">a lurid pamphlet which was circulated in Germany</a> as a sensational tabloid would be today. Only a later translation exists now. Some accounts peg Stubbe as <a href="http://www.skcentral.com/articles.php?article_id=430" target="blank">a serial killer</a>, who murdered and sometime ate his victims over a 25-year period. He was also accused of incest with his daughter, which produced a son whom he murdered. There is also speculation that Stubbe was completely <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf_of_Bedburg" target="blank">railroaded for political purposes</a>, or to calm those who were terrified of the demons that were killing the townspeople.

At any rate, as he was stretched on the rack, Stubbe told how he made a deal with the devil and received a magic belt that turned him into a werewolf when he wore it. He confessed to murder, incest, and cannibalism. Stubbe's execution on October 31st, 1589 in Bedburg, Germany was an exceptionally gruesome process. He was first lashed to a wheel, where the flesh was torn from his body, then his arms and legs were broken, then finally his head was chopped off. Then his body was burned. Stubbe's girlfriend (a distant relative) and daughter, both accused of incest, were also tortured and then burned alive. After the executions, a real wolf's body was hung in public, his head replaced with Stubbe's head as a warning to anyone else contemplating lycanthropy.</p>