Jacques Roulet

<p>1598: Jacques Roulet

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Auric/Jacques_Roulet" target="blank">Jacques Roulet</a> became known as "The Werewolf of Angers" or "The Werewolf of Caud" after two nearby towns in France. According to an 1865 account, a mutilated teenage boy was found in the woods with wolves spotted nearby. Then Roulet was found wounded and half-naked not far away. He was arrested and confessed to the murder. Roulet also said he was given a salve that transformed him into a wolf and had murdered and eaten others. Unlike other cases, there appears to be no clear record of Roulet having been tortured into making a confession, and he did not confess to <a href="http://jimmcneill.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/werewolves-in-the-touraine-the-case-of-jacques-roulet/" target="blank">making a deal with the devil</a>. Roulet was sentenced to death for murder, lycanthropy, and cannibalism, but after an appeal he was <a href="http://www.werewolves.com/jacques-roulet-werewolf-or-just-plain-crazy/" target="blank">judged as mentally ill</a> or "feeble-minded" and instead committed to an insane asylum for two years.1598: Jacques Roulet

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Auric/Jacques_Roulet" target="blank">Jacques Roulet</a> became known as "The Werewolf of Angers" or "The Werewolf of Caud" after two nearby towns in France. According to an 1865 account, a mutilated teenage boy was found in the woods with wolves spotted nearby. Then Roulet was found wounded and half-naked not far away. He was arrested and confessed to the murder. Roulet also said he was given a salve that transformed him into a wolf and had murdered and eaten others. Unlike other cases, there appears to be no clear record of Roulet having been tortured into making a confession, and he did not confess to <a href="http://jimmcneill.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/werewolves-in-the-touraine-the-case-of-jacques-roulet/" target="blank">making a deal with the devil</a>. Roulet was sentenced to death for murder, lycanthropy, and cannibalism, but after an appeal he was <a href="http://www.werewolves.com/jacques-roulet-werewolf-or-just-plain-crazy/" target="blank">judged as mentally ill</a> or "feeble-minded" and instead committed to an insane asylum for two years.</p>