There's a pretty great movie about this story; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Wolf

Is it possible it was just an escaped lion? Has a lion ever lived in the wild in France?

This is a common trope, but I do always love it when old drawings were clearly made by someone who had not seen what they were drawing. All the depicted people look very real and proportional while the “beast” is comically bad

This is a major plot device in Teen Wolf during the later seasons.

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