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The Timeline of the Werewolf

75,000 BC - Earliest human altars, including evidence of prehistoric bear-cult.

10,000 BC - Domestication of dog

6,000 BC - Catal Huyuk cave-drawings depict leopard men hunting

2,000 BC - Epic of Gilamesh written down (first literary evidence of werewolves)

850 BC - Odyssey written down (includes many traces of werewolf beliefs)

500 BC - Scythians recorded as believing the Neuri to be werewolves.

400 BC - Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won boxing medal at Olympics

100 - 75 BC - Virgil's eighth ecologue (first voluntary transformation of werewolf)

55 AD - Petronius, Satyricon

150 AD - Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed

170 AD - Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites

432 AD - St. Patrick arrives in Ireland

600 AD - Saint Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves

617 AD - Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks

650 AD - Paulus Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia"

900 AD - Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian Army

      Canon Episcopi condems the belief in reality of witches as heretical

1020 - First use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English

1101 - Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian werewolf

1182 - 1183 - Giraldus claims to have discovered Irish werewolf couple

1194 - 1197 - Guillaume de Palerne composed

1198 - Marie de France composes Bisclavret

1250 - Lai de Melion composed

1275 - 1300 - Volsungasaga, Germanic werewolf saga, written down

1344 - Wolf child of Hesse discovered

1347 - 1351 - First major outbreak of the Black Death

1407 - Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel

1450 - Else of Meerburg accused of riding a wolf

1486 - Malleus Maleficarum published

1494 - Swiss woman tried for riding a wolf

1495 - Woman tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne

1521 - Werewolves of Poligny burnt

1541 - Paduan werewolf dies after having arms and legs cut off

1550 - Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga Johann Weyer takes up post of doctor at Cleve

1552 - Modern French version of Guillaume published at Lyon

1555 - Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves

1560 - First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis

1563 - First publication of Weyer, De praestigus daemonum

1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day of Massacre, intensification of French civil war

1573 - Gilles Garnier burnt as werewolf

1575 - Trials of the benandanti begin in the Friuili (and will continue for a century)

1580 - Rebellion at Romans with cannibalistic overtones

1584 - Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published

1588 - Alleged date of Auvergne female werewolf (Boguet)

1589 - Peter Stubb executed as werewolf at Cologne

1598 - Roulet tried as werewolf, his sentence commuted

           "Werewolf of Chalons" executed at Paris

           Gandillon family burnt as werewolves in the Jura

1602 - 2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorciers

1603 - Jean Grenier tried as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment

1610 - Two women condemned as werewolves at Liege

           Jean Grenier dies

1614 - Webster's Duchess of Malfi published

1637 - Famine in Franche-Comte: cannibalism reported

1652 - Cromwellian law forbids export of Irish wolfhounds

1692 - The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated

1697 - Perrault's Contes includes "Little Red Riding Hood"

1701 - De Tournefort sees vampire exhumation

1764 - Bete de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne

1796 - 1799 - Widespread fear of wolves reported in France

1797 - Victor of Aveyron first seen

1806 - French population falls below 2000

1812 - Grimm Brothers publish their version of "Little Red Riding Hood"

1824 - Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to lunatic asylum

1828 - Death of Victor of Averyon

1830 - Souix warriors reported hunting in wolfskins

1857 - Accusation of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais

           G. W. M. Reynolds, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf published

1880 - Folklorist collects werewolf tale in Picardy

1885 - Johann Weyer's book reprinted at Paris

1886 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published

1906 - Freud lists Weyer's book as among ten most significant ever published

1913 - The Werewolf (movie) using real wolf in transformation scene

1914 - Freud publishes "wolf man" paper

1920 - Kamala and Amala, the Orissa wolf children, discovered

           Right-wing terror group "Operation Werewolf" established in Germany

1932 - Jekyll & Hyde (movie) starring Frederic March

1935 - Werewolf of London (movie)

1941 - Wolf Man (movie) starring Lon Chaney Jr.

1943 - 1944 - Childhood autism first described

                       LSD discovered

1944 - House of Frankenstein (movie) includes mention of silver bullet

1951 - Outbreak of ergotism at Pont-Saint-Esprit

1952 - Ogburn & Bose, On the trail of the Wolf-Children published

1957 - I Was a Teenage Werewolf (movie)

1972 - Shamdeo discovered living among wolves in India

1975 - Surawicz & Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy

1979 - An American Werewolf in London (movie) includes first four-footed werewolf

1985 - Death of Shamdeo

           Teen Wolf (movie)

1988 - Monsieur X arrested

           McLean Hospital survey published

1990 - "Werewolf rapist" jailed

            McLean Case 8 full report published

1991 - "The Wolfman" escapes from Broadmoor

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