Thiess of Kaltenbrun
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Thiess of Kaltenbrun
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Thiess of Kaltenbrun, also spelled Thies, and commonly referred to as the Livonian werewolf, was a Livonian man who was put on trial for heresy in Jürgensburg, Swedish Livonia, in 1692.
At the time in his eighties, Thiess openly proclaimed himself to be a werewolf (wahrwolff), claiming that he ventured into Hell with other werewolves in order to do battle with the Devil and his witches. Although claiming that as a werewolf he was a "hound of God", the judges deemed him guilty of trying to turn p
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Livonian werewolf; a man tried in 1692
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiess_of_Kaltenbrun
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2023-10-31T18:56:58Z
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