Old Thiess: The True & Hellish Case of the Livonian Werewolf | Documentary

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In October 1691, a man confessed before the judges of Jürgensburg in Swedish Livonia that he was a werewolf. Known as Old Thiess, the eighty year old man claimed to have been a “hound of God” who “entered Hell at certain times of the year, not to serve Satan - as the judges insisted - but to fight him”. And so, far from being a monster, some manner of dark cryptid creature, he was a vehicle of divinity…

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