What on earth is a Loupe Garrou?
This is the single most asked question. The answer is somewhat involved in its fullest form. So, for those with a deficit in attention span, the answer is a werewolf. For those of you with nothing better to do than read my ramblings, here goes: I first encountered the term Loup Garou in Stephen King’s novel “IT”. In the book, Pennywise is at one point described as a Loup Garou. The book goes on to explain that Loup Garou is an old term for a werewolf or shape shifter. When I first read “IT” I was already fascinated by mythology, fantasy, dark fiction, horror movies, and especially werewolves and vampires. I had never come across the term Loup Garou before so I decided to do some research. Back then I had difficulty finding much information in books or online. As best I could find out, Loup Garou is of archaic Norman or Frankish French origin. The Loup part means simply wolf, (no doubt from the Latin root Lupus). Garou seems to be derived from the word garoul meaning werewolf. Thus Loup
