The Beast of Gévaudan is the historical name associated with one or more man-eating animals that terrorised the former province of Gévaudan (consisting of the present-day department of Lozère and part of the Haute-Loire, as well as the Auvergne and southern Dordogne) in the Margeride mountains of south-central France between 1764 and 1767. The attacks, which covered an area of 90 by 80 kilometres, were committed by one or more beasts with formidable teeth and a huge tail, according to witnesses of the time. Most descriptions of the time identify the beast as a striped hyena, a wolf, a dog or a wolf-dog hybrid.
Victims were often killed by having their throats ripped out. The Kingdom of France used considerable financial and human resources to hunt the animals responsible, including the resources of several nobles, soldiers, royal hunters and civilians. The number of victims differs according to the sources. A 1987 study estimates that there were 610 attacks, resulting in 500 deaths and 49 injuries; 98 of the victims killed were partially eaten. Other sources state that the beast(s) killed between 60 and 100 adults and children and injured more than 30. The beast was reportedly killed several times before the attacks finally stopped.
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Contents of the box : 1 board, 5 wooden silhouettes, 30 village cards, 5 beast identity cards, 5 track tokens, 1 wanderer marker, 25 blood drops, 5 individual boards, 24 event cards, 7 meeples, 6 mini-meeples, 1 rule book.
