In the year 1603, a 13-year-old French shepherd boy called Jean-Crenier tried to impress

three teenage cowgirls by telling them he had a magic wolf skin that turned him into

a wolf. Soon Jean was hauled before the local judges on trial for being a werewolf

who had killed a number of babies, children and livestock in the region.

I'm Professor Szanelipska and in this edition of Not Just The Tudors, I'm joined by Dr.

Jan MacColson to find out more about this tragic case. One that helps us understand how

children and teenagers in the age of witch trials drew on magic and myths to help them make

sense of their own, often tragic lives. I'm very excited to have on the show today Dr.

Jan MacColson, who is senior lecturer in early modern history at Cardiff University. Jan

got his D-Fill from Aurole College Oxford. He taught at Baylil and New Colleges Oxford

before joining Cardiff. He's a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been the

recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships. He's the author of a book about the Jesuit

Martin Del Rio, who was one of the most famous demonologists of the period. It was listed

as one of history today's books of 2015. Right now he's writing a book about the Witch Hunt

of 1609 in the French Barsque Country. Today we're going to be talking about a really interesting

case that Jan has come across in his research and written about. We're going to be talking

about a teenage werewolf from 1603. Jan how did you come across this case? Well thanks

so much to Zana for having me. It's really really cool to be talking about this case. It's

one of my favorite discoveries in the archives. It's a case that was really famous at the

time. It's really different people wrote about it. I discovered a new source. Two of them

I was already aware of and then I came across a third one. Then I realized some discrepancies

between the three sources and I realized that they were all working from the original

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