“First, that one Garner in the shape of a woolfe killed a girle of the age of twelve yeares, and did eat up hir armes and legges, and carried the rest home to his wife. Item, that Peter Burget and Michael Werdon, having turned themselves with an ointment into woolves, killed, and finallie did eate up an infinite number of people.”
—Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft, Booke V, Chapter I
“[T]hey were scattered on the west, and on the north, until they had reached the wilderness, which was called Hermounts; and it was that part of the wilderness which was infested by wild and ravenous beasts.”
—The Book of Mormon, Alma 2:37