Silver Bullets for false teachers
The most feared region of France from 1764-67 was the province of Gévaudan. An area of about 80 km2 in the Margeride Mountains became known as the attack zone of a mythical creature called La Bête du Gévaudan, the Beast of Gévaudan. The beast was widely rumored to resemble a wolf, except that it was not grey, but red with black streaks. It was described as being as tall as a man, with a massive, bushy black tail, ferocious teeth, and a chin that was always stained with blood. In a space of two years, there had been 210 attacks on humans, with 113 dead and 49 injured. And 98 of the victims had been partially eaten. Eventually, the crown got involved and King Louis XV commissioned two professional hunters, Jean d’Enneval and his son Jean-Francois to find and kill the beast. They killed dozens of grey wolves, but the attacks continued, so in 1765 King Louis replaced them with a man reputed to be the best hunter in France: Francois Antoine. Sure enough, on 20 September 1765 Antoine tracked