On October 31, 1589, Peter Stubbe was executed by breaking on the wheel for the crime of Lycanthropy. According to a 1590 pamphlet published in London, Stubbe was guilty of cannibalism, murder, and the terrifying/delightful crime of ‘werewolfery.’
I’m thinking lately about chimerism, the thin barriers between the human/the animal, and the fine line of normativity that holds hunger at bay in the face of a barely-suppressed ferality.