Henry Gardinn
Henry Gardinn (died in Heusden or Maastricht, 1605) was an alleged sorcerer and werewolf.
Life
[edit]Gardinn originated from Limburg.
In 1605, he was charged with witchcraft by being a werewolf. He was accused of having transformed himself to a wolf together with two other men, one of whom was Jan Le Loup. Gardinn made a statement of confession that the three men had attacked, murdered and eaten a child in the shape of wolves.
Gardinn was judged guilty of witchcraft for being a werewolf, and was sentenced to burning at the stake by a Dutch court in Limburg.[1]
The execution took place in either Heusden or in Maastricht. His alleged accomplice Jan Le Loup left the parish, was apprehended two years later, and executed as well.
Fiction
[edit]Henry Gardinn was used as the model for a werewolf in the series Spike and Suzy.
See also
[edit]- Gilles Garnier
- Werewolf witch trials
- Valais witch trials, also a combined werewolf witch trial
- Peter Stubbe
- Werewolf of Châlons
References
[edit]- Fernand Vanhemelryck, Het gevecht met de duivel, Heksen in Vlaanderen, Davidsfonds Leuven, 1999, 338 p. ISBN 90 5826 031 3
- ^ Plukowski, Aleksander (2015). "Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape-Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe". Werewolf Histories. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-349-58049-1.