Henry Gardinn

Henry Gardinn (died in Heusden or Maastricht, 1605) was an alleged sorcerer and werewolf.

Life

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.^{[ citation needed ]}

Fiction

Henry Gardinn was used as the model for a werewolf in the series Spike and Suzy .^{[ citation needed ]}

See also

• Gilles Garnier
• Werewolf witch trials
• Valais witch trials, also a combined werewolf witch trial
• Peter Stubbe
• Werewolf of Châlons

References

1. 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.

• Fernand Vanhemelryck, Het gevecht met de duivel, Heksen in Vlaanderen, Davidsfonds Leuven, 1999, 338 p. ISBN   90 5826 031 3