True crime · 1696
A pack of eleven werewolves at Vastemõisa
Üksteist libahunti Vastemõisa metsades
In Swedish-era Estonia a charge of witchcraft very often took the form of a werewolf case: at least eighteen such trials are known between 1527 and 1725. In 1696 a girl called Greta, daughter of Titza Thomas, told the court that in the woods around Vastemõisa a whole pack of eleven werewolves went hunting together, and she named a man called Libbe Matz as their leader. What became of him and the others is not recorded. The manor that gave the area its name still stands north of Viljandi.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Rootsi aja Eestis võttis nõiasüüdistus väga sageli libahundiprotsessi kuju: aastatest 1527–1725 on teada vähemalt kaheksateist sellist kohtuasja. 1696. aastal rääkis Titza Thomase tütar Greta kohtus, et Vastemõisa ümbruse metsades käis jahil terve üheteistkümnest libahundist koosnev kari, ja nimetas nende juhiks mehe nimega Libbe Matz. Mis temast ja teistest sai, pole teada. Mõis, mille järgi ümbrus nime kannab, seisab tänini Viljandist põhja pool.
Source: English Wikipedia: Werewolf witch trials (after Maia Madar's study of Estonian witch trials) ↗