09 - PD Goth by Various

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Section nine of p D. Goth This is a LibriVox recording.
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Wolves of Detroit by Charles M. Skinner. Long were the
shores of Detroit vexed by the snake god of belle
Isle and his children. The witches, for the latter sold
enchantments and were the terror of good people. Jacques Morand,
the Courur du Bois, was in love with Jean Villees Prarent,

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but she disliked him and wished only to serve the
church courting. Having proved of no avail, he resolved on
force when she had decided to enter a convent, and
he went to one of the witches who served as
devil's agent, to sell his soul. The witch accepted the
slight commodity and paid for it with a grant of
power to change from a man's form to that of

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a werewolf or loup garoux, that he might the easier
bear away his victim. Incautiously, he followed her to gross Point,
where an image of the virgin had been set up,
and as Jean Vieve dropped at the feet of the
statue to implore aid, the wolf, as he leaped to
her side, was suddenly turned to stone. Harder was the

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fate of another maiden, Arcane Simonet, for she was seized
by a werewolf at this place and hurried away while
dancing at her own wedding. The bridegroom devoted his life
to the search for her and finally lost his reason.
But he prosecuted the hunt so vengefully and shrewdly that
he always found assistance. One of the neighbors cut off

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the wolf's tail with a silver bullet, the appendage being
for many years preserved by the Indians. The lover finally
came upon the creature and chased it to the shore,
where its footprint is still seen in one of the boulders,
but it leaped into the water and disappeared. In his
crazy fancy, the lover declared that it had jumped down

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the throat of a catfish, and that is why the
French Canadians have a prejudice against catfish as an article
of diet. The man wolf dared as much for gain
as for love on the night that Jean Chicot got
the Indians drunk and bore off their beaver skins. The
wood witches known as the white Women, fell upon him

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and tore a part of his treasure from him, while
a werewolf pounced so hard on his back that he
lost more. He drove the creatures to a little distance,
but was glad to be safe inside of the fort again,
though the officers laughed at him and called him a coward.
When they went back over the route with him, they
were astonished to find the grass scorch where the women

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had fled before him, and little springs in the turf
showed where they had been swallowed up. Sulfur water was
bubbling from the spot where the wolf dived into the
earth when the trader's rosary fell out of his jacket.
Belle Fontaine, the spot was called long afterward end of
section nine, that is the end of p. D. Goth