POWERWOLF - 1589 (Official Video) | Napalm Records - YouTube
@Girl Of The Sea
First time I heard about the gruesome story behind this song.
The werewolf of Bedburg.
https://insidehistory.substack.com/p/peter-stumpp-the-werewolf-of-bedburg
Faced with being stretched on the excruciating rack, Stumpp confessed to practising lycanthropy, sorcery, and necromancy since the age of 12. He indulged the magistrates by detailing how the devil had appeared to him and gifted him a girdle a few years later. The belt possessed magical properties, which enabled him to transform into the Werewolf of Bedburg. He admitted to using this girdle to commit many atrocities in the form of a wolf, including at least 16 murders, the rape of young women and acts of incest concerning his sister and daughter whom he “begat a childe”. The girdle mentioned was never recovered and Stumpp confessed to discarding the girdle upon apprehension and returning it to the devil.
