Jean Chastel, a farmer and inn-keeper from Gevauden was best know for eating what man-eating gray wolf in the Margeride Mountains?
Beast of Gévaudan The Beast of Gévaudan (French: "La Bête du Gévaudan" ; ] , Occitan: "La Bèstia de Gavaudan" ) is the historical name associated with the man-eating gray wolf, dog or wolfdog which terrorized the former province of Gévaudan (modern-day "département" of Lozère and part of Haute-Loire), in the Margeride Mountains in south-central France between 1764 and 1767. The attacks, which covered an area stretching 90 by , were said to have been committed by a beast or beasts that had formidable teeth and immense tails according to contemporary eyewitnesses.
Barbegazi Barbegazi are mythical creatures from Swiss and French mythology. A variety of dwarf or gnome, a barbegazi resembles a small white-furred man with a long beard and enormous feet. They travel in the mountains that are their home by skiing with their massive feet, or using them as snowshoes. In the summer they aestivate in caves and tunnels and do not come out until the first snowfall. The word barbegazi comes from the French "barbe-glacée", meaning "frozen beard". Because of their penchant for high altitudes and low temperatures, they are rarely sighted by humans, but sometimes help shepherds round up lost sheep. Their greatest known excitement is surfing on avalanches with their remarkably large feet, but they are said to give low whistling cries to warn humans of the danger above, sometimes they will give their best effort to dig humans out from the snow.