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.
Rapa das Bestas Rapa das Bestas (The Capture of the Beasts) is the name of an operation that involves cutting the manes of the wild horses who live free at the mountains in a semi-feral state and that are performed in the "curros" (enclosed which retain the horses) held in various locations in Galicia (Spain). Those horses live in mountains owned by the villages (a form of property derived from the Suevi, around 8th century) and have several owners (private owners, the parish or the village), each year the foal are marked and the adults shaved and deloused, and then freed again to the mountains.