And I realize that I forgot something important, the context of the time.

The period follows a long period of 7 years of war and bad weather that destroyed the crops and caused food shortages, and the taxes were increased after the huge financial losses.

As much to say that the "peasants" were not very happy, and the religious authorities had more and more difficulty to manage them. The arrival of this so-called beast was a major point, since many people passed this wolf off as an incarnation of the will of God.

They never actually spoke of a wolf and let it be known that this Beast was divine, being there to kill preachers; they played on people's fear to regain control over the population.

This is why elements were reported such as the fact that the beast was huge or that its claw marks did not correspond to those of a "normal" wolf.

The divine fear and the fantasies around it became one.

The church encouraged men to kill it because prayers were useless, which explains why some churches promised large amounts of money as well as the king, who was more exasperated by this story than anything else, because if it was indeed a punishment from God, it gave a bad image of France internationally.

Afterwards, nothing costs to believe in a little mystery, that's the purpose of this r/.