Gratian The Real life Romanian Werewolf

The people in Izbuc a village in the Romanian Carpathian mountains Transylvania think that their fellow villager Gratian Florea is a werewolf According to an old custom when a child is born the midwifes call upon the spirits to make the child hard working beautiful loveable or wise It is said that when Gratian was born the umbilical cord broke only after the midwife called forth the werewolf This crucial moment was to influence his whole life