Editing Silver bullet (section)

==In folklore==
Some authors asserted that the idea of the [[werewolf]]'s supposed vulnerability to [[bullet]]s cast from [[silver]] dates back to the [[Beast of Gévaudan]], a [[man-eating animal|man-eating]] animal killed by the hunter [[Jean Chastel]] in the year 1767.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robert |last=Jackson |year=1995 |title=Witchcraft and the Occult |publisher=Devizes, Quintet Publishing |page=25 |isbn=1-85348-888-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Brad |last=Steiger |year=2011 |title=The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=258 |isbn=978-1578593675}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Cynthia A. |last=Roby |year=2015 |title=Werewolves (Creatures of Fantasy) |publisher=Cavendish Square |page=37 |isbn=978-1502605108}}</ref> However, the allegations of Chastel purportedly using a gun loaded with silver bullets are derived from a distorted detail<ref>{{cite book |language=fr |first1=Benoît |last1=Baud'huin |first2=Alain |last2=Bonet |year=1995 |title=Gévaudan: petites histoires de la grande bête |publisher=Ex Aequo Éditions |page=193 |isbn=978-2-37873-070-3}}</ref> based primarily on [[Henri Pourrat]]'s ''Histoire fidèle de la bête en Gévaudan'' (1946). In this novel, the French writer imagines that the beast was shot thanks to medals of the [[Virgin Mary]], worn by Jean Chastel in his hat and then melted down to make bullets.<ref>{{cite book |language=fr |first=Guy |last=Crouzet |year=2001 |title=La grande peur du Gévaudan |publisher=Guy Crouzet |pages=156–158 |isbn=2-9516719-0-3}}</ref> 

An account of a [[Jämtland|Jämte]] about were-bears in 1936 describes bullets of silver as the method of killing.<ref>Ella Odstedt 2004: Norrländsk folktradition. Uppsala. s. 147</ref> Swedish folklore tends to describe silver bullets as a catch-all weapon against creatures, as wizards or the [[skogsrå]], that are "hard" against regular ammunition.<ref>Finlands svenska folkdiktning II 3:2, s. 330</ref><ref>Sven Rothman 1941: Östgötska folkminnen. Uppsala. s.41</ref> 

In the [[Brothers Grimm]] fairy-tale of ''[[The Two Brothers]]'', a bullet-proof witch is shot down by silver buttons, fired from a gun.

In some epic folk songs about [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] rebel leader [[Delyo]], he is described as invulnerable to normal weapons, driving his enemies to cast a silver bullet in order to murder him.<ref name="narodna">{{cite book |last=Стойкова |first=Стефана |title=Българска народна поезия и проза в седем тома. |publisher=ЕИ "LiterNet" |location=Варна |volume=Т. III. Хайдушки и исторически песни |chapter=Дельо хайдутин |isbn=978-954-304-232-6 |url=http://liternet.bg/folklor/sbornici/bnpp/haidushki/content.htm |chapter-url=http://liternet.bg/folklor/sbornici/bnpp/haidushki/58.htm |language=bg}}</ref>