September savages

Wooded area on the way to La Besseyre-Saint-Mary & Auvers

The Beast grew far bolder in September 1764, taking four victims in various communities throughout the month: at the beginning, on the 6th, on the 16th, and 26th. Two of these were teenage boys, one, a 12-year-old girl, and one, a 36-year-old woman. The three children had been attending to family cattle in separate, scattered pastures. The woman, the Beast's first adult victim, was attacked at home in her garden.