NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Ever heard the legend of Loup Garou?
Cover your eyes and ears if a good ghost story gives you the chills.
Loup Garou is a Cajun werewolf. The legend is, he likes to eat children. Well, he likes to eat bad children.
That’s the legend. That’s the story from Jacques Rodrigue.
As Jacques tells the tale to WGNO News with a Twist features guy Wild Bill Wood, Wild Bill is looking at a painting of Loup Garou that looks a little too blue. In fact, he looks a lot blue. A lot like Blue Dog.
That’s maybe because the painting of Loup Garou is by Louisiana artist George Rodrigue.
He’s the Blue Dog artist and he’s Jacques Rodrigue’s dad. George died a few years ago. But he left his son, and the world, a legacy and a lot of paintings that include this painting of Loup Garou.
Loup Garou inspired Blue Dog as you’ll see and hear in Wild Bill’s story about ghost stories.
George Rodrigue painted 40 Louisiana ghost stories. They’re together now for the first time ever.
You can see them hanging at the George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts office in New Orleans.
In fact, the ghost story paintings will be part of White Linen Night on Saturday, August 6.
And they’ll be up for you to see at the Foundation for a while.
