Research: The Representation of Werewolves in the 18th Century

Throughout this century there has been a building awareness of werewolves which has been sparked or been spread with the help of fairytales and heresay. The one that stood out to me the most happened at the end of the century. I feel like I can use this to help base when I would set my scene...               

1795 F - A Meteor strikes near Wold Newton in Yorkshire, England on December 13, 1795, resulting in a series of benevolent mutations in the bloodlines of those present.  Among the affected is Louis Lupin, a coachman and latent lycanthrope.  (This factual meteor has been used as the entire basis for the "Wold Newton Universe" concept first popularized by author Philip José Farmer in Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life. Further, Jean-Marc Lofficier has expanded upon the effect this had on the Lupin line in his article The Conspiracy.)              
 - Grigori Russoff is inflicted with lycanthropy while defending his wife Louisa from Dracula. The Russoff family bears the curse, even though Grigori's children had already been born at the time of the attack. [WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, Marvel Comics] (Please note that this report has been placed into dispute by recent sources suggesting that the Russoff lineage does not possess lycanthropy at all, and only the adoption of John Lawrence Talbot by Baron Ivor Russoff in the 1940s connects them.  See later entries on this timeline, taken from Chuck Loridan's MONSTAAH timeline, for this Wold Newton interpretation.) 
http://www.therianthropes.com/were_fiction_timeline.htm   

A few good key points from this text is that it involves other mythical beings such as Dracula, also the fact that they tell you that it may all be false only makes you think it could be more true. I can use this idea for my main synopsis. Whereby the main character doesn't want to believe even though all the signs are telling her too. Also I like the term "Lycanthorpe" which is what the Werewolves are called in Underworld. I feel that I might bring it in once or twice in the story but it feels to old school traditional for my film, perhaps it can be used when the main character is given a history about the beasts that killed her father.