Cultes des Goules

Cultes des Goules
Set
Call of the Wild
Type	Subtype
Exploration	Tome
Card Text
Action: Test Intellect −1. Pass: Take 1 horror, discard this card, and gain a "Levitation" Spell card. Fail: Nothing happens.

EE-56: Cultes des Goules [U]
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Type		Subtype
Support		Tome
Faction		Cost
Miskatonic University		1
Card Text
Response: after a character you control is restored, pay 1 to attach Cultes des Goules to that character. Attached character gains Willpower and .

Cultes des Goules is an Exploration Card that appears in the Mansions of Madness First Edition Call of the Wild, and a Support Card that appears in the Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game Eldritch Edition.

Artwork

EE-56 uses an illustration by Marc Simonetti.

Mythos

The Cultes des Goules first appeared in the story The Suicide in the Study (Robert Bloch, 1935).

The Cultes des Goules is a book dealing principally with a Parisian ghoul-cult. The author was Antoine-Marie Augustin de Montmorency-les-Roches, Comte d'Erlette, a French nobleman of occult leanings who became involved in the Affair of the Poisoners, in which high-ranking nobles were accused of murder and black magic. The group circulated copies of the book in manuscript, but never published it. A later Comte of the same line, Francois Honore-Balfour, found the book, expanded it, and had it published at his own expense in 1703.

In this book, the Comte speaks of his membership in a ghoul-cult, and gives a set of prophecies concerning its future. Along with this appear descriptions of pagan fertility rites dedicated to the earth-deities, some of which have survived to the present. Also mentioned are Nyogtha, Shub-Niggurath (whom the book links to lycanthropy), and tales of the Yeti, for which no clear explanation is given. At least one authority, however, has stated that this book is more fancy than fact.