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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Book of Were-Wolves, by Sabine Baring-GouldCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check thecopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributingthis or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this ProjectGutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit theheader without written permission.Please read the "legal small print," and other information about theeBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included isimportant information about your specific rights and restrictions inhow the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make adonation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971*******These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****Title: The Book of Were-WolvesAuthor: Sabine Baring-GouldRelease Date: March, 2004 [EBook #5324][Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule][This file was first posted on July 1, 2002]Edition: 10Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ASCII*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES ***Scanned and proofread by John B. Hare for sacred-texts.comJanuary 2002Orignal HTML version athttp://www.sacred-texts.com/goth/bow/index.htmPrepared for Project Gutenberg by Curtis WeyantJune 2002[Note: Greek text is in curly braces, i.e., {}.][Note: Italics have been indicated by an underscore character before andafter the italicized text. For example, _this is italicized text_.]
 
THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVESby SABINE BARING-GOULDCONTENTSCHAPTER IINTRODUCTORYCHAPTER IILYCANTHROPY AMONG THE ANCIENTSDefinition of Lycanthropy--MarcellusSidetes--Virgil--Herodotus--Ovid--Pliny--Agriopas--Story fromPetronius--Arcadian Legends--Explanation offeredCHAPTER IIITHE WERE-WOLF IN THE NORTHNorse Traditions--Manner in which the Change was effected--VlundarKvda--Instances from the Vlsung Saga--Hrolf's Saga--Kraka--Farose
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Poem--Helga Kvida--Vatnsdla Saga--Eyrbyggja Saga
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CHAPTER IVTHE ORIGIN OF THE SCANDINAVIAN WERE-WOLFAdvantage of the Study of Norse Literature--Bear and Wolf-skinDresses--The Berserkir--Their Rage--The Story of Thorir--Passages fromthe Aigla--The Evening Wolf--Skallagrim and his Son-Derivation of theWord "Hamr:" of "Vargr"--Laws affecting Outlaws--"To become aBoar"--RecapitulationCHAPTER VTHE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE AGESStories from Olaus Magnus of Livonian Were-wolves--Story from BishopMajolus--Story of Albertus Pericofcius--Similar occurrence atPrague--Saint Patrick--Strange incident related by John ofNremberg--Bisclaveret--Courland Were-wolves--Pierre Vidal--Pavian
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Lycanthropist--Bodin's Stories--Forestus' Account of aLycanthropist--Neapolitan Were-wolfCHAPTER VI
 
A CHAPTER OF HORRORSPierre Bourgot and Michel Verdung--'Me Hermit of S. Bonnot--TheGandillon Family--Thievenne Paget--The Tailor of Chlons--Roulet 69
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Chapter VIIJEAN GRENIEROn the Sand-dunes--A Wolf attacks Marguerite Poirier--Jean Grenierbrought to Trial--His Confessions--Charges of Cannibalism proved--HisSentence--Behaviour in the Monastery--Visit of Del'ancre 85CHAPTER VIIIFOLK-LORE RELATING TO WERE-WOLVESBarrenness of English Folk-lore--Devonshire Traditions--Derivation ofWere-wolf--Cannibalism in Scotland--The Angus Robber--The Carle ofPerth--French Superstitions--Norwegian Traditions--Danish Tales ofWere-wolves--Holstein Stories--The Werewolf in the Netherlands--Amongthe Greeks; the Serbs; the White Russians; the Poles; the Russians--ARussian Receipt for becoming a Were-wolf--The BohemianVlkodlak--Armenian Story--Indian Tales--Abyssinian Budas--AmericanTransformation Tales--A Slovakian Household Tale--Similar Greek,Barnais, and Icelandic Tales
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CHAPTER IXNATURAL CAUSES OF LYCANTHROPYInnate Cruelty--Its Three Forms--Dumollard--Andreas Bichel--A DutchPriest--Other instances of Inherent Cruelty--Cruelty united toRefinement--A Hungarian Bather in Blood--Suddenness with which thePassion is developed--Cannibalism; in pregnant Women; inManiacs--Hallucination; how Produced--Salves--The Story ofLucius--Self-deception 130CHAPTER XMYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE WERE-WOLF MYTHMetempsychosis--Sympathy between Men and Beasts--Finnbog and theBear--Osage and the Beaver--The Connexion of Soul andBody--Buddism--Case of Mr. Holloway--Popular ideas concerning theBody--The derivation of the German Leichnam--FeatherDresses--Transmigration of Souls--A Basque Story--Story from thePantschatantra--Savage ideas regarding Natural Phenomena--Thunder,Lightning, and Cloud--The origin of the Dragon--John of Bromton'sDragon a Waterspout--The Legend of Typhoeus--Allegorizing of theEffects of a Hurricane--Anthropomorphosis--The Cirrus Cloud, aHeavenly Swan--Urvaci--The Storm-cloud a Daemon--Vritra andRakschasas--Story of a Brahmin and a RakschasasCHAPTER XITHE MARCHAL DE REZT I: THE INVESTIGATION OF CHARGES
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