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The Book of Were-Wolves

The Book of Were-Wolves

Baring-Gould, Sabine

Paperback

Series: Were-Wolves

ParanormalMythology & FolkloreGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1720793840
ISBN13: 9781720793847
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Jun 6 2018
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.30 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould. WHAT is Lycanthropy? The change of manor woman into the form of a wolf, either through magical means, so as to enable him or her to gratify the taste for human flesh, or through judgment of the gods in punishment for some great offence. This is the popular definition. Truly it consists in a form of madness, such as may be found in most asylums. Among the ancients this kind of insanity went by the names of Lycanthropy, Kuanthropy, or Boanthropy, because those afflicted with it believed themselves to be turned into wolves, dogs, or cows. But in the North of Europe, as we shall see, the shape of a bear, and in Africa that of a hyaena, were often selected in preference. A mere matter of taste! According to Marcellus Sidetes, of whose poem a fragment exists, men are attacked with this madness chiefly in the beginning of the year, and become most furious in February; retiring for the night to lone cemeteries, and living precisely in the manner of dogs and wolves.

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