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by Sabine Baring-Gould
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ISBN: 0486449963 Dover Publications Price: $7.95 |
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With the shocking histories of 10 famous cases, this classic blends science, superstition, and fiction to tell the full story of the werewolves among us. The first serious academic study of lycanthropy and "blood-lust" written in English, this book draws upon a vast body of observation, myth, and lore.
Table of Contents for The Book of Werewolves
| I. Introductory | |||||||
| II. Lycanthropy among the Ancients | |||||||
| III. The Were-wolf in the North | |||||||
| IV. The Origin of the Scandinavian Were-wolf | |||||||
| V. The Were-wolf in the Middle Ages | |||||||
| VI. A Chapter of Horrors | |||||||
| VII. Jean Grenier | |||||||
| VIII. Folk-Lore Relating to Were-wolves | |||||||
| IX. Natural Causes of Lycanthropy | |||||||
| X. Mythological Origin of the Were-wolf Myth | |||||||
| XI. The Maréchal de Retz--I. The Investigation of Charges | |||||||
| XII. The Maréchal de Retz--II. The Trial | |||||||
| XIII. The Maréchal de Retz--III. The Sentence and Execution | |||||||
| XIV. A Galician Were-wolf | |||||||
| XV. Anomalous Case--The Human Hyæna | |||||||
| XVI. A Sermon on Were-wolves |