![]() ![]() I shall never forget the walk I took one night in Vienne, after having accomplished the examination of an unknown Druidical relic, the Pierre labie, at La Rondelle, near Champigni. THE INVESTIGATION OF CHARGES.ĬHAPTER XII. ![]() MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE WERE-WOLF MYTH.ĬHAPTER XI. FOLK-LORE RELATING TO WERE-WOLVES.ĬHAPTER IX. THE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE-AGES.ĬHAPTER VIII. THE ORIGIN OF THE SCANDINAVIAN WERE-WOLF.ĬHAPTER V. LYCANTHROPY AMONG THE ANCIENTS.ĬHAPTER IV. The book is valuable to academics, those interested in folklore, and any wishing to learn more about the occult. ![]() Baring-Gould’s study on werewolves successfully manages to compress an enormous span of historical material into his work. He described the wolf-man transformation as the result of malevolent witchcraft and presented shapeshifting as a common, demonic practice. The terror of werewolves reached a climax in the late Middle Ages when Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) linked the creatures to religious heresy, Satanism, and witchcraft. Legends of wolf-men exist in the beliefs of almost all peoples and cultures. Sabine Baring-Gould THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES ![]()
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