{"collection":"Gothic & Horror Fiction","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/goth/bow/bow01.htm","path":"goth/bow/bow01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/goth/bow/bow01.htm","text":"The Book of Were-Wolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould, [1865]\nCHAPTER I\nINTRODUCTORY 1\nCHAPTER II\nLYCANTHROPY AMONG THE ANCIENTS\nDefinition of Lycanthropy--Marcellus Sidetes--Virgil--Herodotus--Ovid--Pliny--Agriopas--Story from Petronius--Arcadian Legends--Explanation offered 8\nCHAPTER III\nTHE WERE-WOLF IN THE NORTH\nNorse Traditions--Manner in which the Change was effected--V\u0153lundar Kv\u0153da--Instances from the V\u00f6lsung Saga--Hrolf's Saga--Kraka--Faro\u00ebse Poem--Helga Kvida--Vatnsd\u00e6la Saga--Eyrbyggja Saga 15\nCHAPTER IV\nTHE ORIGIN OF THE SCANDINAVIAN WERE-WOLF\nAdvantage of the Study of Norse Literature--Bear and Wolf-skin Dresses--The Berserkir--Their Rage--The Story of Thorir--Passages from the Aigla--The Evening Wolf--Skallagrim and his Son-Derivation of the Word \"Hamr:\" of \"Vargr\"--Laws affecting Outlaws--\"To become a Boar\"--Recapitulation 34\nCHAPTER V\nTHE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE AGES\nStories from Olaus Magnus of Livonian Were-wolves--Story from Bishop Majolus--Story of Albertus Pericofcius--Similar occurrence at Prague--Saint Patrick--Strange incident related by John of N\u00fcremberg--Bisclaveret--Courland Were-wolves--Pierre Vidal--Pavian Lycanthropist--Bodin's Stories--Forestus' Account of a Lycanthropist--Neapolitan Were-wolf 53\nCHAPTER VI\nA CHAPTER OF HORRORS\nPierre Bourgot and Michel Verdung--'Me Hermit of S. Bonnot--The Gandillon Family--Thievenne Paget--The Tailor of Ch\u00e2lons--Roulet 69\nChapter VII\nJEAN GRENIER\nOn the Sand-dunes--A Wolf attacks Marguerite Poirier--Jean Grenier brought to Trial--His Confessions--Charges of Cannibalism proved--His Sentence--Behaviour in the Monastery--Visit of Del'ancre 85\nCHAPTER VIII\nFOLK-LORE RELATING TO WERE-WOLVES\nBarrenness of English Folk-lore--Devonshire Traditions--Derivation of Were-wolf--Cannibalism in Scotland--The Angus Robber--The Carle of Perth--French Superstitions--Norwegian Traditions--Danish Tales of Were-wolves--Holstein Stories--The Werewolf in the Netherlands--Among the Greeks; the Serbs; the White Russians; the Poles; the Russians--A Russian Receipt for becoming a Were-wolf--The Bohemian Vlkodlak--Armenian Story--Indian Tales--Abyssinian Budas--American Transformation Tales--A Slovakian Household Tale--Similar Greek, B\u00e9arnais, and Icelandic Tales 100\nCHAPTER IX\nNATURAL CAUSES OF LYCANTHROPY\nInnate Cruelty--Its Three Forms--Dumollard--Andreas Bichel--A Dutch Priest--Other instances of Inherent Cruelty--Cruelty united to Refinement--A Hungarian Bather in Blood--Suddenness with which the Passion is developed--Cannibalism; in pregnant Women; in Maniacs--Hallucination; how Produced--Salves--The Story of Lucius--Self-deception 130\nCHAPTER X\nMYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE WERE-WOLF MYTH\nMetempsychosis--Sympathy between Men and Beasts--Finnbog and the Bear--Osage and the Beaver--The Connexion of Soul and Body--Buddism--Case of Mr. Holloway--Popular ideas concerning the Body--The derivation of the German Leichnam--Feather Dresses--Transmigration of Souls--A Basque Story--Story from the Pantschatantra--Savage ideas regarding Natural Phenomena--Thunder, Lightning, and Cloud--The origin of the Dragon--John of Bromton's Dragon a Waterspout--The Legend of Typhoeus--Allegorizing of the Effects of a Hurricane--Anthropomorphosis--The Cirrus Cloud, a Heavenly Swan--Urvaci--The Storm-cloud a Daemon--Vritra and Rakschasas--Story of a Brahmin and a Rakschasas 153\nCHAPTER XI\nTHE MAR\u00c9CHAL DE REZT I: THE INVESTIGATION OF CHARGES\nIntroduction--History of Gilles de Laval--The Castle of Machecoul--Surrender of the Marshal--Examination of Witnesses--Letter of De Retz--The Duke of Brittany reluctant to move--The Bishop of Nantes 181\nCHAPTER XII\nTHE MAR\u00c9CHAL DE REZT II: THE TRIAL\nThe Appearance of the Marshal--Pierre de l'Hospital--The Requisition--The Trial adjourned--Meeting of the Marshal and his Servants--The Confession of Henriet--Pontou persuaded to confess all--The adjourned Trial not hurried on--The hesitation of the Duke of Brittany 207\nCHAPTER XIII\nMAR\u00c9CHAL DE RETZ III: THE SENTENCE AND EXECUTION\nThe adjourned Trial--The Marshal Confesses--The Case handed over to the Ecclesiastical Tribunal--Prompt steps taken by the Bishop--The Sentence--Ratified by the Secular Court--The Execution 226\nCHAPTER XIV\nA GALICIAN WERE-WOLF\nThe Inhabitants of Austrian Galicia--The Hamlet of Polomyja--Summer Evening in the Forest--The Beggar Swiatek--A Girl disappears--A School-boy vanishes--A Servant-girl lost--Another Boy carried of--The Discovery made by the Publican of Polomyja--Swiatek locked up--Brought to Dabkow--Commits suicide 238\nChapter XV\nANOMALOUS CASE--THE HUMAN HYENA\nGhouls--Story from Fornari--Quotation from Apuleius--Incident mentioned by Marcassus--Cemeteries of Paris violated--Discovery of Violator--Confession of M. Bertrand 250\nCHAPTER XVI\nA SERMON ON WERE-WOLVES\nThe Discourses of Dr. Johann--The Sermon--Remarks 261","title":"The Book of Were-Wolves: Contents","type":"page"}