{"collection":"Gothic Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_bow_bow04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_goth_bow_bow04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_goth_bow_bow04_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/goth/bow/bow04.htm","summary":"Norse 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\nIN Norway and Iceland certain men were said to be eigi einhamir, not of one skin, an idea which had its roots in paganism. The full form of this strange superstition was, that men could take upon them other bodies, and the natures of those beings whose bodies they assumed. The second adopted shape was\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Book of Were-Wolves: Chapter III. The Were-Wolf in th...","tradition":"Gothic Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":4132}