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THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES
Being an Account of Terrible Superstition
by SABINE BARING-GOULD
Smith, Elder & Co., London
1865
CONTENTS
CHAPTER II. LYCANTHROPY AMONG THE ANCIENTS
Definition of Lycanthropy—MarcellusSidetes—Virgil—Herodotus—Ovid—Pliny—Agriopas—Storyfrom Petronius—Arcadian Legends—Explanation offered
CHAPTER III. THE WERE-WOLF IN THE NORTH
Norse Traditions—Manner in which the Change was effected—VœlundarKvœda—Instances from the Völsung Saga—Hrolf’sSaga—Kraka—Faroëse Poem—Helga Kvida—VatnsdælaSaga—Eyrbyggja Saga
CHAPTER IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE SCANDINAVIAN WERE-WOLF
Advantage of the Study of Norse Literature—Bear and Wolf-skinDresses—The Berserkir—Their Rage—The Story ofThorir—Passages from the Aigla—The Evening Wolf—Skallagrimand his Son-Derivation of the Word “Hamr:” of“Vargr”—Laws affecting Outlaws—“To become aBoar”—Recapitulation
CHAPTER V. THE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Stories from Olaus Magnus of Livonian Were-wolves—Story from BishopMajolus—Story of Albertus Pericofcius—Similar occurrence atPrague—Saint Patrick—Strange incident related by John ofNüremberg—Bisclaveret—Courland Were-wolves—PierreVidal—Pavian Lycanthropist—Bodin’sStories—Forestus’ Account of a Lycanthropist—NeapolitanWere-wolf
CHAPTER VI. A CHAPTER OF HORRORS
Pierre Bourgot and Michel Verdung—’Me Hermit of S. Bonnot—TheGandillon Family—Thievenne Paget—The Tailor of Châlons—Roulet
On the Sand-dunes—A Wolf attacks Marguerite Poirier—Jean Grenierbrought to Trial—His Confessions—Charges of Cannibalismproved—His Sentence—Behaviour in the Monastery—Visit ofDel’ancre
CHAPTER VIII. FOLK-LORE RELATING TO WERE-WOLVES
Barrenness of English Folk-lore—Devonshire Traditions—Derivation ofWere-wolf—Cannibalism in Scotland—The Angus Robber—The Carleof Perth—French Superstitions—Norwegian Traditions—DanishTales of Were-wolves—Holstein Stories—The Werewolf in theNetherlands—Among the Greeks; the Serbs; the White Russians; the Poles;the Russians—A Russian Receipt for becoming a Were-wolf—TheBohemian Vlkodlak—Armenian Story—Indian Tales—AbyssinianBudas—American Transformation Tales—A Slovakian HouseholdTale—Similar Greek, Béarnais, and Icelandic Tales
CHAPTER IX. NATURAL CAUSES OF LYCANTHROPY
Innate Cruelty—Its Three Forms—Dumollard—AndreasBichel—A Dutch Priest—Other instances of InherentCruelty—Cruelty united to Refinement—A Hungarian Bather inBlood—Suddenness with which the Passion is developed—Cannibalism;in pregnant Women; in Maniacs—Hallucination; howProduced—Salves—The Story of Lucius—Self-deception
CHAPTER X. MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE WERE-WOLF MYTH
Metempsychosis—Sympathy between Men and Beasts—Finnbog and theBear—Osage and the Beaver—The Connexion of Soul andBody—Buddism—Case of Mr. Holloway