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A Lycanthropy reader : werewolves in Western culture

Drawing on primary sources, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive survey of all aspects of lycanthropy, with a focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods
Print Book, English, 1986
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y., 1986
xvi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780815623830, 9780815623847, 0815623836, 0815623844
13902979
A case of lycanthropy / Harvey A. Rosenstock and Kenneth R. Vincent
Lycanthropy revisited / Frida G. Surawicz and Richard Banta
Admirable histories / I. Goulart
Diseases of the mind / Robert Burton
A treatise / Robert Bayfield
A wolf which conversed with a priest / Giraldus Cambrensis
Jean Grenier, a French werewolf / retold by Sabine Baring-Gould
Stubble Peter
Of the metamorphosis of men into beasts / Henry Boguet
British werewolves / Elliott O'Donnell
Whether witches can by some glamour change men into beasts / Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger
Of transformations / Reginald Scot
Men-woolfes / James I
Spirits and devils / John Deacon and John Walker
Shape-changing in the Old Norse sagas / H.R. Ellis Davison
Witchcraft in France and Switzerland / E. William Monter
The scientific status of demonology / Stuart Clark
On porphyria and the aetiology of werwolves / L. Illis
The medical origins of the European witch craze: a hypothesis / Leland L. Estes
Lycaon and Jupiter / Ovid
Niceros's story / Petronius
Arthur and Gorlagon / Rawlinson MS
The lay of the were-wolf / Marie de France
The werewolf / Eugene Field
"The other side": a Breton legend / Eric Stenbock
The were-wolf / Clemence Housman
"Medical cases, diagnoses, descriptions; trial records, historical accounts, sightings; philosophical and theological approaches to metamorphosis; critical essays on lycanthropy; myths and legends; allegory."