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Sabine Baring-Gould's history of lycanthropy — the werewolf in classical and northern lore, and the trials and cases of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

SUBJECTSWerewolvesFolkloreTrials
TAGS#baring-gould#werewolf#lycanthropy#trials

CONTENTS · 16

  1. 1CHAPTER I — INTRODUCTORY5 MIN
  2. 2CHAPTER II — LYCANTHROPY AMONG THE ANCIENTS5 MIN
  3. 3CHAPTER III — THE WERE-WOLF IN THE NORTH16 MIN
  4. 4CHAPTER IV — THE ORIGIN OF THE SCANDINAVIAN WERE-WOLF15 MIN
  5. 5CHAPTER V — THE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE-AGES12 MIN
  6. 6CHAPTER VI — A CHAMBER OF HORRORS13 MIN
  7. 7CHAPTER VII — JEAN GRENIER11 MIN
  8. 8CHAPTER VIII — FOLK-LORE RELATING TO WERE-WOLVES24 MIN
  9. 9CHAPTER IX — NATURAL CAUSES OF LYCANTHROPY17 MIN
  10. 10CHAPTER X — MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE WERE-WOLF MYTH22 MIN
  11. 11CHAPTER XI — THE MARÉCHAL DE RETZ.—I. THE INVESTIGATION OF CHARGES20 MIN
  12. 12CHAPTER XII — THE MARÉCHAL DE RETZ.—II. THE TRIAL15 MIN
  13. 13CHAPTER XIII — MARÉCHAL DE RETZ.—III. THE SENTENCE AND EXECUTION9 MIN
  14. 14CHAPTER XIV — A GALICIAN WERE-WOLF9 MIN
  15. 15CHAPTER XV — ANOMALOUS CASE.—THE HUMAN HYÆNA8 MIN
  16. 16CHAPTER XVI — A SERMON ON WERE -WOLVES4 MIN

THE TEXT

Text of the Project Gutenberg edition (The Book of Were-Wolves). Taken from Project Gutenberg (eBook #5324). Public domain in the United States; no rights are claimed over the text.