Record details

• ISBN: 0815623836 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780815623830 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0815623844 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780815623847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xvi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1986.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Medical cases, diagnoses, descriptions; trial records, historical accounts, sightings; philosophical and theological approaches to metamorphosis; critical essays on lycanthropy; myths and legends; allegory."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-324) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

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Werewolves.