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Title: Werwolves

Author: Elliott O'Donnell

Release Date: September 16, 2008 [EBook #26629]

Language: English

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WERWOLVES

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

SOME HAUNTED HOUSES OF ENGLAND AND WALES

THE HAUNTED HOUSES OF LONDON

SCOTTISH GHOST TALES

BYEWAYS OF GHOSTLAND

GHOSTLY PHENOMENA

THE REMINISCENCES OF MRS. E. M. WARD

WERWOLVES

BY

ELLIOTT O'DONNELL

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

_First Published in 1912_

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I. WHAT IS A WERWOLF? 1

II. WERWOLF METAMORPHOSIS COMPARED WITH OTHER BRANCHES OF
LYCANTHROPY 20

III. THE SPIRITS OF WERWOLVES 44

IV. HOW TO BECOME A WERWOLF 55

V. WERWOLVES AND EXORCISM 71

VI. THE WERWOLF IN THE BRITISH ISLES 92

VII. THE WERWOLF IN FRANCE 110

VIII. WERWOLVES AND VAMPIRES AND GHOULS 126

IX. WERWOLVES IN GERMANY 143

X. A LYCANTHROPOUS BROOK IN THE HARZ MOUNTAINS; OR, THE
CASE OF THE COUNTESS HILDA VON BREBER 161

XI. WERWOLVES IN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND THE BALKAN PENINSULA 174

XII. THE WERWOLF IN SPAIN 194

XIII. THE WER