Werewolves - Throughout the British Isles

From the wulver of Shetland to the wolf-priests of Ossory, the shape-shifting beast has haunted these islands for centuries – and here that native lore is gathered and weighed with a scholar's care.

Drawn from Montague Summers' landmark study The Werewolf (1933), this volume assembles the evidence for lycanthropy across England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, tracing it through chronicle, legend, trial record, and rural superstition. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 – 1948) was an English author and clergyman celebrated for his earnest studies of witches, werewolves, and vampires, all of which he held to be quite real; in 1928 he produced the first English translation of the notorious witch-hunters' manual, the Malleus Maleficarum.

This edition features:

• An examination of British and Irish werewolf traditions, from medieval chronicles to enduring folk belief and place-name lore. • Summers' characteristic blend of wide reading, Pagan and Christian sources, and a firm conviction in the reality of the beast. • A newly reset text making a scarce chapter of occult scholarship available once more to readers and collectors.

© 2012 Read & Co. History (E-bog): 9781447480242

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E-bog: 2. november 2012