The Book of Were-Wolves: Being an Account of Terrible Superstition
S. Baring-Gould
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The werewolf traced through the sagas, the French trials, the medical records and the case of a real man who confessed to it in 1598. Baring-Gould was a country parson and wrote the standard nineteenth-century book on the subject before the folklore societies existed. This edition is bound with sixty plates of painting, among them works by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Jean-François Millet, Laurits Andersen Ring and Yrjö Ollila, dating from 1822 to 1923.
The werewolf traced through the sagas, the French trials, the medical records and the case of a real man who confessed to it in 1598. Baring-Gould was a country parson and wrote the standard nineteenth-century book on the subject before the folklore societies existed. This edition is bound with s...
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Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English priest, antiquary, novelist and folk-song collector born in Exeter. He wrote some hundred and fifty books, collected songs from Devon and Cornwall labourers, and wrote the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers. His works include The Book of Were-Wolves, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, and Yorkshire Oddities.
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English priest, antiquary, novelist and folk-song collector born in Exeter. He wrote some hundred and fifty books, collected songs from Devon and Cornwall labourers, and wrote the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers. His works include The Book of Were-Wolves, Cu...
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