A Lycanthropy reader : werewolves in Western culture


edited by Charlotte F. Otten
Bok Engelsk 1986
Medvirkende
Utgitt
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press , 1986
Omfang
XVI, 337 s. : ill.
Opplysninger
"Medical cases, diagnoses, descriptions, trial records, historical accounts, sightings, philosophical and theological approaches to metamorphosis, critical essays on lycanthropy, myths and legends, allegory". - 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.
Emner
Werewolves
myter legender sykdommer dyr varulver
Dewey
ISBN
0815623844

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