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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER IV. | ||
| The Origin of the Scandinavian Were-wolf. | ||
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| Advantage of the Study of Norse Literature—Bear and Wolf-skin Dresses—The Berserkir—Their Rage—The Story of Thorir—Passages from the Aigla—The Evening Wolf—Skallagrim and his Son—Derivation of the Word "Hamr:" of "Vargr"—Laws affecting Outlaws—"To become a Boar"—Recapitulation | 34 | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| The Were wolf in the Middle Ages. | ||
| Stories from Olaus Magnus of Livonian Were-wolves—Story from Bishop Majolus—Story of Albertus Pericofcius—Similar occurrence at Prague—Saint Patrick—Strange incident related by John of Nüremberg—Bisclaveret—Courland Were-wolves—Pierre Vidal—Pavian Lycanthropist—Bodin's Stories—Forestus' Account of a Lycanthropist—Neapolitan Were-wolf | 53 | |
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| A Chapter of Horrors. | ||
| Pierre Bourgot and Michel Verdung—The Hermit of S. Bonnot—The Gandillon Family—Thievenne Paget—The Tailor of Châlons—Roulet | 69 | |
| CHAPTER VII. | ||
| Jean Grenier. | ||
| On the Sand-dunes—A Wolf attacks Marguerite Poirier—Jean Grenier brought to Trial—His Confessions—Charges of Cannibalism proved—His Sentence—Behaviour in the Monastery—Visit of Del'ancre | 85 | |
