A LIST OF WORKS RELATING TO LYCANTHROPY
Compiled by George F. Black, Ph.D.
This list of works dealing with a terrible form of superstition includes not only the works contained in The New York Public Library but all others of which any record could be found. The brevity of the list justifies the inclusion of material outside of the Library’s collection, for the benefit of students of the subject. Somewhat over 75 per cent of the titles are in the Library, and these are indicated by the Library’s call number.
An interesting allusion to the werewolf in Scottish folklore is preserved in the records of the Presbytery of Kelso. Under the date of November 6, 1660, it is stated that "Michell Usher, or Wishart, at Sproustoun, and Mausie Ker, his wife, complean of John Brown, weaver ther, for calling him a warwoof, and her a witch." I believe this is the only reference to the werewolf in Scottish folklore.
The superstition about the werewolf arose from instances of human savagery, and there can be little doubt that the savage deeds which attended the German invasion of Belgium, France, and Serbia will go far to confirm the peasantry of the invaded provinces in their belief in the existence of werewolves.
Alby, Ernest. Les trois loups-garoux. (Le magasin littéraire. Paris, 1845. f°. v. 9, no. 54, p. 49–55.) *DM
1, Le grand cavalier noir; 2, Le rendez-vous du diable; 3, Un capucin et un fou; 4, Une nuit au Sabbat. On p. 55 the author gives 'Le ballade du loup-garou.' which he says is from the sixteenth century. See also under Ballad.
Andree, Richard. Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche. . . Mit. . .Tafeln. . . Stuttgart, 1878. xii, 303 p. 8°.
Werewolf, p. 62-80.
Auge (Lat. Augentius), Daniel d', d. 1595. Discours sur l'arrêt donné au parlement de Dole en Bourgogne, touchant un homme accusé & convaincu d'être loup-garou.
La Croix du Maine, Les Bibliothéques Françoises, v. 1, p. 162, Paris, 1772, says this work was printed but gives no place or date. It does not appear in any list of works dealing with lycanthropy.
Augustine, Saint, bishop of Hippo. De civitate Dei. ZEM
Lib. xviii, c. 17: De incredibilibus commutationibus hominum quid Varro tradiderit; c. 18: Quid credentum sit de transformationibus, quæ arte daemonum hominibus videntur accidere.
The Ballad of the loup-garou. (In: W. J. Thoms, Lays and legends of various countries. Legends of France. London, 1834. 16°. p. 26-30.) ZBIA
Original French and English translation. From Le Jardin de Plaisance et Fleur de Rhetorique.
Baring-Gould, Sabine. The book of were-wolves: being an account of a terrible superstition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1865. xii, 266p., 1 pl. 12°. ZBT
Beaugrand, H. The werwolves. illus. (Century illustrated magazine. New York, 1898. 8°. v.56, p. 814-823.) *DA
Fiction.
Beauvoys de Chauvincourt, Sieur de. Discours de la lycantropie ou de la transmutation des hommes en loups. Paris: Jacq. Rezé, 1599. 4p.1.,32p. 8°.
Bodin, Jean. De lycanthropia, & an spiritus vertere hominem in bestiam possint. (In his: De magorum dæmonomania. Francofurti, 1603. 8°. lib. 2, cap. 6.) YPD
Boettiger, Carl August. Aelteste Spuren der Wolfswuth in der griechischen Mythologie. [Mit einem Zusatz von K. Spren-gel.] (In: K. P. J. Sprengel, Beyträge zur Geschichte der Medicin. Halle, 1795. 8°. Bd. 1, St. 2, p. 3-72.)
Boguet, Henri. Sorcellerie des lycanthropes ou loups garoux. (In his: Discours execrable des Sorciers. . . Rouen, 1606. 24°.) YPD
Bon, Antoinette. Le seigneur Loupgarou. (Legende de l'Auvergne.) (Revue des traditions populaires. Paris, 1890. 8°. v. 5, p. 216-218.) ZBA
Bordelon, Laurent. Histoire des imaginations extravagantes de Monsieur Oufle. . . Paris, 1793. 8°.
This edition contains some curious notes on lycanthropy.
Bosquet, Amélie. Normandie romanesque et merveilleuse, traditions, legendes et superstitions populaires de cette province. Paris, 1845. 8°.
See chap. xii.
Bourquelot, Félix. Recherches sur la lycanthropie. (Société des antiquaires de France. Mémoires et dissertations sur les antiquités. Paris, 1849. 8°. v. 19 [nouv. série, v. 9], p. 193-262.) DA
[Paris:] E. Duverger, 1848. 70 p. 8°.
Separate issue of above.
Calmeil, L. F. De la folie considérée sous le point de vue pathologique, philosophique, historique, et judiciaire. Paris, 1845. 2 v. 8°.
Lycanthropie. (Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales. Paris, 1870. 8°. série 2, v. 3, p. 359-371.) WAD
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