Werewolf histories
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Werewolf histories
(Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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  Kumamoto
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  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia to Estonia.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Differentiated Werewolf: An Introduction to Cluster Methodology
- Willem de Blecourt 2. Good to Think: Wolves and Wolf-men in the Graeco-Roman World
- Richard Gordon 3. Into the Wild: Old Norse Stories of Animal Men
- Christa Agnes Tuczay 4. Before the Werewolf Trials: Contextualising Shape Changers and Animal Identities in Medieval North-Western Europe
- Aleksander Pluskowski Interlude: Wolf-Riding 5. "What About Some Good Wether?" Witches and Werewolves in 16th Century Italy
- Matteo Duni 6. "Species", "Phantasia", "Raison": Werewolves and Shape-shifters in Demonological Literature
- Johannes Dillinger 7. The Judge's Lore? The Politico-Religious Concept of Metamorphose in the Peripheries of Western Europe
- Rita Voltmer 8. The Werewolf in the Popular Culture of Early Modern Germany
- Rolf Schulte Interlude: The Shepherd of Wolves 9. Estonian Werewolf History
- Merili Metsvahi 10. The Werewolf in Nineteenth-Century Denmark
- Michele Simonsen 11. Dead Bodies and Transformations: Werewolves in Some South Slavic Folk Traditions
- Maja Pasaric
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