Baring-Gould. The Book of Were-Wolves.

Today's free book is The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

Also available at: Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Sacred Texts, Hathi Trust, Google Books, and LibriVox. There is also a free Kindle ebook.

Table of Contents

I. Introductory

II. Lycanthropy Among the Ancients

III. The Were-Wolf in the North

IV. The Origin of the Scaninavian Were-Wolf

V. The Were-Wolf in the Middle Ages

VI. A Chamber of Horrors

VII. Jean Grenier

VIII. Folk-Lore Relating to Were-Wolves

IX. Natural Causes of Lycanthropy

X. Mythological Origin of the Were-Wolf Myth

XI. The Maréchal de Retz.-I. The Investigation of Charges.

XII. The Maréchal de Retz.--II. The Trial

XIII. Maréchal de Retz.--III. The Sentence and Execution.

XIV. A Galician Were-Wolf

XV. Anomalous Case.--The Human Hyæna.

XVI. A Sermon on Were-Wolves