Werewolf Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Werewolf Histories write by Willem de Blécourt. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Werewolf Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Werewolf in the Ancient World
The Werewolf in the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Werewolf in the Ancient World write by Daniel Ogden. This book was released on 2021-01-07. The Werewolf in the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a moonlit graveyard somewhere in southern Italy, a soldier removes his clothes in readiness to transform himself into a wolf. He depends upon the clothes to recover his human shape, and so he magically turns them to stone, but his secret is revealed when, back in human form, he is seen to carry a wound identical to that recently dealt to a marauding wolf. In Arcadia a man named Damarchus accidentally tastes the flesh of a human sacrifice and is transformed into a wolf for nine years. At Temesa Polites is stoned to death for raping a local girl, only to return to terrorize the people of the city in the form of a demon in a wolfskin. Tales of the werewolf are by now well established as a rich sub-strand of the popular horror genre; less widely known is just how far back in time their provenance lies. These are just some of the werewolf tales that survive from the Graeco-Roman world, and this is the first book in any language to be devoted to their study. It shows how in antiquity werewolves thrived in a story-world shared by witches, ghosts, demons, and soul-flyers, and argues for the primary role of story-telling-as opposed to rites of passage-in the ancient world's general conceptualization of the werewolf. It also seeks to demonstrate how the comparison of equally intriguing medieval tales can be used to fill in gaps in our knowledge of werewolf stories in the ancient world, thereby shedding new light on the origins of the modern phenomenon. All ancient texts bearing upon the subject have been integrated into the discussion in new English translations, so that the book provides not only an accessible overview for a broad readership of all levels of familiarity with ancient languages, but also a comprehensive sourcebook for the ancient werewolf for the purposes of research and study.
Werewolves
Werewolves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Werewolves write by Marie Pearson. This book was released on 2019-08. Werewolves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tales of people turning into wolves at night have made the werewolf legendary. Learn more about this scary monster and how its story has changed over time.
The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849
The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 write by Andrew Barger. This book was released on 2010-05-01. The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transformation of the werewolf in literature made its greatest strides in the 19th century when the shape-shifting monster leapt from poetry to the short story. It happened when this shorter form of literature was morphing into darker shapes thanks in no small part to Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Prosper Merimee, James Hogg, and so many others in Europe and the United States.The fifty year period between 1800 and 1849 is truly the cradle of all werewolf short stories. For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period. The stories are "Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages," "The Man-Wolf," "A Story of a Weir-Wolf," "The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin," and "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains." It is believed that two of these fine stories have never been republished in over one hundred and fifty years since their original printing. Read "The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849" tonight, just make sure it is not by the light of a full moon "
The Wolf Who Learned to Be Good
The Wolf Who Learned to Be Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wolf Who Learned to Be Good write by Natalia Moore. This book was released on 2017-10-01. The Wolf Who Learned to Be Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wolf is thrilled when he meets a little girl who wants to be his friend, but he has a lot to learn about being nice. Wolf is very big and very bad. But when he meets a delicious-looking girl, she has other ideas. She wants to make Wolf her new friend. But Wolf is going to need more than a makeover to learn to get along with others. Can Wolf learn how to become a good friend—even to tasty humans? This fun and humorous storyline is beautifully reflected in Natalia Moore's charming illustrations.
