By Brad Steiger
ISBN-10: 1578593670
ISBN-13: 9781578593675
Taking a major examine all issues werewolf, from the center a long time to the net, Steiger's e-book "leads the pack" at the phenomenon with 250 essays containing present and finished details. a hundred and fifty photos.
With 250 entries, this up-to-date filmography and source is the encyclopedic consultant to all issues lycanthropic and a desirable compendium of comparative mythology and folklore. Delving into the fifteenth century to discover the origins of the werewolf legend, it's an eye-opening, blood-pounding journey in the course of the a long time, touchdown at the doorstep of creatures like hirsute mass-murderer Albert Fish, Michael Lupo (Lupo is "wolf" in Italian), and Fritz Haarman who slaughtered and ate his victims–selling the leftovers as steaks and roasts in his butcher store. The images and drawings offer hair-raising proof of odd and obsessional habit throughout the centuries, and a necessary chronology of lycanthropic actions dates again 140,000 years to the 1st blending of human and lupine blood. Werewolf hunters of every age will delight in the exact part on slaying the beast, whereas power sufferers will locate the knowledge on detecting and warding away the occasional wayward wolfman extra to their rapid liking—if now not desire.
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Extra info for The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings
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There, in a patch of wintry starlight where the trees were thinner, were the hulking forms of what Jerome at first mistook for dogs. Taking a few steps closer, down the side of the low hill, it was clear to Jerome that these were like no dogs he had ever seen before. The cold, sobering realization came over Jerome that he was watching two huge wolves at work over some prey and at the same time he was aware that the strange woman had not slowed her pace, but was walking right toward the wolves. ” Jerome cried and caught up to her.
Jerome’s master rewarded what he considered “drunken, lying insolence” with confining his slave to the kitchen by a chain and making him peel endless heaps of potatoes. But Jerome didn’t mind. Anything was preferable to what he had seen the previous night. As had happened during the Battle of New Orleans, the Civil War and the occupation of the city by Union forces did much to impede the livelihood of the Basquemen. Consequently, there were numerous reported sightings of large wolves in the distant areas of the parish, along with the disappearance and mutilation of livestock nearby.
Elisabeth Bathory’s regular in-castle assembly of Witches, vampires, werewolves, and alchemists easily convinced her of the effectiveness of ritual human sacrifice to ensure Satan’s blessing of their magic spells and her rejuvenating blood baths. Darkside Witches also gained Elisabeth’s permission to conduct sadistic magical experiments on the girls. The Countess herself grew to crave demonstrations of torture as a daily activity. Her cruelly inventive mind devised countless devices by which to flay, burn, freeze, and bleed the captive girls.
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