June 26, 2006
THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES
by SABINE BARING-GOULD
Here is another online version of The Book of Were-Wolves with glamorous illustrations. Sabine Baring-Gould at Wikipedia.
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What a fascinating character. I am definitely bookmarking the text to read on a stormy night at 2am.
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He (enevitably in his imperialistic age, no doubt) interprets shamanism from within his judeo-christian world-view. The result is the posited existance of werewolves. The people accused were guilty of nothing more than shamanic mysticism - of following a different religion.
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Cool! I've been a fan of the grandson's work, so this should be a fun read.
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AHHHHH-WHOOOOOOO! Good post.
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Beware of the Sabines baring gould.
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/collaaaaaaaaaaaapse
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) for Plegmund!
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*writes Plegmund's name in Big Book of Schmart Fellers*
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now we've ordered a were-wolf for this Halloween one with slaver-strung fangs like the wargs of Tolkien and he's to come famished and howl like a fiend and his breath smell like something becoming gangrened
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The Natural History of the European Werewolf
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How Do Psychiatrists Treat Werewolves? With psychotropic drug cocktails, of course.
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I wonder, if like some bipolar people, they sometimes don't stay with the drug regimen because they enjoy the werewolf state as the bipolar does the maniac phase?