The Werewolf in France (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

By Montague Summers and Caroline Taylor Stewart

From the terror of the G vaudan to the loup-garou trials of Poligny and the boy-wolf Jean Grenier, no land holds deeper werewolf lore than France - gathered here with a scholar's exacting eye.

Taken from Montague Summers' The Werewolf (1933), this volume follows lycanthropy through French chronicle, legend, and the celebrated witch-and-wolf trials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essay named in the subtitle, Caroline Taylor Stewart's The Origin of the Werewolf Superstition, is included in full. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 - 1948) was an English author and clergyman celebrated for his earnest studies of witches, werewolves, and vampires, all of which he held to be quite real; in 1928 he produced the first English translation of the notorious witch-hunters' manual, the Malleus Maleficarum.

This edition features:

French werewolf cases and trials, from Gilles Garnier and Jean Grenier to the enduring dread of the loup-garou.Summers' reading of chronicle, legend, and demonological source, weighing Pagan survival against Christian belief.Caroline Taylor Stewart's essay on the psychological and cultural origins of the werewolf superstition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447405412
• ISBN13: 9781447405412
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Fantasy and Horror Classics
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"