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Werewolf

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This is the textbook of werewolfery and, is about as entertaining as any college textbook would be. It was written in the days before the Hollywood werewolf and, reads like an Audubon Society field guide to birds. If you are looking for the definitive non-fiction work on the subject, you have found it. If you are looking for "Werewolf: The Apocalypse" type kitsch, you're in over your head here.

1O/11/97 E-mail (Eugene IV) I wish and hope to see more works by the author Montague Summers. His books are quite rare, and are great to read. I'm delighted to see this work being published again by the famed Montague Summers and his book "The Were Wolf". A thrilling and rather frighful account of a series of events that took place during the 15th and 18th centuries. Father Montague 188O/1948 an English Priest of the Catholic Church goes into depth about the heart chilling details of "The Were Wolf". How the Were Wolf is not just folk lore, but part of the belief of the Catholic Church, that condemned such monster's attributing there existence to the devil or satan "The Father of Lies" Gospel of (John:8 44). Filled with wisdom and historical accounts the priest gives his thoughts on the mind of the Catholic Church during that time, and her practice of burning such for there wickedness. A great book for them that doubt or deny the existence of "The Were Wolf".

It took me 8 years to procure a copy of "The Werewolf", by Montague Summers. Perhaps, my expectations were too high, but this was a big disappointment.

I've read many books on Werewolves, and shape-shifter lore, both fiction and non-fiction. While I must give Rev. Summers credit for the amount of research that went into the book, the exceptional bibliography and documentation, his writing style made the book all but unreadable. If you happen to read fluent English, French, German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Spanish, or have a penchant for pretentious prose, then you're sure to get much more out of "The Werewolf" than a rube such as I. Summers will begin to make a point, and then summarize with a quote in Greek that he doesn't even bother to translate! This happens through out the entire book.

If "The Werewolf" is ever reprinted, it would certainly behoove the editor to translate the passages, and update the language by changing all those "U's" to "V's" in words such as "couen" and "Sauiour". In the mean time, so yourself a favor, and purchase "The Book of Werewolves" by Sabine Baring-Gould.