MYTHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF THE WERE-WOLF MYTH
THE ORIGIN OF THE SCANDINAVIAN WERE-WOLF Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. If you enjoy this book, please leave a review.Īll rights reserved. THE BOOK OF WEREWOLVES Sabine Baring-Gould Out spake then the mayor-"Monsieur can never go back to-night across the flats, because of the-the-" and his voice dropped "the loups-garoux." Read more The good man offered to house me for the night but I was obliged to decline, as my family intended starting early on the following morning. Few in the place could speak French, and the priest, when I applied to him, assured me that he believed there was no better conveyance in the place than a common charrue with its solid wooden wheels nor was a riding horse to be procured. My walk of about ten miles had wearied me, coming at the end of a long day's posting, and I had lamed myself in scrambling over some stones to the Gaulish relic.Ī small hamlet was at no great distance, and I betook myself thither, in the hopes of hiring a trap to convey me to the posthouse, but I was disappointed. Suffice it to say that I discovered the venerable pile of grey stones as the sun set, and that I expended the last lights of evening in planning and sketching.
I had learned of the existence of this cromlech only on my arrival at Champigni in the afternoon, and I had started to visit the curiosity without calculating the time it would take me to reach it and to return. I SHALL never forget the walk I took one night in Vienne, after having accomplished the examination of an unknown Druidical relic, the Pierre labie, at La Rondelle, near Champigni.
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