CHAPTER 5. THE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE-AGES

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CHAPTER 5. THE WERE-WOLF IN THE MIDDLE-AGES Stories from Olaus Magnus of Livonian Were-wolves--Story from Bishop Majolus-Story of Albertus Pericofcius--Similar occurrence at Prague--Saint Patrick-Strange incident related by John of Nüremberg--Bisclaveret--Courland Werewolves--Pierre Vidal--Pavian Lycanthropist--Bodin's Stories--Forestus' Account of a Lycanthropist--Neapolitan Were-wolf OLAUS MAGNUS relates that--"In Prussia, Livonia, and Lithuania, although the inhabitants suffer considerably from the rapacity of wolves throughout the year, in that these animals rend their cattle, which are scattered in great numbers through the woods, whenever they stray in the very least, yet this is not regarded by them as such a serious matter as what they endure from men turned into wolves. "On the

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