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The Book of Werewolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould, Part 1

Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep

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The Most Remarkable Story of the Ancients

According to Marcellus Cedetes, men are attacked with this madness chiefly in the beginning of the year. Virgil writes in his eighth eclog, Ház Herbas, ake hek ponto mihi naktavanena,. ipsaedid it moeris naskuntur plurima ponto: "His ego saiepel lupam" And Herodotus says, it seems that the Niri are sorcerers; for each Nairian changes himself once in the year into the form of a wolf and he continues in that form for several days after which he resumes his former shape.

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