The Werewolf

2012 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Unsurpassed in its sheer scope and depth the first definitive work on were-wolfs employs a theological and philosophical approach incorporating an extensive range of historical documentation and folklore. Summers examines the supernatural practice of shape-shifting notes the finer distinctions between werewolfery and lycanthropy and explores the differences of opinion on exactly how ordinary humans are transformed into creatures. Augustus Montague Summers was an English author and clergyman. He is known primarily for his scholarly work on the English drama of the 17th century as well as for his idiosyncratic studies on witches vampires and werewolves in all of which he professed to believe. He was responsible for the first English translation published in 1928 of the notorious 15th-century witch hunters manual the Malleus Maleficarum