The Public Domain Review considers Sabine Baring-Gould’s 1865 Book of Were-Wolves.

“Lycanthropes go by many names, writes Sabine Baring-Gould in his ‘account of a terrible superstition,’ and ‘half the world believes, or believed, in were-wolves.’ In France’s Périgord, those born out of wedlock are known to transform into louléerou with each full moon. In Normandy, the loups-garoux borrows its hide from the devil. Bulgarians and Slovakians knew the creature as vrkolak; to the Serbs, it was vlkoslak; in ‘the ancient Bohemian Lexicon of Vacerad,’ it was vilkodlak; and in Russia, oborot. Among the Anglo-Saxons, an utlagh (or outlaw) was said to have a wolfish head. In Iceland and Norway, some men were thought to be eigi einhamir, ‘not of one skin.’”

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