Hamel surveys the belief that men and women can take animal form: by wearing a skin, rubbing on an ointment or buckling on a strap, and how the spell is broken by a silver bullet or a cut between the eyes. Chapters treat the bush-soul, animal dances, the werewolf trials of Europe, lion- and tiger-men, were-foxes and witches.
A compendium of shape-shifting lore written with an occultist’s sympathy, for readers of folklore and the uncanny. Download the free EPUB.