The Origin of the Werewolf Superstition

Note: Errors in German quotes and booktitles were mostly not corrected. A more detailed transcriber's note can be found at the end of this text.




(2) To secure clothing in cold climes by trapping or decoying animals, as in (1) above.





As to the American Indians, see Ethnological Report for 1880-81, p. 83, “From their close relations with wild animals Indians’ stories of transformations into beasts and beasts into men are numerous and interesting.... In times of peace, during the long winter evenings, some famous storyteller told of those days in the past when men and animals could transform themselves at will and hold converse with one another.”