μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Werwolf. A man changes periodically into the form of a wolf. He is usually malevolent when in wolf form.

Magic. · Transformation. · Transformation: man to animal. · Transformation: man to mammal. · Transformation: man to wild beast (mammal). · view the constellation · filed as D113.1.1

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Scholars’ trail — 37references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • NorseMacCulloch Eddic 291
  • Icelandic*Boberg, Hrolfs saga Kraka 50, Volsungasaga 15, Sveinnson FFC LXXXIII p. liv
  • NorwegianSolheïm Register 16
  • FinnishAarne FFC XXXIII 46
  • GermanWuttke Volksaberglaube 277
  • DutchSchrijnen Volkskunde I 97
  • EnglishPhilippson Germanisches Heidentum bei den Angelsachsen 53, Child III 498a s. v. "werewolves", Wells 19 (William of Palerne)
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 323 No. 109, 325, No. 9
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "loupgarou"
  • GasconBladé Contes pop. de Gascogne II 360 No. 4
  • EstonianAarne FFC XXV 131f. Nos. 74–77, Eisen Esthnische Mythologie 31ff, Loorits Grundzüge I 311–320
  • LivonianLoorits FFC LXVI 63 Nos. 160–178
  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 3671
  • SlavicMáchal 228f.
  • JewishNeuman
  • IndiaThompson-Balys
  • S. Am. Indian (Amazon)Alexander Lat. Am. 301. – Africa: Frobenius Atlantis V 153, 165, VII 31ff, 56, XI 263, *Werner African 344
  • general **R. Andree Globus XXVII (1875)
  • general *C. T. Stewart Zs. f. Vksk. XIX 30ff.
  • general Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 227ff.
  • general (1928) 148ff.
  • general Lid Saga och Sed 1937, 3ff.
  • general Odstedt Varulven i svensk folktradition (Uppsala 1944)
  • general **K. E. Smith An Historical Study of the Werwolf in Literature (PMLA IX, 1894)
  • general **E. O'Donnell Werewolves (Boston 1914)
  • general Summers The Werwolf (London, 1933)
  • general *O. Clemen Zs. f. Vksk. XXX–XXXII 141
  • general *Kittredge Witchcraft 175 nn. 5–7
  • general ibid. Arthur 169 n. 1

Showing a bounded trail of 37 from 37 references.

Within the index

Filed under Transformation: man to wolf.

Filed beside it
God (goddess) assumes form of a wolf
Travels with
Wandering soul assumes shape of wolf. (Cf. D113.1.1, E731.)Child carried off by werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.1.)Boy saved by werwolf. (Cf. D113.1.1.)Werwolves hold mass. (Cf. D113.1.1, E492, G243.)

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