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Werewolf Legends

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Editors:
  1. Willem de Blécourt

    1. Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Mirjam Mencej

    1. University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  • Brings together contributions from anthropologists and folklorists
  • Highlights the similarities and differences between werewolf narratives
  • Written by Willem de Blécourt and Mirjam Mencej

Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Werewolf Legends: False, Fabricated or Altogether Absent—Fragments of a Nineteenth-Century Historiography

    • Willem de Blécourt
    Pages 1-20

  3. “You Are a Werewolf!” Swedish Werewolf Legends from an International Perspective

    • Willem de Blécourt
    Pages 21-40

  4. Of Wolf-Belts, Hungry Servants and Tattered Skirts: The Werewolf in North German Legends

    • Petra Himstedt-Vaid
    Pages 41-74

  5. Wolf-Shaped Otherness: Finnish Werewolf Legends Reflecting Suspension from Human Community

    • Kaarina Koski, Pasi Enges
    Pages 75-99

  6. Werewolves in Lithuanian Folklore Sources of the End of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

    • Jūratė Šlekonytė
    Pages 101-128

  7. Legends and Beliefs About Werewolves Among the Eastern Slavs: Areal Characteristics of Motifs

    • Marina Valentsova
    Pages 129-154

  8. The Werewolf as the Slavic and Germanic “Other”: Czech Werewolf Legends Between Oral and Popular Culture

    • Petr Janeček
    Pages 155-181

  9. Werewolves as Social Others: Contemporary Oral Narratives in Rural Bosnia and Herzegovina

    • Mirjam Mencej
    Pages 183-208

  10. When the Other Is One of Us: Narrative Construction of Werewolf Identity in the Romanian Western Carpathians at the End of the Twentieth Century

    • Laura Jiga Iliescu
    Pages 209-236

  11. A Strange Kind of Man Among Us: Beliefs and Narratives About Werewolves in Southern Italy

    • Vito Carrassi
    Pages 237-260

  12. Werewolves in the Western Alps

    • Fabio Armand
    Pages 261-283

  13. Running the Fate: Portuguese Belief Narratives About Werewolves

    • Paulo Correia
    Pages 285-311

  14. From Type to Cluster: Werewolf Legends in the Netherlands

    • Willem de Blécourt
    Pages 313-338

  15. The Werewolf of Hull

    • Deborah Hyde
    Pages 339-364

  16. Correction to: Werewolf Legends

    • Willem de Blécourt, Mirjam Mencej
    Pages C1-C1

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 365-375
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About this book

This book brings together contributions from anthropologists and folklorists on werewolf legends from all over Europe. Ranging from broad overviews to specific case studies, their chapters highlight the similarities and differences between werewolf narratives in different areas and attempt to explain them. The result of interaction between elite and popular culture, local and external influences, and nature and culture that lasted several centuries or even more, nineteenth- to twenty-first-century werewolf legends represent a kaleidoscope of the darker sides of human life.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Willem de Blécourt

  • University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Mirjam Mencej

About the editors

Willem de Blécourt is Historical Anthropologist and editor of Werewolf Histories, also in this series.



Mirjam Mencej teaches Folklore Studies and Comparative Mythology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Werewolf Legends

  • Editors: Willem de Blécourt, Mirjam Mencej

  • Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06082-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06081-6Published: 02 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06084-7Due: 30 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06082-3Published: 30 September 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5630

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 375

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: European History, Cultural History, Social History

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