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62 THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
FIG. 4 Woodcut from G.W.M. Reynolds’s
serialised novel Wagner the Wehr-Wolf.
mythologists about the origins and characteristics of lycanthropy. In
1873, for example, John Fiske described the werewolf as ‘a person who
had the power of transforming himself into a wolf, being endowed,
while in the lupine state, with the intelligence of a man, the ferocity
of a wolf, and the irresistible strength of a demon’. 62 In 1894, Kirby
Flower Smith gave a similar account in an article for PMLA, describing
the werewolf as