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Notes
Introduction
1. Barry Holstun Lopez, Of Wolves and Men (London, Toronto and Melbourne:
J.M. Dent, 1978), p. 140.
2. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949), trans. H.M. Parshley (London:
Picador, 1988), pp. 29, 176–8.
Chapter 1
1. Joseph Reed, ‘Subgenres in Horror Pictures: The Pentagram, Faust, and
Philoctetes’, in Barry Keith Grant (ed.), Planks of Reason: Essays on the
Horror Film (London and Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1984), p. 102.
2. Charlotte F. Otten, ‘Introduction’, in C.F. Otten (ed.), A Lycanthropy
Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture (New York: Syracuse University
Press, 1986), p. 13, referring to Paulus Aegineta, The Seven Books of
Paulus Aegineta, trans. Francis Adams (London, 1844–47), vol. 3, ch. 16.
Other references to lycanthropy in early literature appear in the Roman
poet Virgil’s eighth Eclogue, first century BC, which describes a young
man’s transformation into a wolf by the power of herbs, and Pliny’s Historia
Naturalis, first century AD, which features a number of accounts of
lycanthropy.
3. See the twelfth-century Lai de Bisclavret by Marie de France; twelfthcentury
Guillaume de Palerne (anon.); thirteenth-century Lai de Melion