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FIG. 1 Title page
woodcut, William
and the Werwolf.
WEREWOLVES AND SCHOLARS
Despite the fanciful connotations of the title page, the introductory
notes to William and the Werwolf set the tone for the empirically
motivated genealogical studies of the werewolf myth that were to
fl ower between the late 1850s and about 1875. In addition to the introductory
comments by the editor, which link the werewolf with the
berserker traditions of Norse mythology popularized by Scott as well
as referring to an early-modern tract on lycanthropy by the French
demonologist Henri Boguet, 28 the book contains a discussion ‘On Werewolves’
by Algernon Herbert. Although Herbert began his piece with
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