Werewolf legends. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Willem de Blécourt, Mirjam Mencej.
• Editors: Blécourt, Willem de; Mencej, Mirjam
• Contents: 1. Werewolf Legends: False, Fabricated and Altogether Absent. Fragments of a Nineteenth-Century Historiography; Willem de Blécourt.- 2. 'You Are A Werewolf!' Swedish Legends in International Perspective; Willem de Blécourt.- 3. On Wolf's Belts, Hungry Farmhands and Tattered Skirts. The Werewolf in North German Legends; Petra Himstedt-Vaid.- 4. Wolf-Shaped Otherness. Finnish Werewolf Legends Reflecting Suspension From Human Community; Kaarina Koski & Pasi Enges.- 5. Werewolves in Lithuanian Folklore Sources of the End of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century; Jūratė Šlekonytė.- 6. Legends and Beliefs about Werewolves Among Eastern Slavs: Areal Characteristics of Motifs; Marina Valentsova.- 7. The Werewolf as the Slavic and Germanic 'Other': Czech Werewolf Legends Between Oral and Popular Culture; Petr Janeček.- 8. Werewolves as Social Others. Contemporary Oral Narratives in Rural Bosnia and Herzegovina; Mirjam Mencej.- 9. When the 'Other' is One of Us. Narrative Construction of Werewolf Identity in Romanian Western Carpathians at the End of the Twentieth Century; Laura Jiga Iliescu.- 10. A Strange Kind of Man Among Us: Beliefs and Narratives about Werewolves in Southern Italy; Vito Carrassi.- 11. Werewolves in the Western Alps; Fabio Armand.- 12. Running the Fate: Portuguese Werewolf Legends and Memorates; Paulo Correia.- 13. From Type to Cluster: Werewolf Legends in the Netherlands; Willem de Blécourt.- 14. The Werewolf of Hull; Deborah Hyde.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 398.2454; Werewolves -- Europe -- History; Werewolves in popular culture; Folklore -- Europe; Legends -- Europe
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031060823
• Related ISBNs: 9783031060816
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