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Barrenness of English Folk-lore-Devonshire Traditions-Derivation of Were-wolf-Cannibalism in Scotland-The Angus Robber-The Carle of Perth-French Superstitions-Norwegian Traditions-Danish Tales of Were-wolves-Holstein Stories-The Werewolf in the Netherlands-Among the Greeks; the Serbs; the White Russians; the Poles; the Russians-A Russian Receipt for becoming a Were-wolf-The Bohemian Vlkodlak-Armenian Story-Indian Tales-Abyssinian Budas-American Transformation Tales-A Slovakian Household Tale-Similar Greek, Béarnais, and Icelandic Tales.
English folk-lore is singularly barren of were-wolf stories, the reason being that wolves had been extirpated from England under the Anglo-Saxon kings, and therefore ceased to be objects of dread to the people. The traditional belief in were-wolfism must, however, have remained long in the popular mind, though at present it has disappeared, for the word occurs in old ballads and romances. Thus in Kempion-