lycanthropous

Norwegian peasant, consists in the plucking and wearing of a lycanthropous flower after sunset, and on a night when the moon is in the full.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Werwolfery in Norway and Sweden is not confined to one sex; it is common to both; and in these countries various forms of spells, both for invoking and expelling lycanthropous spirits, are current.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

In addition to these methods (alluded to above) of expelling a lycanthropous spirit in Denmark, there may be added that of addressing the obsessed person as a werwolf and reproaching him roundly.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

As far as I can gather, a Norwegian or Swedish peasant, when he wishes to become a werwolf, kneels by the side of a lycanthropous stream at midnight, having chosen a night when the moon is in the full, and incants some such words as these: --

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Lycanthropous flowers, no less than lycanthropous water, possess properties peculiar to themselves; properties which are, probably, only discernible to those who are well acquainted with them.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Spells and various forms of exorcism are used, and certain streams are held to be lycanthropous.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Von Grumboldt was nothing loath, and in a few minutes all that remained of the lycanthropous girdle was a tiny heap of ashes.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Here, amid the primitive solitude of vast pine forests, flow lycanthropous rivers; here, too, grow lycanthropous shrubs and flowers.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

To burn the object to which the lycanthropous property is attached is the only recognized method of destroying that property.

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Here were to be found lycanthropous blue and white flowers, which those desirous of becoming werwolves sought from far and wide, some even coming from

Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918