The Complete Idiot's Guide to Werewolves (41 page)

 

Wendigo
A term that literally translates as “cannibal.” Originally, the term referred to those who had been possessed by the Wendigo, meaning they had resorted to cannibalism in order to survive. Over time, inhabitants of the region have claimed that the Wendigo is, in fact, a very real creature that looks somewhat like a Sasquatch/Bigfoot with antlers.

 

were-cat
Sometimes used interchangeably with
bastet,
this is a term commonly used to refer to a human with the power to assume the form of a large cat (usually some predatory cat, such as a lion or tiger) or some form of cat-human hybrid.

 

werewolf
A common term for one who is in the state of lycanthropy.

 

zoanthropy
A term used in psychology to refer to a state of mental delusion in which the afflicted individual harbors the belief that he or she can assume the form of an animal.

Appendix B

Further Reading

There are thousands of books available that deal with the subject of werewolves. These many works range from reference books to horror fiction, from horror-romance to psychology and sociology. If you would like to continue your study of lycanthropy, or just want to find some enjoyable fiction reads with werewolf characters, the following list of titles is definitely a good place to start.

Anderson, Sarah.
The Cold Counsel: The Women in Old Norse Literature and Myth.
New York: Routledge, 2001.

 

Ashley, Leonard.
The Complete Book of Werewolves.
New York: Barricade Books, 2001.

 

Baring-Gould, Sabine.
The Book of Werewolves
. Scotts Valley: IAP, 2009 (originally published in 1865).

 

Bourgault du Coudray, Chantal.
The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror, and the Beast Within.
New York: I.B. Taurus, 2006.

 

Cybulski, Angela.
Fact or Fiction? Werewolves.
Farmington Hills: Greenhaven Press, 2004.

 

De Blecourt, Willem.
Werewolves
. New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2005.

 

Douglas, Adams.
The Beast Within: Man, Myths, and Werewolves.
New York: Orion, 1993.

 

Glut, Donald.
True Werewolves of History.
Rockville: Sense of Wonder Press, 2004.

 

Godfrey, Linda.
Hunting the American Werewolf.
Boulder: Trails Media Group, 2006.

 

Godfrey, Linda, and Rosemary Guiley.
Werewolves
. New York: Checkmark Books, 2008.

 

Guiley, Rosemary.
The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters.
New York: Checkmark Books, 2004.

 

Hamel, Frank.
Werewolves, Bird-Women, and Other Human Animals
. Dover: Dover Publications, 2007.

 

Hirschmann, Kris.
Mysterious Encounters—Werewolves.
New York: KidHaven Press, 2006.

 

O’Donnell, Elliot.
Werewolves
. Rockville: Wildside Press, 2008.

 

Otten, Charlotte F.
A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture.
New York: Dorset Press, 1990.

 

Pipe, Jim.
In the Footsteps of the Werewolf.
East Sussex, UK: Copper Beech, 1996.

 

Sconduto, Leslie.
Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance.
Jefferson: McFarland, 2008.

 

Senn, Harry A.
Were-Wolf and Vampire in Romania
. Columbia: East European Monographs, 1982.

 

Steiger, Brad.
The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia of Shape-Shifting Beings
. Canton: Visible Ink Press, 1999.

 

Summers, Montague.
The Werewolf in Lore and Legend
. Dover: Dover Publications, 2003.

In this list, please note that the classic literary texts already discussed in Chapter 10 have been excluded.

 

Andrews, Christopher.
Triumvirate: Of Wolf and Man
. New York: Rising Star Visionary Press, 2009.

 

Barlow, Toby.
Sharp Teeth
. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.

 

Bergstrom, Elaine, and various.
Werewolves: Dead Moon Rising (Anthology)
. Calumet City: Moonstone, 2007.

 

Briggs, Patricia.
Alpha and Omega Saga
. New York: Ace Mass Market, 2008.

 

Cassidy, Dakota.
The Accidental Werewolf
. Berkeley: Berkeley Trade, 2008.

 

Douglas, Carole Nelson.
Dancing with Werewolves: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator
. New York: Juno Books, 2007.

 

Enck, Eric.
The Work
. Washington, D.C.: PublishAmerica, 2005.

 

Farago, Gina.
Ivy Cole and the Moon
. Randleman: NeDeo Press, 2005.

 

———.
Luna
. Randleman: NeDeo Press, 2008.

 

Half-Human, Half-Animal: Tales of Werewolves and Related Creatures
. Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2003.

 

Harris, Charlaine.
Dead and Gone
. New York: Ace Hardcover, 2009.

 

Harris, Charlaine, and various.
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
(
Anthology
). New York: Ace Hardcover, 2008.

 

Jones, Carrie.
Need
. London: Bloomsbury USA, 2008.

 

Kennard, Vincent.
The Wolf Chronicles
. Bloomington: Authorhouse, 2007.

 

MacInerney, Karen.
Howling at the Moon: Tales of an Urban Werewolf
. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008.

 

Nelson, S. M.
Hallowed Moon
. Washington, D.C.: PublishAmerica, 2008.

 

Salzman, Shawn W.
Order of the Wolf
. Bloomington: Xlibris Corporation, 2008.

 

Thompson, Ronda.
Confessions of a Werewolf Supermodel
. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

 

Wedel, Steven E.
Call to the Hunt
. Massena: Scrybe Press, 2005.

 

Wilks, Eileen.
The World of the Lupi Series
. Berkeley: Berkeley Trade, 2004.

Index

Africa

rituals

were-lions

alpha animal

Altered Beast
video game

An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in Paris

Anasazi

anime

Antaeus

anthropomorphism

Anthus family

antisocial behavior after werewolf bite

Anubis

appearance myths

Arcadians

archbishop of Mainz

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Argentina, seventh sons

Armenian mythology

art

anthropomorphism

The Book of Jack

Creature Commandos

Crescent Moon
series

graphic novels

Lilith

Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos

Only the End of the World Again

stone engravings

“Werewolf by Night,”

Wolf’s Rain

Arthurian Legend

Bisclavret
plot

ash trees

Asia, were-tigers

Assyria depiction of gods

Aswang

Attias, Daniel

Australia, rituals

Auvergne, France

babies, unbaptized

Banbirpur werewolves

Banta, Dr. Richard

case studies

baptized babies

bastets

Beast of Bray Road

Endrizzi, Lorianne

Gipson, Doristine

Beast of Gevaudan

attack on girl

attack on hunters

Chastel, Jean

d’Enneval clan

de Beauterne

death

description

dragoons

Duhamel

killings

pack theory

The Beast Within
computer game

Bedburg, Werewolf of

Benandanti

berserkers

Berserkersgang

Bertrand, Francois

death

trial

Bible, New Testament

Bisclavret
(de France)

bite curse

bite of a werewolf

degrees of infection

first transformation

symptoms

physical

psychological

BiteFight.org
online game

Blood and Chocolate

body aches after werewolf bite

body mass changes after werewolf bite

bondegezou

The Book of Jack

Borno, were-hyenas

bouda (were-hyena)

Braineaters

Brazil, seventh sons

Britain

Black Hounds of Britain

dog in church

hellhounds

Norfolk

bruxsa

bultungin (were-hyena)

Burgot and Verdun

arrest

changing into wolves

horsemen

burning of Gilles Garnier

Busey, Gary

Cambrensis, Giraldus

Canis Anthus

cardinal sins

“A Case of Lycanthropy,”

case studies

Mr. A case study

Mr. H case study

Mr. W case study

Mrs. L case study

Cathedral of Holy Wisdom

caul

Cerberus

Chaney, Lon, Jr.

Chesebro, George

children

born with caul

as wolves

of wolves

Christianity

cinder trees

clan members living as wolves

clinical lycanthropy

case studies

reverse

Colton, John

comics

Creature Commandos

Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos,

commonalities between types of lycanthropy

computer games

The Beast Within

BiteFight.org
online game

Werewolves of London

Wolf Team
online game

Wolfsbane

Cotard’s Syndrome

Coyote, Native Americans

cradle of civilization

Creature Commandos

Crescent Moon
series

cryptids

cryptozooligists

cryptozoology

cucubuth

cultural differences, myths

cure for lycanthropy

exorcism

informing that it is a werewolf

iron bar

name

potions

The Curse of the Werewolf

cursed werewolf

bite curse

familial curse

King Lycoan

Daniel, Rob

Dante, Joe

Darker Than You Think
(Williamson)

d’Enneval clan (Beast of Gevaudan)

de Beauterne, Antoine (Beast of Gevaudan)

de France, Marie (
Bisclavret
)

death rites for wolf

decapitation to kill werewolf

dementia

Demon Tailor of Chalons

skeletons discovered

trial

demon wolves

demonization of wolf

Derecho, Dennis, M.P.H.

dietary changes after werewolf bite

dismemberment of werewolf of Padua

disposing of werewolf body after death

Dog Soldiers

dragoons

Duhamel (Beast of Gevaudan)

Eastern mythology

Aswang

Layak

Lou Lan

O-kami

werewolf of Banbirpur

Ecclesiastical Court of the Inquisition

Egypt, Anubis

El Lobizon

enchanted werewolf

Endore, Samuel Guy (
The Werewolf of Paris
)

England

Ramsey, Bill

Werewolf of London

ergot poisoning

Ethiopia, were-hyenas

executions

exorcism

eye disease of the Hopi

eyesight after werewolf bite

familial curse

familiar

Faust

Faust, John

Fenrir

Fenrir Greyback

Fiddler, Jack

Filippi, Denis Pierre

film

An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in Paris

Blood and Chocolate

The Curse of the Werewolf

Dog Soldiers

The Howling

The Monster Squad

Silver Bullet

Teen Wolf

Underworld
series

Werewolf of London

Werewolf
TV series

Wolf Blood

The Wolf Man

fingers/toes changes after werewolf bite

Fox, Michael J.

France.
See also
Medieval France

Auvergne

Burgot and Verdun

Demon Tailor of Chalons

Gandillon family

Garnier, Gilles

Leger, Antoine

Freud, Sigmund,
Wolf Man
case

furious rabies