[An allusion to the myth of the werewolf.]

And, if his devotion were dog-like in its fidelity, yet concealing the fires of a fierce passion beneath, it might well assume the form of a creature that seemed to be half dog, half wolf" "A werewolf, you mean?" cried Maloney, pale to the lips as he listened.

"A werewolf," he said, "is a true psychical fact of profound significance, however absurdly it may have been exaggerated by the imaginations of a superstitious peasantry in the days of unenlightenment, for a werewolf is nothing but the savage, and possibly sanguinary, instincts of a passionate man scouring the world in his fluidic body, his passion body, his body of desire.

"A werewolf," he said, "is a true psychical fact of profound significance, however absurdly it may have been exaggerated by the imaginations of a superstitious peasantry in the days of unenlightenment, for a werewolf is nothing but the savage, and possibly sanguinary, instincts of a passionate man scouring the world in his fluidic body, his passion body, his body of desire.

But now, follow me closely," he added, "for we must waste no time if I am to save this poor man from his affliction and lead his werewolf Double to its rest.

"Before I release it, you shall see for yourself," he said, "that the reality of the werewolf is beyond all question.

"Werewolf" XXX.

CHAPTER XXIX "WEREWOLF" Buck's cattle pony broke from the lope into a steady dog-trot.

"The werewolf," he screamed.

] "Oft to his frozen lair Tracked I the grisly bear, While from my path the hare Fled like a shadow; Oft through the forest dark Followed the werewolf's bark, Until the soaring lark Sang from the meadow.

[Footnote 5: According to a popular superstition, a werewolf is a man, who, at times, is transformed into a wolf.

[Footnote 6: Branch.] About the middle of the 14th century there was a revival of the Old English alliterative verse in romances like William and the Werewolf, and Sir Gawayne, and in religious pieces such as Clannesse (purity), Patience, and The Perle, the last named a mystical poem of much beauty, in which a bereaved father sees a vision of his daughter among the glorified.

The werewolf, by Max Brand, pseud.

SWEM, CHARLES LEE. Werewolf.

The werewolf of Paris.

I want you to know Mr. Thrawn, Mr. Simms; Mr. Thrawn claims to be a werewolf.

The werewolf, by Max Brand, pseud.

SWEM, CHARLES LEE. Werewolf.

The werewolf of Paris.

I want you to know Mr. Thrawn, Mr. Simms; Mr. Thrawn claims to be a werewolf.

Those parts of the newspaper which announce the giant gooseberry and the raining frogs are really the modern representatives of the popular tendency which produced the hydra and the werewolf and the dog-headed men.

If the finger is not burnt, the man is no were-wolf; but if it is burnt, a werewolf he most assuredly is, so they take him away to a quiet spot and hack him to bits.

Then he walked back with his wife to the village, carrying the bamboo with the werewolf in it.

It is a common belief that a man who has once been transformed into a werewolf must remain a were-wolf for seven years unless blood is drawn from him in his animal shape, upon which he at once recovers his human form and is delivered from the bondage and misery of being a were-wolf.

WEREWOLF, a person transformed into a wolf, or a being with a literally wolfish appetite, under the presumed influence of a charm or some demoniac possession.