I What is a Werwolf? — 9II Werwolf Metamorphosis Compared with Other Branches of Lycanthropy — 25III The Spirits of Werwolves — 43IV How to Become a Werwolf — 51V Werwolves and Exorcism — 63VI The Werwolf in the British Isles — 79VII The Werwolf in France — 93The Case of the Abbot Gilbert, of the Arc Monastery, on the Banks of the Loire — 94The Case of Roland Bertin — 95Werwolves and Witches — 98VIII Werwolves and Vampires and Ghouls — 105The Case of Sergeant Bertrand — 106Vampirism and Lycanthropy — 110Ghoulism and Lycanthropy — 112The Case of Constance Armande, Ghoul — 113IX Werwolves in Germany — 119The Case of Herr Hellen and the Werwolves of the Harz Mountains — 119X A Lycanthropous Brook in the Harz Mountains; or, the Case of the Countess Hilda von Breber — 133XI Werwolves in Austria-Hungary and the Balkan Peninsula — 143The Case of the Family of Kloska and the Lycanthropous Flower — 143A Werwolf in Innsbruck — 148XII The Werwolf in Spain — 159XIII The Werwolf in Belgium and The Netherlands — 173A Case of Werwolves in the Ardennes — 174A Similar Case near Waterloo — 176A Case on the Sand-dunes — 176Werwolves in the Netherlands — 180XIV The Werwolves and Maras of Denmark — 185The Case of Peter Andersen, Werwolf — 185Maras — 188A Case of a Mara in Jutland — 189The Mara of Vilvorde — 190XV Werwolves in Norway and Sweden — 193Liso of Soroa — 198XVI Werwolves in Iceland, Lapland, and Finland — 209The Werwolves of Lapland — 212Finland Werwolves — 216XVII The Werwolf in Russia and Siberia — 221The Case of Ivan of Shiganska — 227Post ScriptumWerewolf as a hybrid of the material and immaterial, of man and elemental forceThe core view of paranormal investigator Elliott O’Donnell, regarding the wer(e)wolf, was that he assumed a serious occult phenomenon, rather than a folkloric fantasy, that could easily be dismissed by science. Within this scope Werwolves (1914) is as pioneering as the book is entertaining. It combines O’Donnell’s – ahead of his time – linking of the werewolf to shamanism, the etheric double and astral projection with the traditional dark romantic aura that hangs around the subject. His conclusion, that the werewolf was most likely linked to psychic projection skills, was re-examined by Claude Lecouteux in 1992 in his Witches, Werewolves and Fairies.The word werwolf (werewolf) is derived from the Anglo-Saxon wer (man) and wulf (wolf). There is scarcely a country in the world in which belief in werewolves, or in some other form of were-animals, has not existed. However, attempts to unravel the real phenomena remain very scarce. In Werwolves a lot of historical werewolf-cases are described which took place in several parts of Europe (France, British Isles, Germany, Austria-Hungaria & Balkan, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, Russia and the Scandinavian countries). Whereas in some regions the werewolf is considered wholly physical, in others it is looked upon as partly, if not entirely, astral or etheric. There is also an overlap with the Ghoul and Vampire.