Werwolves: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Werwolves, credited to Elliott O'Donnell, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Werwolves by Elliott O'Donnell. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Written in 1912 by a famous ghost hunter who was also an occult fantasy writer, this interesting book collects together folktales and traditions from across Europe, starting in the British Isles, through Spain, France, Belgium and Norway to Russia. The "scientific" accounts (including "How to Become a Werewolf") are embellished by anecdotes of the author's personal experiences with werewolves, ghosts and vampires. From Chapter 1: It is an old belief that the souls of cataleptic and epileptic people, during the body's unconsciousness, adjourned temporarily to animals, and it is therefore only in keeping with such a view to suggest that on the deaths of such people their spirits take permanently the form of animals. (Summary by Beth Thomas)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Werwolves
• Author credits: Elliott O'Donnell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 6:34:29

Catalogue topics

• vampire
• werewolf
• werewolves
• Occult
• werwolf
• werwolves

Track guide

1. 01 - What is a Werwolf? — 23:35
2. 02 - Werwolf Metamorphosis and other branches of Lycanthropy — 37:05
3. 03 - The Spirits of Werwolves — 15:53
4. 04 - How to Become a Werwolf — 22:58
5. 05 - Werwolves and Exorcism — 23:30
6. 06 - The Werwolf in the British Isles — 24:41
7. 07 - The Werwolf in France — 21:03
8. 08 - Werwolves, Vampires and Ghouls — 24:17
9. 09 - Werwolves in Germany — 24:34
10. 10 - The Case of The Countess Hilda von Breber — 15:47
11. 11 - Werwolves in Austria, Hungary and the Balkans — 26:09
12. 12 - The Werwolf in Spain — 24:33
13. 13 - The Werwolf in Belgium and the Netherlands — 19:28
14. 14 - The Werwolves and Maras of Denmark — 15:25
15. 15 - Werwolves in Norway and Sweden — 27:20
16. 16 - Werwolves in Iceland, Lapland and Finland — 17:36
17. 17 - The Werwolf in Russia and Siberia — 30:35

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