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book is a monograph on a peculiar form of popular superstition, prevalent among all nations, and in all ages.

That this is an exhaustive treatise, I do not pretend. I have material by me which would have extended it to double its size, but without tending further to elucidate the subject.

There are several interesting subjects connected with Lycanthropy, such as metempsychosis, innate cruelty, hallucination, &c., which could only be touched upon and indicated in the following pages, without being thoroughly investigated; this may give a fragmentary character to the book, but this, I believe, was