| Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...passions, it was supposed, were transformed into wolves, and those thus bestialized, became cannibals. " Ther ben somme that eten chyldren and men, and eteth noon other flesh fro that tyme that thei be a-eharmed with mannys flesh ; and thei be cleped were-wolfes."§ The " warwolf " is mentioned in Sempil's... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...ACHAHI. Alum-water. A chemical term. Howell. ACHAMECK. The dross of silver. Howell. A-CHARMED. Delighted. Ther ben somme that eten chyldren and men, and eteth...that thei be a-charmed with mannys flesh, for rather thci wolde be deed ; and thei be cleped wercwolfcs, for men •'i'jl.ie be war of hem. MS. Beat. 540.... | |
| 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 820
...cannibalism. According to an old English writer. " Ther ben somme that eten chyldren and men, and steth noon other flesh fro that tyme that thei be a-charmed...with mannys flesh, for rather thei wolde be deed." A later author informs us that " the were-wolves are certayne sorcerers, who, having annoynted the... | |
| Elliott O'Donnell - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...these climes will come as a surprise to many. Yet Halliwell, quoting from a Bodleian MS., says : " Ther ben somme that eten chyldren and men, and eteth...for rather thei wolde be deed ; and thei be cleped werewolfes for men shulde be war of them." Nor is this the only reference to them in ancient chronicles,... | |
| Rodney Gallop - 1936 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...an ancient manuscript preserved in the Bodleian Library offers an ingenious alternative etymology: "Ther ben somme that eten chyldren and men, and eteth...for rather thei wolde be deed: and thei be cleped werewolfes for men should be war of hem"). The belief current in England three centuries ago is thus... | |
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