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I'm looking for historical (not new age) books on authentic lycanthropy.
In the wikipedia article about the subject, I found a few I'm interested in:

De Lycanthropia: An vere illi, ut fama est, luporum & aliarum bestiarum formis induantur.

Dialogue de la Lycanthropie: Ou transformation d'hommes en loups, vulgairement dits loups-garous, et si telle se peut faire

De la Lycanthropie, Transformation et Extase des Sorciers

Are English translations of these books available? And where can I find hard copies? (Even if it is in French).

I'm also open to any historical books citing werewolf/witch trials.

Thanks in advance
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Montague Summers - The Werewolf in Lore and Legend


the Greeks
Herodotus - Histories.
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Virgil - The Eclogues
Pliny the Elder. VIII. The Natural History
Petronius - satyricon

Oxford classic library has most if not all of those books for a fair price and with good translations. You should be able to find them at any internet store of your choosing.

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Thank you very much! Amazon here I come
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I'll add witch trial books here tomorrow, only just saw this thread.
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Aplogies for the delay in response.

This page is in German, so I had to translate it to understand, but it has some useful insights. Valais and Val Camonica are two places where wolf-witchery was claimed to have occured, though there are more, including early Ausburg trials, I think. I'll go check that and add here as I find the right content. I studied this last year, but am a bit rusty atm.

http://www.elmar-lorey.de/Prozesse.htm

These articles are interesting also,

Battling demons with medical authority: werewolves, physicians and rationalization
Nadine Metzger:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090416/

Werewolf. The Images and Trials in France and Bedburg (1500 – 1610)
Ying Tung Lo

http://jultika.oulu.fi/files/nbnfioulu-201311211904.pdf

I'll bring books later.
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The Esoteric Codex, Shapeshifters...

https://goo.gl/MiuvIy

Werewolves, witches and and wandering spirits, traditional Europe:

https://goo.gl/36zwna

Werewolf histories, Livonia/North:

https://goo.gl/bvZf1b

These are just excerpts of interest, but the books are decent sources.

More later.
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