Montague Summers, The Werewolf
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Summers, Montague. The Werewolf. First Edition. 1966. Book is in good condition; dust jacket is in very good condition minus condition—previous owner has written a name and date on the flyleaf, and there is a puncture to the boards (not visible through jacket), mild fading to the jacket spine.
Reverend Montague Summers promoted himself as a Catholic clergyman who hunted witches. Had he lived in middle ages, this would have been unremarkable. He came of age in the early 20th Century, however. For this book, he traveled throughout Europe scouring antique books and public records and interviewing subjects—all for the purpose of separating myth from reality in regard to the werewolf, in which to a certain extent he believed. He points out that the Vatican once did as well, citing a papal opinion in regard to whether the killing of a man-wolf constitutes murder.
“As old as time and as wide as the world, the belief in the werewolf by its very antiquity and its universality affords accumulated evidence that there is at least some extremely significant and vital element of truth in this dateless tradition.”
--Montague Summers
Reverend Montague Summers promoted himself as a Catholic clergyman who hunted witches. Had he lived in middle ages, this would have been unremarkable. He came of age in the early 20th Century, however. For this book, he traveled throughout Europe scouring antique books and public records and interviewing subjects—all for the purpose of separating myth from reality in regard to the werewolf, in which to a certain extent he believed. He points out that the Vatican once did as well, citing a papal opinion in regard to whether the killing of a man-wolf constitutes murder.
“As old as time and as wide as the world, the belief in the werewolf by its very antiquity and its universality affords accumulated evidence that there is at least some extremely significant and vital element of truth in this dateless tradition.”
--Montague Summers
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