The third story is as follows:-A Lycanthropist was brought before a judge and accused of witchcraft, but as nothing could be proved against him, the judge ordered one of his peasants to visit the man in his prison, and to worm the truth out of him, and to persuade the prisoner to assist him in revenging himself upon another peasant who had injured him; and this was to be effected by destroying one of the man's cows; but the peasant was to urge the prisoner to do it secretly, and, if possible, in the disguise of a wolf.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould
Forestus pronounces the man to be a Lycanthropist, but he does not say that the poor fellow believed himself to be transformed into a wolf.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould
Indeed the exhaustion consequent on a were-wolf raid was so great that the Lycanthropist was often confined to his bed for days, and could hardly move hand or foot, much in the same way as the berserkir and ham rammir in the North were utterly prostrated after their fit had left them.
"The Book of Were-Wolves"
Sabine Baring-Gould
