A Dark Anatomy by Robin Blake

Author:Robin Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

The werwoolfs are certayne sorcerors who having anoynted their bodies with an ointment which they make by the instinct of the devil, and putting on a certayne inchaunted girdle, doe not onely unto the view of others seeme as wolves, but to their owne thinking have both the shape and nature of wolves so long as they weare the said girdle. And they doe dispose themselves as very wolves in wourrying and killing most humane creatures.

My first thought was to take this immediately into the parlour and read it to Elizabeth. I quickly suppressed the impulse. I did not want to frighten her, but there was something else. I was more than a little ashamed at my own curiosity, and at the faint pulse of pleasure, repulsive but undeniable, that I felt when reading about this absurd hocus-pocus. So I quietly posted Verstegan back to his shelf, and hurriedly returned to the parlour.

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