{ "item_title" : "The Werewolf - His Science and Practice", "item_author" : [" Montague Summers "], "item_description" : "By what means was a man thought to take the wolf's shape - by salve, by girdle, by the demon's gift or an ancient curse? A methodical inquiry into the reputed craft and nature of the werewolf.Taken from Montague Summers' The Werewolf (1933), this volume sets out the supposed methods of the werewolf: the means of transformation, the powers and appetites of the beast, and the theories advanced to explain it. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 - 1948) was an English author and clergyman celebrated for his earnest studies of witches, werewolves, and vampires, all of which he held to be quite real; in 1928 he produced the first English translation of the notorious witch-hunters' manual, the Malleus Maleficarum.This edition features: The reputed techniques of transformation, from enchanted girdle and magic salve to the demon's compact and the inherited curse.The nature, strength, and hungers of the werewolf, and the fate held to await it in life and in death.Summers' survey of classical, Pagan, and Christian theories, weighed with his characteristic learning and belief.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/44/740/699/1447406990_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "27.99", "online_price" : "27.99", "our_price" : "27.99", "club_price" : "27.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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