Werewolves, magical hounds, and dog-headed men in Celtic literature : a typological study of shape-shifting /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bernhardt-House, Phillip A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Celtic literature > History and criticism. Werewolves in literature. Shapeshifting.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / by John Carey
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: The canid question
Celtic canids: The status quaestionis
Outline and methodology
Celtic canids: ordinary, renowned, and monstrous
Canids: ordinary
Canids: noteworthy
Canids: monstrous
Conclusions
Canids in serial shapeshifting
Serial shapeshifting in Wales
Serial shapeshifting in Ireland
Late instances of serial shapeshifting in Scotland and Brittany
Celtic lycanthropy, cynanthropy, and other canid therioanthropies
Metaphorical werewolves
Constitutional werewolves
"The werewolf's tale"
Transformation by spell or curse
"Threat" of werewolves
Cynocephali, cynocephaloids, and other mutts
Cynocephali: an introduction
"Doghead"
"Dogheads"
"Dog's heads"
Conclusions
Appendix one: canid terms and elements in personal names
Appendix two: Celtic canids in archaeology, classical sources and iconography
Appendix three: Celtic canids in legal sources
Appendix four: the hounds of the Fíanna
Appendix five: edition of "Conceand ingi Cathbaidh caim" with provisional translation.