ABSTRACT
The idea that the soul of man or woman has the power to leave its human form and enter into that of its “affinity” or appear in the shape of a were-beast, is as firmly held among these people as was our childhood’s faith that the soul passed at death into the body of a winged angel. Countless persons are ready to swear to cases of metamorphosis which, they declare, have come under their own observation, and are as unshaken in this belief as was Benvenuto Cellini in the existence of the salamander sporting in his grandfather’s fire.
