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Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., Werewolves, magical hounds, and dog-headed men in Celtic literature: a typological study of shape-shifting, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Werewolves, magical hounds, and dog-headed men in Celtic literature: a typological study of shape-shifting
Place
Lewiston, NY
Publisher
Edwin Mellen Press
Year
2010
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Abstract (cited)
This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources.
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Foreword by John Carey; Preface; Acknowledgements
[Ch. 1] “Introduction: the canid question”
Celtic canids: the status quaestionis; Outline and methodology;
[Ch. 2] “Celtic canids: ordinary, renowned, and monstrous”
Canids: ordinary; Canids: noteworthy; Canids: monstrous; Conclusions
[Ch. 3] “Canids in serial shapeshifting”
Serial shapeshifting in Wales; Serial shapeshifting in Ireland; Late instances of serial shapeshifting in Scotland and Brittany
[Ch. 4] “Celtic lycanthropy, cynanthropy, and other canid therioanthropies”
Metaphorical werewolves; constitutional werewolves; “The werewolf’s tale”; transformation by spell or curse; the “threat” of werewolves
[Ch. 5] “Cynocephali, cynocephaloids, and other mutts”
Cynocephali: an introduction; “Doghead”; “Dogheads”; “Dog's Heads”; Conclusions
[Ch. 6] “Conclusion”
[Appendix 1] “Canid terms and elements in personal names”
[Appendix 2] “Celtic canids in archaeology, classical sources and iconography”
[Appendix 3] “Celtic canids in legal sources”
[Appendix 4] “The hounds of the fíanna
[Appendix 5] “Edition of “Conceand ingi Cathbaidh caim” with provisional translation”
Bibliography; Index
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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