oup, et si ma peau ne parait pas etre celle d'un loup, c'est parce
qu'elle est retournee et que les poils sont en dedans.--Pour s'assurer
du fait, on coupa le malheureux aux differentes parties du corps, on lui
emporta les bras et les jambes."--Taine, De l'Intelligence, Tom. II.
p. 203. See the account of Slavonic werewolves in Ralston, Songs of the
Russian People, pp. 404-418.]

[Footnote 83: Mr. Cox, whose scepticism on obscure points in history
rather surpasses that of Sir G. C. Lewis, dismisses with a sneer
the subject of the Berserker madness, observing that "the unanimous
testimony of the Norse historians is worth as much and as little as the
convictions of Glanvil and Hale on the reality of witchcraft." I have
not the special knowledge requisite for pronouncing an opinion on this
point, but Mr. Cox's ordinary methods of disposing of such questions
are not such as to make one feel obliged to accept his bare assertion,
unaccompanied by critical arguments. The madness of the bearsarks may,
no doubt, be the same thing us the frenzy of Herakles; but something
more than mere dogmatism is needed to prove it.]

[Footnote 84: Williams, Superstitions of Witchcraft, p. 179. See a
parallel case of a cat-woman, in Thorpe's Northern Mythology, II. 26.
"Certain witches at Thurso for a long time tormented an honest fellow
under the usual form of cats, till one night he put them to flight with
his broadsword, and cut off the leg of one less nimble than the rest;
taking it up, to his amazement he found it to be a woman's leg, and
next morning he discovered the old hag its owner with but one leg
left."--Tylor, Primitive Culture, I. 283.]

[Footnote 85: "The mare in nightmare means spirit, elf, or nymph;
compare Anglo-Saxon wudurmaere (wood-mare) = echo."--Tylor, Primitive
Culture, Vol. II. p. 173.]

[Footnote 86: See Kuhn, Herabkunft des Feuers, p. 91; Weber, Indische
Studien. I. 197; Wolf, Beitrage zur deutschen Mythologie, II. 233-281
Muller, Chips, II. 114-128.]

[Footnote 87: Baring-Gould, Curious Myths, II. 207.]

[Footnote 88: The word nymph itself means "cloud-maiden," as is
illustrated by the kinship between the Greek numph and the Latin nubes.]

[Footnote 89: This is substantially identical with the stories of Beauty
and the Beast, Eros and Psyche, Gandharba Sena, etc.]

[Footnote 90: The feather-dress reappears in the Arabian story of Hasssn
of El-Basrah, who by stealing it secures possession of the Jinniya. See