[762] J.J.M. de Groot, The Religious System of China, v. (Leyden, 1907) p. 548.

[763] A. C. Kruijt, “De weerwolf bij de Toradja’s van Midden-Celebes,” Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Landen Volkenkunde, xli. (1899) pp. 548-551, 557-560.

[764] A.C.  Kruijt, op. cit. pp. 552 sq.

[765] A.C.  Kruijt, op. cit. pp. 553.  For more evidence of the belief in were-wolves, or rather in were-animals of various sorts, particularly were-tigers, in the East Indies, see J.J.  M. de Groot, “De Weertijger in onze Kolonien en op het oostaziatische Vasteland,” Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie, xlix. (1898) pp. 549-585; G.P.  Rouffaer, “Matjan Gadoengan,” Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indie 1. (1899) pp. 67-75; J. Knebel, “De Weertijger op Midden-Java, den Javaan naverteld,” Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde, xli. (1899) pp. 568-587; L.M.F.  Plate, “Bijdrage tot de kennis van de lykanthropie bij de Sasaksche bevolking in Oost-Lombok,” Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-Land- en Volkenkunde, liv. (1912) pp. 458-469; G.A.  Wilken, “Het animisme bij de volken van den Indischen Archipel,” Verspreide Geschriften (The Hague, 1912), iii. 25-30.

[766] Ernst Marno, Reisen im Gebiete des blauen und weissen Nil (Vienna, 1874), pp. 239 sq.

[767] Petronius, Sat. 61 sq. (pp. 40 sq., ed.  Fr. Buecheler,*[3] Berlin, 1882).  The Latin word for a were-wolf (versipellis) is expressive:  it means literally “skin-shifter,” and is equally appropriate whatever the particular animal may be into which the wizard transforms himself.  It is to be regretted that we have no such general term in English.  The bright moonlight which figures in some of these were-wolf stories is perhaps not a mere embellishment of the tale but has its own significance; for in some places it is believed that the transformation of were-wolves into their bestial shape takes place particularly at full moon.  See A. de Nore, Coutumes, Mythes et Traditions des Provinces de France (Paris and Lyons, 1846), pp. 99, 157; J.L.M.  Nogues, Les Moeurs d’autrefois en Saintonge et en Aunis (Saintes, 1891), p. 141.

[768] J.G.  Campbell, Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1902), p. 6:  “In carrying out their unhallowed cantrips, witches assumed various shapes.  They became gulls, cormorants, ravens, rats, mice, black sheep, swelling waves, whales, and very frequently cats and hares.”  To this list of animals into which witches can turn themselves may be added horses, dogs, wolves, foxes, pigs, owls, magpies, wild geese, ducks, serpents, toads, lizards, flies, wasps, and butterflies.  See A. Wuttke, Der deutsche Volksaberglaube*[2] (Berlin, 1869), p. 150 Sec. 217; L. Strackerjan, Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogthum Oldenburg (Oldenburg,