His father considered his ill-health as a good reason for another European tour. Here his time was ended by a bronchial disease of the kind that was to plague him throughout his long life. He only spent about two years in formal schooling, first at King's College School in London (then located in Somerset House) and then, for a few months, at Warwick Grammar School (now Warwick School). Because the family spent much of his childhood travelling round Europe, most of his education was by private tutors. The eldest son of Edward Baring-Gould and his first wife, Sophia Charlotte (née Bond), he was named after a great-uncle, the Arctic explorer Sir Edward Sabine.
Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter. One of the most oft-cited references, this book is an essential and primary document on the subject of lycanthropy. His real-life case studies examine the bloody deeds of cannibals and grave desecrators, including an extended treatment of the crimes of Gilles de Retz, the notorious associate of Joan of Arc, who was convicted and executed for necrosadistic crimes. He draws upon his impressive store of scholarship to trace lycanthropy among the ancients and onward through medieval and latter-day Europe. Sabine Baring-Gould, a prominent Victorian theologian, was a gifted and original thinker who possessed a vast knowledge of folklore and mythology. Combining a vast body of observation, myth, and lore, it explores the tradition of werewolves as a widespread and persistent theme throughout history. The Book of Werewolves was the first serious academic study of lycanthropy and "blood-lust" written in English.
With the shocking histories of ten famous cases, this classic blends science, superstition, and fiction to tell the full story of the werewolves among us.
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