A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture : Otten。The Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture | Amazon.com.br。The Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture: Otten。The Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture: Otten。A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture by Charollete Otten.- Publisher: Dorset Press, hardcover, first printing, like new condition.Rare and hard to find first edition. Valuable book.In the Introduction to the Reader, Charlotte Otten shows that the study of lycanthropy uncovers basic issues in human life the significance of violence and criminality, the role of the demonic in aberrant behavior, and ultimately the nature of good and evil. The implications for modern life are immediately apparent.Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic fiction. No rational person today believes that a human being can literally be morphosed into a wolf; therefore, in the absence of an historical context, the study of werewolves can appear to be a wayward pursuit of the perversely irrational and the sensational.This Reader provides the historical context.