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Excerpt from The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction It on the head. It fell moaning on the ground. Then he felt a sudden pity for the animal. He bore it to the hermitage, and laid it on his own bed. Whilst searching for some salve for the wounds, he heard a human. Voice come from the bed. He looked, and saw, instead Of the wolf, a beautiful damsel, with wounds on the head and hand. She told him that she had been sent by her father, who was a wizard, to roam about the country in the shape of a wolf; and it was evident that the holiness of the hermitage had restored her to human shape. She is cured by the young man, and, a mutual attachment arising, they agree to marry. Before the wedding-day they stroll to look at the place where they originally met. They incautiously cross the frontier. They are at once surrounded by sprites and witches, and she is snatched away from him for ever. He pines away, and dies, and is buried at his own request at the spot where he met the white wolf. After his death the howling Of a wolf, mingled with the wailing of a woman, was Often heard at the grave. Men and women have frequently the power in romance of becoming were wolves. This, for instance, is shown in one of the 'lays of Marie.' In one of the 'persian Tales, ' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.