Human Animals

by Frank Hamel

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297 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1915

Reviews

[K. K · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating book about shape-shifters and witches and werewolfs and all other similar things . Everybody who is into that can hear about history about them encounters . Cryptid fans definitely love that .

[MacWithBooksonMountains Marcus · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an older book about shapeshifting human. Well researched, it gives many documented examples from the beginning of documented history

[BugferBrains · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cool collection of old shapeshifter and witch/wizard myths, though I'd take it with a grain of salt. There's clear favor for Western culture and their Christian-centric folklore (even calling other societies "primitive") and some of the information is juuuuust off from being correct ( for example, in chapter 17, "Human Serpents", it makes a brief mention of the Chinese god Foki, which is a misspelling of its true name, Fu Xi). It also gets a bit repetitive further down the line with its stories; a great chunk of them can be summed up with "once upon a time there was a woman who was pursued by a man who wished to marry her, he discovered she was a witch who could shapeshift and she was either punished for it or the man succeeded in marrying her by any means necessary, the end". The book could've benefited from a few tales cut out from it, I think. But other than that, it served as good fantasy inspiration and was overall fairly interesting.