Human Animals

Human Animals is a discursive, while at the same time an entertaining volume on a theme of peculiar significance. As to whether or not a human soul may enter into the body of an animal, or the soul of an animal that of a human person, is and has always been a subject shrouded in mystery and covered over with grave doubts and more or less heated arguments for and against the idea. In the present work on the transformation of humans and animals into other shapes, the author satisfies himself with quoting innumerable examples, ancient and modern, belonging to many races and climes, leaving the reader to judge for himself if he is for or against this remarkable concept of the passage of souls into other living forms. There are chapters on the ''Bush-Soul," on human souls in animal bodies, on animal dances, the "Were-Wolf Trials," on witches, on cat and cock phantoms, on the "Phantasmal Ghost," each and all of which serve to make interesting reading.