Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly, and off we go.

In honor of Halloween and the spooky season, tonight were relaxing with the Book of Werewolves, being an account of terrible superstition, by Sabine Bering Gould, first published in 1865,

by Smith Elderingco, London.

Let's begin.

The Book of Werewolves, Chapter 1

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