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His mourning followers found the body, but searched 

 for some time for the head, without success ; although 

 they made the woods resound with their cries of " Where 

 artow, Edward ? " After a few days' search, a voice 

 answered their inquiries, with " Here, here, here." And, 

 guided by the supernatural voice, they came upon the 

 King's head, surrounded by a glory, and watched over, so 

 as to protect it from all harm by a WOLF! The head 

 was applied deftly to the body, which it joined naturally ; 

 indeed, so good a job was it, that the junction could only 

 be perceived by a thin red, or purple, line. 



It must be said of this wolf, that he was thorough, for 

 not content with having preserved the head of the Saintly 

 King from harm, he meekly followed the body to St. 

 Edmund's Bury, and waited there until the funeral ; 

 when he quietly trotted back, none hindering him, to the 

 forest. 



WERE-WOLVES. 



But of all extraordinary stories connected with the 

 Wolf, is the belief which existed for many centuries, (and 

 in some parts of France still does exist, under the form 

 of the " Loup-garou,") and which is mentioned by many 

 classical authors Marcellus Sidetes, Virgil, Herodotus, 

 Pomponius Mela, Ovid, Pliny, Petronius, &c. of men 

 being able to change themselves into wolves. This was 

 called Lycanthropy, from two Greeks words signifying 

 wolf, and man, and those who were thus gifted, were 

 dignified by the name of Versipellis, or able to change 

 the skin. It must be said, however, for Pliny, amongst 

 classical authors, that although he panders sufficiently 

 to popular superstition to mention Lycanthropy, and 

 quotes from others some instances of it, yet he writes : 



