SOURCE: "Where There Is Nothing, There Is God" (1896) by W. B. Yeats

DESCRIPTION: "'Do not open, for it may be a man-wolf, and he may devour us all."

PLOT: A stranger comes to an abbey where the monks put him to work pushing the grist-mill. After the stranger comes, the monks notice that the stupidest child begins to grow starter. One of the monks follows the child to see how this is happening. He is visiting the stranger who turns out to be a saint.

WEREWOLF FACTS: Not a lot of werewolfery in this story. There is a bit at the beginning when the monks are afraid to open the door because it might be a werewolf. (Similar to the beginning of Clemence Housman's "The Werewolf" published the same year.) There is also a suggestion that the saint may have been living in the wild as a wolf.

INTERESTING FACTS: Yeats was not interested in the dark side of things so much as the light of sainthood. This story does kinda suggest: "What if Saint Francis of Assissi had been a shape-changer?"