#TIL the curate who wrote the #Hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" also wrote "The Book of the Were-Wolves"

AND the "training up" of his lower class teenage fiancée into suitable curate marriage material was probably part of the inspiration for #GeorgeBernardShaw 's " #Pygmalion" (they were friends in later life)

AND he taught classes with a pet bat on his shoulder

AND he's the ancestor of comedian #JoshWiddicombe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Baring-Gould

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-were-wolves/

#Werewolf #SabineBaringGould