CONTENTS

1. Titlepage
2. Copyright
3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1: Bear Shamans and Plant Healers
   1. Understanding the Nature of Animals
   2. Animal Allies
   3. The Plant Healers’ Teacher
   4. The Bear Spirit Posture
5. Chapter 2: Bear Caves and Neanderthals
   1. An Enigmatic Woman
   2. Stone Age Hunters and Bear Shamans
6. Chapter 3: Bear Ancestors
   1. Osborn (Asbjørn), the Divine Bear
   2. Bear Children
   3. Golden Bears
7. Chapter 4: Forest Maidens and Feral Mountain People
   1. Glutton and Gourmet
   2. Bear Love and Matriarchy
8. Chapter 5: Meeting up with Maheonhovan
   1. A Bear Is Not a Tail-Tucking Dog
   2. Shining Light in the Bear’s Soul
9. Chapter 6: Grandmothers’ Stories
10. Chapter 7: The Cave, the Bear, and the Woman
    1. The Strength of Those Raised on Bear’s Milk
    2. A Bear-Like Mother Hulda, or Mother Goose
11. Chapter 8: The Vital Spirit of the Vegetation
    1. Bloody Sacrifices
    2. “Straw-Bear” and “Pea-Bear”
12. Chapter 9: The Bear King of the Celts
    1. The Wheel with Eight Spokes
    2. The Festival of Light
    3. May Joy and August Fires
    4. Modraniht (Mother’s Night)
13. Chapter 10: The Guardian of the Treasures
    1. The Croesus of the Animal Realm
    2. Krishna Humbles the Bear King
    3. Zalmoxis and Immortality
    4. Master of Fire
14. Chapter 11: Berserkers and Guardians of the Threshold
15. Chapter 12: The Heavenly Trail of Ursa Major
    1. The Power That Moves the Heavens
    2. The Guest from the Twelfth Heaven
    3. The Forbidden Name
    4. Artemis’s Children
    5. The Once and Future King
16. Chapter 13: The Warrior Bear
    1. Berserkers and Ulfhedinn
    2. Fylgia, the Follower Spirit
    3. The War of the Animals
    4. The Chieftain of the Animals
17. Chapter 14: Bear Saints and Devils
    1. The Messenger of the Age of Pisces
    2. The Bear as a Porter and Plowman
    3. The Bear Goddess in Nun’s Attire
    4. Forest Demons and Malicious Wild Animals
    5. Brother Klaus’s Bear of Light
18. Chapter 15: Bear Plants, Bear Medicine
    1. Plants That Induce Sleep
    2. A Master of Botany
    3. Bear’s Garlic, Bear Leek, or Ramsons
    4. Clubmoss
    5. Bearberry
    6. Burdock
    7. Bear’s Milk, Licorice, and Hogweed
19. Chapter 16: Bear Fat and Bear Gall
    1. The Bear’s Charisma
    2. The Cure-All
    3. Bear Fat
    4. Amber
20. Chapter 17: Rituals of Departure: Reconciliation with the Bear Spirit
21. Chapter 18: Places of Bear Power
    1. Smokey Bear and Yellowstone
    2. Salmon Gourmets on the McNeil River
    3. A Guest from Heaven
    4. Visiting the King of the Forest
22. Chapter 19: Bear-opolis—Berne (City of Bears), Switzerland
    1. Bears Who Have Become Human
    2. Duke Berchtold and Noble Lady Mechthildis
    3. The Patron Saint
23. Chapter 20: Teddy Bear and Winnie-the-Pooh
    1. The Dumb Bear
    2. The President and the First Teddy Bear
    3. The Wise Bear of Little Understanding
24. Chapter 21: Encyclopedia of Famous Bears
    1. Aloysius
    2. Baloo
    3. Barnaby Bear (Rasmus Klump)
    4. Bart
    5. Ben (Bozo)
    6. The Berliner Bear
    7. The Bernese Bear
    8. Care Bears
    9. Dancing Bears
    10. Ewoks
    11. Fozzie Bear
    12. Gentle Ben
    13. Goldilocks and the Three Bears
    14. Gummy Bears
    15. Paddington Bear
    16. The Russian Bear
    17. Smokey Bear
    18. Winnie-the-Pooh
    19. Yogi Bear
25. Afterword
26. Endnotes
27. Bibliography
28. Index
29. About the Author

Guide

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Front Matter
4. Introduction
5. Chapter 1: Bear Shamans and Plant Healers
6. Start Reading
7. Chapter 2: Bear Caves and Neanderthals
8. Chapter 3: Bear Ancestors
9. Chapter 4: Forest Maidens and Feral Mountain People
10. Chapter 5: Meeting up with Maheonhovan
11. Chapter 6: Grandmothers’ Stories
12. Chapter 7: The Cave, the Bear, and the Woman
13. Chapter 8: The Vital Spirit of the Vegetation
14. Chapter 9: The Bear King of the Celts
15. Chapter 10: The Guardian of the Treasures
16. Chapter 11: Berserkers and Guardians of the Threshold
17. Chapter 12: The Heavenly Trail of Ursa Major
18. Chapter 13: The Warrior Bear
19. Chapter 14: Bear Saints and Devils
20. Chapter 15: Bear Plants, Bear Medicine
21. Chapter 16: Bear Fat and Bear Gall
22. Chapter 17: Rituals of Departure: Reconciliation with the Bear Spirit
23. Chapter 18: Places of Bear Power
24. Chapter 19: Bear-opolis—Berne (City of Bears), Switzerland
25. Chapter 20: Teddy Bear and Winnie-the-Pooh
26. Chapter 21: Encyclopedia of Famous Bears
27. Afterword
28. Endnotes
29. Bibliography
30. Index
31. About the Author
32. About North Atlantic Books