Folklore

Shawn Macomber / Nashua Telegraph / October 16, 2005 Recent happenings in Canisborough, N.H., are enough to make even the most lenient pet owner start demanding the imposition of a draconian leash law. But if they get serious they’re going to have to get some big leashes and brave dog catchers. That’s another way of […]

Ryan Parkinson, Kyle West, Michael Delahoyde (and Jill Missal, Wolf Song of Alaska Volunteer) The ferocity of the wild wolf has long been threatening to humans, for in many ways wolves are a direct threat [or challenge] to man’s [puffed up notion of his own] dominance. Not only do wolves prey upon animals that are

Shawn Lindseth / Heckler Spray / March 20, 2006 Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, ghosts, myths, strange facts or just plain weird, weird goings-on. Does anyone remember the Salem Massachusetts witch burnings of 1692? Yeah us neither, hecklerspray was barely beginning to walk back

ABC News / August 2, 2006 We’ve all heard the werewolf legends: When the moon grows full, so goes the legend, a man is transformed into a beast he grows hair, and acquires awesome powers. But what if it weren’t the light of the moon but rather genetics that gave the werewolves of legend all

Edwin Wollert / Education Coordinator / Wolf Song of Alaska I admit it. I can still clearly visualize Jack Nicholson, Lon Chaney Jr., and David Naughton all transmogrifying into something else. They all display very startled, even painful, expressions at the start of these extreme bodily changes. Chaney had it relatively easy: the makeup artists

Edwin Wollert / Education Coordinator / Wolf Song of Alaska It has been close to a full decade now since Clarissa Estes initially published her bestseller, Women Who Run With the Wolves, regarding traditional feminine archetypes which have largely been ignored or forgotten in contemporary times. The emphasis in this book and others like it

Source: Unknown / Anonymous The moon was shining very bright one night when a lean, half-starved wolf, whose ribs were almost sticking through his skin, chanced to meet a plump, well-fed house dog. After the first compliments had been passed between them, the wolf inquired: “How is it, cousin dog, that you look so sleek

Shane Richmond / Telegraph Media Group Shane Richmond is Head of Technology (Editorial) for Telegraph Media Group. Having first joined the Telegraph in 1998, he left to become Editor of an internet start-up before returning in 2001. He writes about media and technology.  We often hear that new media poses a threat to our children. How

Betty Bayé / The Courier-Journal / Louisville KY I’ll huff and puff and I’ll blow your house down. That’s what the big, bad wolf said to scare the three little pigs the wolf hoped to have as his dinner that day. The first two little pigs had reason to be afraid. They’d built their houses

By: Ellen J. Stekert English, Professor at the University of Minnesota. She is past president of the American Folklore Society and she has written numerous articles and books on folklore. We all live in a world of symbols. The symbolism embodied by the wolf is vast and compelling. Wolves evoke powerful feelings in us, and