Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology
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The wolf is a common motif in the foundational mythologies and cosmologies of peoples throughout Eurasia and North America (corresponding to the historical extent of the habitat of the gray wolf). The obvious attribute of the wolf is its nature of a predator, and correspondingly it is strongly associated with danger and destruction, making it the symbol of the warrior on one hand, and that of the devil on the other. The modern trope of the Big Bad Wolf is a development of this. The wolf holds great importance in the cultures and religions of the nomadic peoples, both of the Eurasian steppe and North American Plains.
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See also
- Big Bad Wolf
- Foxes in popular culture
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Werewolf
- Wolf of Gubbio
- Wolves in fiction
- Wolves in heraldry
- White Fang
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