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From: Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann <Friedrich-Wilhelm.Neumann at epost.de>
Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2003.01.28 (09) [E]

Hi Ron, Annette, Chris,

You wrote:

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> From: ANNETTE GIESBRECHT <beautyaround at email.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2003.01.27 (08) [E]
>
> It could be in the olden times, when food was scarce, especially in
winter,
> the wolves through desperation attacked people.  Also when most of their
> children died through various diseases, any attacked by a half starved
wolf
> was considered a major threat.
> Annette
>
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> From: Chris Ferguson <shoogly at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2003.01.27 (08) [E]
>
> Interesting question -there has been some talk in the last year about
> reintroducing wolves to Scotland -but I haven't heard anything for about a
> year or so -so don't think it is getting anywhere here. Personally I'd
like
> to see them introduced; Wolves were killed to extinction here in the
middle
> ages - because of peoples fears and ignorance of these animals. Wolves are
> naturally afraid of people and keep their distance. I think here there is
> more concern as to whether they would attack sheep and deer in the
Scottish
> Highlands.  It is a ice idea to have them back - but I think this  is seen
> as a "romantic" notion and it won't happen.  They are part of our "faunal
> heritage" and I'd like to see as much of that realistically back in
> Scotland.
>
> Chris Ferguson

Thanks!

Let us come back and again close our circle "Folklore" (thanks specially to
You, Ron, for "preparing the bed"!).

Are there more fairytales in the different LS-cultures, so  as in Germany,
concerning the "threatening and dreadful" wolf? Spontaneously I think about
(UG)"Rotkäppchen und der böse Wolf" (Grimm?) and (UG) "Der Wolf und die
sieben Geisslein". In both of them the wolf himself is old, seeming a little
bit sick, and, for that, very tricky! (Have a look on Your true words again,
Annette!).

When I remember my early day's literature (Greece, Latin, mediterranian
sagas, Ilias, Odyssee) I find many stories mentioning the wolf and the herds
of sheep, cattle and gouts. There too wolves always had been a threat, but
those old shepherds were'nt very afraid of them at all. They just had a
stick, a katapult/slingshot for those bad wild animals, and I don't remember
for the moment just one story human beings were really injured by a wolf, in
that times literature. (Just in the opposite to our cultures: Romus and
Remulus)

In short: I would like to hear literally stories/tales about wolves from
other lowland-areas; I think, the wolf himself became more and more an
imagiationally threat because of his absence in reality since the
middle-ages. I assume to have found out, that people in regions where they
still have to live with them haven't got so many dreadful stories about
them.

Regards

Fiete.

(Friedrich W. Neumann)

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