The Wolf play as a motif in the mythologies, legends and fairy tales as well as in literature and art of many nations a central role. This reflects the ambivalent attitude of people towards the wolf. On the one hand, he admired him as a strong and superior animal, on the other hand, it projects to the most diverse aggressive animal fears.
totem culture
appears in many cultures of the wolf as a totem, such as the Indian tribe of the Tlingit, among the Iroquois, with the Turkmen and the Mongols. The Uzbeks and the Huns derived their origin from the wolf, the wolf was considered as the first mother old Turk.
Bible
Already in the Bible is the wolf repeatedly portrayed as the herds of ferocious, dangerous animals, such as in Gen 49.27, Jer 5:6; Jn 10.12. If "the wolf with the lamb" is, this means, accordingly, the connection between unequals and therefore is used as a parable of Jesus Sirach of conduct between sinners and righteous, Sir 13.21. Isaiah, however, uses the utopian image as a metaphor for the coming of the kingdom of God, Isaiah 65.25.
Greek mythology
The Greek goddess Hecate, who stood with a dark sorcery and witchcraft related, was forming in the Art is often represented in the company of three wolves. The Greek king Lycaon was transformed by Zeus into a wolf. The she-wolf suckling
The founders of Rome, the twins Romulus and Remus should have been suckled by a she-wolf and raised. The story is based on a misunderstanding, however: The word lupa is Latin for both "wolf" and "whore". This word was originally Larentia, the easygoing hurende wife meant Faustulus the shepherd, who reared the brothers. It has similar traditions from the Indian space; the Slovak Stretching and Waligor Wyrwidub and the founder of the ancient Persian Empire, Cyrus II, should have been raised by wolves. The modern design of the wolf children has its origins here.
Germanic mythology
In Germanischer or Nordic mythology the god Odin wins next two ravens and the wolves Geri and Freki begotten pursuing a belligerent and brave animals to fight and throw himself on the fallen bodies. Sun and moon will be chased by the wolf Skoll brothers or hate. Both have another brother named Managarm that feeds on the flesh of the dead. The Fenris Wolf plays at the end of the world Ragnarök a crucial role. He swallows at the beginning of Götterdämmerung the moon and later Odin. The wolf has Ysengrin myth of many characteristics of the wily fox. Germanic origin, is also the figure of the werewolf, who temporarily assumed, irrespective of his life in civil society wolf form.
Other crops
the Chinese of the Wolf was considered a symbol of cruelty, gluttony and greed.
The Native Americans know the Waheela a kind of spirit in the shape of a giant wolf.
literature
In fables of ancient authors such as Aesop and Phaedrus, in particular the materials later Jean de La Fontaine and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing took up, negative human traits as greed, belligerence, treachery and cunning are projected onto the wolf. In The wolf and the lamb such as the wolf looks with all the power an excuse to disrupt the flow of drinking with him at the Lamb. In lion, wolf and fox is a plot instigated by the wolf back to him. In The Wolf and the Crane he cheats a helpful bird to his reward. In The wolf and the dog he is representing the vulnerable, but free life as opposed to living under the yoke of domestic dog. Also known is the boy who cried wolf the shepherd boy who so often for help Wolves for allegedly shouted to no one helped him, when one day a wolf really tore his flock.
as a negative, malevolent figure of the wolf appears in most stories. In Grimm's Little Red Riding Hood as he surreptitiously the trust of a little girl then eats the grandmother and Little Red Riding Hood in the end will devour itself. In The wolf and the seven little goats he obtains using adulterated by chalk voice access to the house of a family of goats and devours all her children except one. In both cases, the victims rescued and the wolf killed. Some tales of the Brothers Grimm (The wolf and man, The wolf and the fox, the fox and the women's gossip reports) other wolves, which their greed and aggression will be costly: they are victims of both the superior power of the human body such as the cunning of foxes. From the Anglo-Saxon finally comes the tale of the wolf and the three little pigs.
place in modern literature, the Wolf Wolf particular motive in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book and Jack London (Call of the Wild, White Fang). In Hermann Hesse's novel Steppenwolf, finally, the wolf motif is used as a metaphor for the animal, the drive-controlled side of the lonely and misanthropic protagonist Harry Haller . A well-known fantasy novel by Katherine Recheis titled The White Wolf.
comic and cartoon
In comics and cartoons appear frequently on wolves. In Soviet cartoon rabbit and wolf playing with a bad, clumsy wolf and a good rabbit.
the Disney cartoon Three Little Pigs a lanky, black fur-term wolf wants with colorful overalls and slouch hat, the little house umblasen the three little pigs. For those of straw and wood he manages this, not so however in the stone. In Aufgreifung of the lining of Little Red Riding Hood motif he approaches the piggy in the elevator of an old woman. The short film also included the written by Frank Churchill famous song Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf .
the Disney comic Lil 'Bad Wolf tries an evil wolf named Zeke (German: Ede ) failed to shape his boy in his own image: Instead of the small close friendship closes with the little pigs.
enters another villainous members of the genus on the Disney film The big bad wolf . He also has a guest appearance in the Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Polo Team played in 1936 in which Disney characters to animated versions of famous actors of that time Polo.
to call are In this context, the wolf figures Lupo, Lupinchen and Eusebia from Rolf Kaukas Series Fix and Foxi of 1953.
Also in the books based on Runer Jonssens animated series Vicky the Viking men often come before the 1974 wolves, starved animals grotesquely shaggy leanness, chasing the frightened boy Viking Wickie .
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