For further information go to World of Ladywolf Welcome to my homepage and my humble tribute to an animal that alway fascinated me - the Wolf.
Few animals speaks to our imagination as wolves and they are surrounded by myths and misconceptions.
In Europe wolves have been hated and feared for centuries, hunted near extinction. In cultures which live in close connection to the nature around them wolves were not feared, but respected and admired for their hunting skill and intelligence. Everything low within the human nature was attributed to wolves, they came to represent the hostile and untamed wilderness, which was in opposition to the ordered and structured world that Man tried to create for herself. And since the wolf was in opposition with the World of Man it was also opposed to God, which meant that it became a symbol of the Devil and of evil in general. This image has lasted into this century resulting in an irrational fear of, and hate for, wolves.