Wolves in Mythology & Folklore

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Wolves are among the most successful predators on earth, known for their hunting prowess, incredible adaptability, and the loyalty that hold for one another within their packs. Mankind has admired and feared the wolf since the stone age. Humanity's perception of the wolf is reflected in countless stories from Europe, Asia, and North America. Some are very positive, shown as gods or companions to gods, guardians, and even raising orphaned children as their own. Others, however, paint the wolf as a monstrous and villainous figure, such as the Norse beast Fenrir, the Big Bad Wolf of European fairy tales, and even the werewolf!
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MYTHOLOGY HAS BEEN TOLD AND RETOLD IN MANY FORMS ACROSS TIME, STORIES AND ACCOUNTS MAY VARY.
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"Wild Spirit"
"The Elder Path" by Adrian von Ziegler
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@Ootek_Imora 10 месяцев назад

As an autistic person obsessed with wolves, I'm always happy to see more positive wolf representation, thank you

@StellaMagic100 10 месяцев назад

I’m on the spectrum too.

@BillAndTheCoolguys 10 месяцев назад

voices of a new age. dont let anyone stop you from loving

@tankenming4760 10 месяцев назад

#wolfwarriorsforever 🐺🌙

@AspieVert 10 месяцев назад

Hell yeah brother!

@amterasutenma2547 10 месяцев назад

Wolves forever! 💕

@xavierfigueroa192 10 месяцев назад

Wolves Forever🐺🐺🔥

@ethancole1584 10 месяцев назад

The wolf is one of my favorite animals alongside elephants, bears, sharks, dragons, dinosaurs, owls, and big black cats.

@Dragontamer135 10 месяцев назад

I love most animals and I love wolves, dragons, birds, canines, felines, ferrets, dolphins and so on.

@timc4765 7 месяцев назад

I love wolves, raccoons, komodo dragons, and children with down syndrome

@Dragontamer135 7 месяцев назад

@@timc4765 the last one wasn't very nice

@timc4765 7 месяцев назад

@@Dragontamer135 you're so cruel

@Dragontamer135 7 месяцев назад

@@timc4765 ?????

@emilyeshelman5216 10 месяцев назад

"Wolves have been demonized, perhaps more than any other animal on earth"...Snakes: Um, hold our rodentssss.... (another creature I vote should be next in this series) Good video.

@LacertaZilla2024 10 месяцев назад

Finally one about Wolves 🐺 thank you

@kathywolf4558 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for pointing out that the wolves are integral to the environment. They are good for the environment on many levels. Well presented.

@Chrisxerri 10 месяцев назад

You could easily argue that it is man who are the bloodthirsty, vicious monsters, as werewolves are men turned into wolves.

@lisamariehennessey4532 10 месяцев назад

I second that 👏👏

@ethansimmons3003 10 месяцев назад

Awooo 🐺🌙

@noellehollar4347 10 месяцев назад

A video about my favorite animal and my favorite pastime (folklore and mythology) the same week as my birthday? AMAZING!! I really appreciate the way you fairly represented wolves here. They definitely get a bad reputation but have such diverse characterizations across mythology, and you gave an excellent overview here. I didn't even know about the Inuit legends, so that was a special treat! Also, I've probably said it before, but it bears repeating: I love your narration style. It's very captivating and dynamic depending on what you're discussing at the time. For example, I love the inflection on, "The wolf huffed...and puffed...and blew the house down!" It's the voice of a natural storyteller and adds a great component to each video.

@lisamariehennessey4532 10 месяцев назад

I second that 🤟🤟👏🌟

@SilverWolfMage 10 месяцев назад

After a bad day yesterday, anniversary of my mom passing, and in general bad shift at work today... I'm so HAPPY to find this video! Thank you! ❤ I LOVE wolves!! 🐺🌛

@renaldoking6 10 месяцев назад

Wolves for life🐺🌙✊

@LacertaZilla2024 10 месяцев назад

I will never forgive those people who hunted down and slayed wolves because of some Beast of Gévaudan

@wolfguywerewolfchannel2099 10 месяцев назад

Wolf Power 🐺

@annabanana7987 10 месяцев назад

I wanna know more about the Turkish and Native American myths

@1992TheDiamondWolf 8 месяцев назад

American Indians now call Native American because of offensive people. 1800's Indians and white men had bunch of wars because white man stealing American Indians land and wasting Buffalo meat and letting it rotten

@bluewolvesstudios2822 10 месяцев назад

Ah...my Spirit Animal, :D. For that matter, this is really interesting.

@dragowolfraven3806 10 месяцев назад

Nice to see positive wolf representation. I love animal myths and legends. Wolves are one of my favorite animals along with dragons,cats(regular and big cats) along with others.

@CBMOA 10 месяцев назад

Ahhh Wolves are very beautiful creatures Scary, yes yet they’re still beautiful There’s a story how a pregnant woman was lost in a snowstorm and by the time she laid down, she woke up where a group of wolves have cuddled her to keep her warm and the baby inside (There are more details that I couldn’t remember but that’s all I heard of) Can you also do reviews of snakes how they’re were shunned and given negative treatment thanks to society, yet there are others who gave positive reviews about snakes and have tried to

@lisamariehennessey4532 10 месяцев назад

The story your on about was an evil one indeed and these beautiful animals came to her need when she was beaten to Nealy dead and about to give birth and dumped in the woods and thes beautiful creatures came and saved her and a child it is truly an eye opener to say the least , humans are the true monsters

@lisamariehennessey4532 10 месяцев назад

The wolf's wear said to have helped her as she passed out while giving birth that is if it's the same story as the one your talking about . There are many accounts of women being lost in the wood and wolf's coming to there rescue and as I write this I've never heard men being rescued but there has to be because of Tails were lone woods men have a wolf companion

@LacertaZilla2024 10 месяцев назад

I hate when wolves get a bad rap

@larrymccombs1271 10 месяцев назад

What about the wolves Black and White? The twin wolves of Cherokee Mythology Black is a fierce hunter and White is more of a protective wolf So Black and White are protective wolves who look after lost travelers and guide lost children back to their villages

@sarahclapp505 10 месяцев назад

Hearing and seeing the howling wolf at the end ❤❤❤❤❤

@TheAshenwolff 9 месяцев назад

I am a therian(indentifies as a ln animal not to be confused with furries)specifically I am a wolf therian. And seeing this episode makes me feel so warm inside. Thanks for talking about the impact of wolves in mythology

@autisticwitch7581 7 месяцев назад

I've been noticing that negative depictions of wolves are becoming less common in modern media and that werewolves are being depicted as neither inherently good for evil more often. Considering what we have done to wolves, I see this as a good thing. Presenting wolves as good or simply as animals in fiction will help us restore their population and help reduce the people hunting them.

@shirowolfanimator 9 месяцев назад

This video is awesome, for the wolf obsessed mythology fanatic like me

@angelicagaldos 7 месяцев назад

Wolves get a bad reputation by people who don't understand them. Wolves are spiritually gorgeous animals. Thank you for the awesome video.

@jakalope-sg8pu 10 месяцев назад

Sometimes I reimagine my favorite shows and movies with an extra character that's half human half wolf, and other times I've imagined a werewolf fighting evil, supernatural wolves are one of favorite things

@ashhikari626 10 месяцев назад

Wolves have always been my favorite canine species and I’ve always liked how certain cultures have key entities that take the form of a wolf such as Fenrir the son of Loki in Norse mythos and real world wolves have their own unnatural beauty as it were

@annlouiserainey4888 9 месяцев назад

The canines of today did come from wolves from the time of caveman.

@hazelhedgewitch2188 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for your calm voice 😊

@sarahhurst701 10 месяцев назад

I love wolves,. Thanks for this awesome video.❤

@elizabethdavis1696 10 месяцев назад

Please consider making a video on the mythology, superstitions, and stereotypes of redheads!

@wolfblood5596 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for making the video I asked for this is crazy!

@DaughterofAnubis 10 месяцев назад

How gorgeous!

@madamplatypus313 10 месяцев назад

Beautiful creatures. ❤❤❤ Also, so much straight up beastiality in Olden Times while people nowadays complain about romances with humanoid monsters.

@TheHeston83 10 месяцев назад

the Highschool i graduated from our nickname was the Wolves if anything Wolves are the Chad Canine Species

@bestbrothereverchoso3305 6 месяцев назад

Favorite modern day animal, Wolves are so cool

@WhiteSilverDemon 10 месяцев назад

A little curiosity about wolves: they don't actually mate for life, they may live with one partner for life if they don't get killed, but if this happens they mourn the loss and then mate with another partner. In a few cases it's even been observed that some wolves mate with multiple individuals, though it is reported as rare.

@zaktheadventuredog4024 10 месяцев назад

Wolves amazing animals! They very poplure in books as well. Thanks for this amazing video!!!! xxx

@puca7908 3 месяца назад

This channel is so great! I have always loved world mythologies, and your my favorite fix.

@CuteDwarf11 10 месяцев назад

Wolves and swans have always been my favorite creatures, followed by owls, jaguars and tigers.

@Re_Ruggero 9 месяцев назад

I think the fact that dogs our closest companions come from wolves is an important factor in our myth making

@annlouiserainey4888 9 месяцев назад

I agree. And it’s also important to see that wolves were reintroduced at Yellowstone National Park. This was because that all wolves were unfairly hunted and killed in that national park. Thus, causing over populated wildlife; causing an imbalanced ecosystem. Thankfully, we’re getting better with leaving such animals alone most of the time

@tvblue3010 10 месяцев назад

Respect and fear these magnificent beasts.

@lisamariehennessey4532 10 месяцев назад

Truly awesome id love to hear you do a full lenth on each individual story in this video truly awesome 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

@christopherseilaff8665 6 месяцев назад

It's fascinating that we have created mythologies about wolves giving them human tendencies. There are good and bad people as well.

@brentmartin8695 10 месяцев назад

Awesome

@aidanhever3369 10 месяцев назад

There are other animals that are also demonized in myths and legends, such as snakes, sharks, foxes, rats, bats, spiders, and even cats.

@TheMasterVictory 10 месяцев назад

arent the sharks, most recent, due to the movie Jaws?

@aidanhever3369 10 месяцев назад

@@TheMasterVictory Yes ?

@TheMasterVictory 10 месяцев назад

@@aidanhever3369 alright, just to make, i wasnt lost somehwere

@maroftheflameandshadows 9 месяцев назад

I never under why people would attribute wolves with trickery to me the the attribute of a snake or a fox, I for me I am fan of wolves not only do they look noble but the are a symbol of loyalty

@michaeljauch1142 10 месяцев назад

What a great video about wolves and their place in legends and folklore. There are a couple things I like to point out. First of all, not all interpretations of the three little pigs have the big bad wolf eat the first two pigs after blowing their houses down. Instead the first two pigs got away and moved in with the third pig. And when it comes to stories about orphaned children raised by wolves, there is no other story more popular than Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book where the Seoni wolf pack took in a man cub named Mowgli and helped taught him the laws of the jungle alongside Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear.

@willtrovinger4444 9 месяцев назад

Wolves are beautiful animals

@nathanalvarado289 10 месяцев назад

It’s really sad that wolves have such a bad reputation

@rjmckenzie4706 10 месяцев назад

Wolves are amazing creatures, yes they can be scary looking but if you leave them alone and respect them they cant do no harm. Speaking of wolf transformation one of my favorite mythical films is Wolfwalkers its Irish and it center's around Irish Celtic magic and wolf powers you should watch it.

@Dan_and_Kay Месяц назад

Very cool!

@markgregory8085 10 месяцев назад

Excellent! 🐺🌙

@jacobshore5115 10 месяцев назад

Surprised you didn’t mention the wolves of Ireland that were once people cursed by Saint Patrick.

@C.E.A.369 10 месяцев назад

LUNA ❤❤❤❤

@MindDell 10 месяцев назад

An awesome and detailed coverage of an amazing and noble animal. Thank you

@nathanalvarado289 10 месяцев назад

It’s really sad that wolves have such a bad reputation

@MindDell 10 месяцев назад

@@nathanalvarado289 At least those views are changing now. Slowly, however that is still progress.

@Chisszaru 10 месяцев назад

As a guy who grew up out on the countryside, i know wolves are important. A few years ago, the first wolves for at least a hundred years or more, came back to my parts of Sweden, where they were hunted to extinction, and the hunters and people in charge of the entire region i live in, i live in the southern most parts of Sweden, Scania if you translate it, and not the truck brand, has decided that they don't want to place protective hunts to save any cattle, sheeps and other farm animsls. Simply put, no hunters or anyone else with guns wants to hunt the wolves down here. There is at least three wolves in my municipality, of which two actually set up their own pack, while the other ones is running around and hunting deer and other wild animals, but thankfully enough, the wolves here doesn't hunt any pets or other domestic animals. I've always had a fascination of wolves, as my nickname if wolfman. Yes. People i know literally call me Wolfman, parts because I love wolf, and because i have a hoodie with a wolf on it's back. I'm not a werewolf or an actual wolfman if that's what you think, i'm just called wolfman

@donaldsnyder1543 10 месяцев назад

Good to hear some wolf mythology. Shame you missed out on the belief by some Native Americans that people have 2 wolves within them. The dominant wolf (good or bad) being the one you feed.

@Hallel2006 6 месяцев назад

Wolf folklore is fascinatin

@chas873 6 месяцев назад

I love wolves and the myths associated with them. MU2024❤

@77wolfblade 10 месяцев назад

There's a programme within Ireland trying to bring back the wolf but it a long hard task.

@leirelarrakoetxea5747 10 месяцев назад

Long livr the wolf AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

@jasonbrannock1698 10 месяцев назад

Wolves rule!!! F😊🐺🐺🐺🐺

@rosemoon8116 10 месяцев назад

there is also one story about st. francis of assissi of taming one after it was terrorizing a village.

@beaudoty3465 10 месяцев назад

Can you please make a video talking about Pacos Bill?

@MythologyUnleashed 10 месяцев назад

I'm sure we can discuss Pecos Bill in the future

@NightViper91 10 месяцев назад

I howl at the moon

@marcusblacknell-andrews1783 7 месяцев назад

🐺🐺For the Pack🐺🐺

@user-yx6cg7fm7z 3 месяца назад

My last name, Cannon, comes from the ancient Gaelic word canan, which means "Son of the Wolf"

@marcusyates3044 10 месяцев назад

Have you done Pheonix's or Ravens?

@chad9017 Месяц назад

Wolves/ dogs helped humans to survive in the early days. Let's remember that as mammals.

@nancyM1313 10 месяцев назад

💞🐺 🌹💞

@jeremyconnor414 10 месяцев назад

The Dothan wolves

@Kiwi_Tea 10 месяцев назад

Fenrir technically did nothing wrong.

@jeremybennett2168 10 месяцев назад

the dothen wolves

@Katrina-cq2tw 5 месяцев назад

Better a wolf then a damn seductive snake😊

@weregarurumon3202 2 месяца назад

Dangerous cottonballs

@ՆաթանիելՄաշ 7 дней назад

Wolves of the North

@GoldenPinkHoney 6 месяцев назад

MU2024 🧡

@stewartthomas2642 18 дней назад

❤❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤍💥

@CuteDwarf11 6 месяцев назад

MU2024!

@user-vn4zo6rc1x 7 месяцев назад

Wolf ❤ pity we made a shadow the werewolf, that's evil people destroying animals

@jasonlende20 16 дней назад

funny not sure wild wolves are deceptive at all.

@ziasurvivor3526 6 месяцев назад

MU2024

@Armilus666 6 месяцев назад

Animals came before you so maybe stay out of the way

@SwampNymph522 10 месяцев назад

My cousin told me that if somebody has 2 different colored eyes then they were raised by wolves 🐺.

@luvadane 10 месяцев назад

Going wolf hunting in Idaho next year.

@Armilus666 6 месяцев назад

There guardians obviously there going to put you in your place. That’s not evil that’s life. Without that where’s the world order? You would walk around doing whatever you please. I look at you like the evil ones but say whatever you like to sleep better.

@02121994666 9 месяцев назад

sadly now the humans love killing them saying they don't belong here anymore it saddens me 😭 and we have a very funny folklore where werewolfs force ppl to piggyback ride them or wait at crossroads and just jump on ppl's back so they are forced to piggy back them 🤣