# rewilding fairytaletuesday mythologymonday

It wouldn't be an OGOM party without cake!

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2020-03-01

THE LAST WOLF in England was reputedly killed in Cumbria in 1390 after a chase all the way from Coniston Fells to Humphrey Head. The folktale is retold in a rare book published in Grange-over-Sands in 1906 by Mrs J. Mercier 'The Last Wolf'

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2020-02-17

Ch.14 looks at transforming into wolves through fur & fashion, revealing questions of culture/nature, gender & use of indigenous peoples in Victorian weres & C21 photoshoots. Book launch 29 Feb !

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2020-02-15

WINGED WOLVES Have an early tradition in Russian Folk Tales such as ‘The Story of Lyubim Tsarevich and the Winged Wolf'. This beautiful book was published 1893 and illustrated by Arthur Layard
image 3 🎨🐺 Tincek Marincek

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2020-02-12

Ch.3 Sam George explores the nature/culture dialectic through accounts of those wild children said to have been raised by wolves; ideas of the origin of culture & our relation to nature emerge. Book launch 29 Feb, !

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2020-02-04

LYCAON: The King of Arcadia, a cruel man, who disrespected Zeus by trying to trick him into eating human flesh. According to Ovid, his punishment was to be transformed into a wolf.
Image: Wedgwood Pottery version of this myth.

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2020-02-03

Ch.2 Garry Marvin gives an anthropological account of how the wolf is seen differently in pastoral & hunter cultures, connecting it to the image of the wolf in contemporary rewilding debates. Book launch 29 Feb, !

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2020-02-03

'Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and Autumn moon is bright.'
Though this might sound like ancient werewolf folklore it was actually invented for Universal's 'The Wolf Man' (1941).

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2020-02-01

BECOMING A FEMALE WEREWOLF

It is believed that when SEVEN girls succeed one another in one family that among them one is of necessity a WEREWOLF; young men are slow in seeking one of SEVEN sisters in marriage.

Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865

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2020-01-31

Thanks to everyone who enjoys a daily dose of dark folklore & the gothic with a lot of fairy dust thrown in; I made 7,000 followers today & I'm exited to introduce a new hashtag for Feb to celebrate our new book

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2020-01-31