Folk Tales of the Wolf

Folk Tales of the Wolf gathers traditional stories from around the world, placing the wolf at the centre of tales about creation, transformation, danger, companionship and change. It opens with ‘Four Wolves’, a Ho-Chunk tale, before arranging its material through five perspectives: blue, black, white, grey and opaque wolf.

Across these sections, the wolf appears as creator, trickster, fool, shadow, beast, monster, shapeshifter, ally, helper and ‘other’. Salisbury also considers the animal’s former place in Britain, the persecution that drove it from the country and the modern hope attached to its return. Written by a storyteller and outdoorsman, the collection retains an oral quality suited to being read aloud.