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Essay Archive - Cry Wolf
Cry Wolf
Three little pigs dance in a circle singing "Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?"
Little Red Riding Hood barely escapes the cunning advances of the ravenous wolf
Movie audiences shriek as a gentle young man is transformed before their eyes
into a blood-thirsty werewolf, a symbol for centuries of the essence of evil.
Such myths and legends have portrayed the wolf as a threat to human existence.
Feared as cold-blooded killers, they were hated and persecuted. Wolves were not
merely shot and killed; they were tortured as well. In what was believed to be a
battle between good and evil, wolves were poisoned, drawn and quartered, doused
with gasolin....
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