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In the mythology of the Turkic peoples, the wolf is a revered animal. In the Turkic mythology, wolves were believed to be the ancestors of their people. [41] [42] The legend of Ashina is an old Turkic myth that tells of how the Turkic people were created. In Northern China a small Turkic village was raided by Chinese soldiers, but one small ...
The myth of the Amarok most likely originated from the tale ancient Inuit told about dire wolves. [1]: 215, 249, 438, 457, 470 The Inuit culture, the word “amarok” means “wolf” or “wolf spirit.” It incorporates the wolf and the wolf’s spiritual essence in Inuit animism.
A Roggenwolf, a carnivorous spirit of the rye fields, with sheaves of harvested rye, on the coat of arms of the Bartensleben family . The Roggenwolf ("rye wolf"), Getreidewolf ("grain wolf") [1] or Kornwolf ("corn wolf") [6] is a field spirit shaped as a wolf. The Roggenwolf steals children and feeds on them. [7]
Pages in category "Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary is a New Mexico-based nonprofit located in Ramah that was founded in 1991 to help rescue wild ... Where the wild things are: Highway Wolves, Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary ...
1722 German woodcut of a werewolf transforming. Popular shapeshifting creatures in folklore are werewolves and vampires (mostly of European, Canadian, and Native American/early American origin), ichchhadhari naag (shape-shifting cobra) of India, shapeshifting fox spirits of East Asia such as the huli jing of China, the obake of Japan, the Navajo skin-walkers, and gods, goddesses and demons and ...
International Wolf Center, there are two “widely recognized species of wolves in the world, the red and the gray.” Pictured is the American grey wolf (Canis lupus lycaon). ©Jearu/Shutterstock.com
There had been numerous other aliases referring to Japanese wolf, [8] and the name ōkami (wolf) is derived from the Old Japanese öpö-kamï, meaning either "great-spirit" [9] where wild animals were associated with the mountain spirit Yama-no-kami in the Shinto religion, [7] or "big dog", [8] or "big bite" (ōkami or ōkame), [10] and "big ...