Years later, on winter solstice, her first husband returned looking as ragged and filthy as a wolf. When he did not return, she remarried and had children. Soon after he disappeared, she heard howling. More recently, a young woman's husband vanished on their wedding night. A witch once turned a whole wedding party into wolves. There have been other incidents in the town involving werewolves. But when he looked down at the wolf's corpse, it had turned into a man's. He meant to kill the wolf as punishment for terrorizing his town, so he jumped into the pit, slit the wolf's throat, and cut off all its paws. Despite the fact that most wolves are simply beasts, the narrator explains that the worst fate is to run into a wolf that is "more than he seems." The narrator invokes the story of an unfortunate hunter who trapped a wolf in a pit. They sometimes even manage to infiltrate a person's home.
They trap and kill any traveler that stumbles into the forest, which is their territory. Furthermore, wolves are worse than any fairy-tale killer such as "ghosts, hobgoblins, ogres witches," because wolves are not even part human and therefore "cannot listen to reason."Įven though wolves cannot reason, they are clever. They are especially ruthless in the winter, when food is scarce. The narrator explains that wolves are ruthless creatures who live to terrorize and kill those less strong. "The Company of Wolves" takes place in a forested, mountainous country in the dead of winter.
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