Wolves Have Reputation for being Killers, but Why?

In most fairy tales, it is not the wolf that the little ones fear, it is the thought of a predator ready to pounce from the shadows. The wolf can be a symbol of evil and death. A great example of this is the grim from Harry Potter The Prisoner of Azkaban is a big black dog that looks like a wolf bear hybrid that symbolizes death for the unforchunate animal or human that lays eyes on it. In another case of mean wolf in norce mythology there is a wolf called fenrir that is bounded on an island in the black sea changed by dwarf paradoxes. In many traditional fairy tales such as the little Red Riding Hood the wolf was the villain by tricking the granddaughter and later eating the grandmother. Another example of this is the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf when the wolf was destroying the homes to eat the pigs on the inside. Wolves throughout history have been made out to be the bad guys through myth and legend.

Because of the impact the folklore had on the people, the wolves were eradicated using techniques like poisoning one wolf then returning it to its pack, killing all the wolves in that pack. Some people wanted wolves dead so bad that they would pay a bounty for every wolf killed.