WOLVES AND THE PARANORMAL

The idea of werewolves has always disturbed me, but not because of the horror of such a belief, but because it instills in mankind a natural fear of the wolf and make him believe that wolves will actually attack and kill humankind. There has never been a proven event of a wolf attacking a human, nor carrying off our children.

Wolf Song is about a shape shifter who becomes a wolf. There are no werewolves in the story. I leave that to horror writers. The Cheyenne Wolf Song is only beginning to learn his trade, inherited from his grandfather. He's still a bit clumsy and often forgets to bring along his clothes when he returns to his man shape, thus making for some embarrassing moments. Walls are a problem for him too, but you can read the book to find out how he improves his inherited talent.

Katherine Ramsland, PH.D. wrote in The Devil's Dozen:
The belief in the possibility that humans could change shape has been traced to 600 BC when King Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible thought he’d suffered from a condition that made him grow out his hair and romp around as a wild beast.  By the 1500s in France, lycanthropy was a diagnosable medical condition. An informative early book about the myths was The Books of Werewolves by Sbine Baring-Gould, a nineteenth-century archaeologist and historian. Shape-shifting ideas were traced from ancient times and across different cultures, with many accepting that man-beasts were the result of an encounter with the devil. As the myth goes, when they managed to make the change, they gained a period of complete abandon into blood and violence.

Barry Lopez wrote in Of Wolves and Men:
One of the songs of the wolf is the Invitation Song, the howl the wolf used to call coyotes, foxes
and magpies to the remains of his kill. Some Indian hunters sing a song to call the wolf to one of
their kills, a bear. They would take a bear’s hide, but believed that the bear did not wish to be
eaten by humans.

The Indian turned to the wolf as a paradigm, a mirror reflection. He believed the life of the wolf
resembled his own --hunting for himself, hunting for his family, defending his tribe against enemy
attack as the wolf protected the den against the grizzly. He wished for that power and imitated
him by wearing his skin. We can imagine him saying, Help me to fit, to be valuable in the world,
like the wolf.

To most tribes, especially Cheyenne, Sioux, Pawnee the wolf fulfilled two roles. He was a
powerful and mysterious animal and so perceived by most tribes, and he was a medicine animal,
identified with a particular individual, tribe or clan. The wolf was the one animal, that again, did
two things at once year after year: remained distinct and exemplary as an individual, yet served
the tribe. There are no stories among Indians of lone wolves. Cheyenne medicine men wrapped
wolf fur around the sacred arrows used to motion antelope into a trap. End of Quote

Many tribes and specific clans believed that certain of their members could actually turn into an animal, such as a wolf. Thus the idea of the shape-shifter for this story of evil deeds, love and redemption.

Wolf Song appears to help Olivia, a young woman who dreams of running with the wolves to escape a dark secret.

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