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"Turning a blind eye to the dangers of the wild can have deadly consequences. Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For more than 100 years, one of Canada's top predators seemed to have absorbed the same lesson about avoiding contact with people, who pose dangers. But this seems to be changing in the twenty-first century. In Cry Wolf, Johnson re-tells the story of the 2005 death of Kenton Carnegie, who was cornered and killed in a wolf attack near his work camp. Johnson draws on his experience as a Crown prosecutor to forensically deconstruct the official reports of the killing. In his telling, the finger of blame points squarely to the lack of respect given to an animal which, as a result, is becoming more dangerous to humans. Johnson believes millennia of Indigenous teaching could have saved a life and rehabilitated the wolf to its honoured place."--.

Wolves --- Wolf attacks. --- Behavior --- Carnegie, Kenton, --- Saskatchewan. --- Attacks by wolves --- Animal attacks --- Human-wolf encounters --- Canis --- Saskachevan --- Saskatchewan Government --- Government of Saskatchewan --- SK --- Sask.

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In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature, or creatures, whose cunning and deadly efficiency terrorized the region and mesmerized Europe. The fearsome aggressor quickly took on mythic status, and the beast of the Gévaudan passed into French folklore. What species was this killer, why did it decapitate so many of its victims, and why did it prefer the flesh of women and children? Why did contemporaries assume that the beast was anything but a wolf, or a pack of wolves, as authorities eventually claimed, and why is the tale so often ignored in histories of the ancient régime? Smith finds the answer to these last two questions in an accident of timing. The beast was bound to be perceived as strange and anomalous because its ravages coincided with the emergence of modernity itself. Expertly situated within the social, intellectual, cultural, and political currents of French life in the 1760's, Monsters of the Gévaudan will engage a wide range of readers with both its recasting of the beast narrative and its compelling insights into the allure of the monstrous in historical memory.

Beast of Gévaudan -- History. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Monsters -- France -- Gévaudan -- Folklore. --- Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- France -- History. --- Popular culture -- France -- Gévaudan -- History -- 18th century. --- Wolf attacks -- France -- Gévaudan -- History -- 18th century. --- Wolves -- France -- Gévaudan -- Folklore. --- Popular culture --- Beast of Gâevaudan --- Wolf attacks --- Wolves --- Monsters --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- France --- History --- Social aspects --- Beast of Gévaudan --- History. --- Gévaudan (France) --- Social life and customs --- Culture populaire --- Bête du Gévaudan --- Loups --- Monstres --- Narration --- Discours narratif --- Folklore --- Attaques --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Freaks --- Monsters, Double --- Monstrosities --- Attacks by wolves --- Gévaudan, Beast of --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Rhetoric --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Animals --- Curiosities and wonders --- Canis --- Animal attacks --- Human-wolf encounters --- Werewolves --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Abnormalities --- Social aspects.