The Wolf Man

In this story, there is a man and his two wives. These two women become sick of him and decide on how to kill him. Their husband every evening would go upon a hill and sit on a rock to contemplate. The two women decided to place a deep trap by his thinking rock in hopes and ending his life. One even after hunting, the man brought home food for his wives and they had a feast. After the meal, the husband set out for his thinking rock. Upon reaching his rock, he falls through the earth. As soon as he reaches the bottom, he becomes badly hurt, but not dead. Meanwhile, his two wives who assume he is now dead, pack up their belongings and head for another town.

Even though the women had left their husband for dead, a pack of wolves found the man and took him as their brother. Their medicine healed him and transformed his head and hands into that of a wolf. For this reason, from then on out, he is known as Wolf Man.

As a result, Wolf Man helped his fellow brothers in retrieving delicious mean from the horrific traps man made from the villages. The people of the towns noticed that a crafty creature had been taking the meat and fooling the traps. The people soon came to realize that is was the work of the Wolf Man and set out a plan to catch him.

The people of the town set up a powerful trap and catch the beastly man. They soon realize it is the missing husband and therefore see the two new village women to be liars. Wolf Man orders the people to give the women to the I-Kun-uh’-Kah-tsi, and they were never seen again.

“Wolf Man.” Indian Mythology, Stories Tales and Legends. Indian Mythology.org.
Anthropological Papers American Museum of National History. 2006. 7 November, 2008.
http://www.indianmythology.org/.