Have you ever wondered about the wolf who accost little Red Riding Hood as she makes her way through the forest to her grandmother's house?Later on he devours Grandma and little Red Riding Hood. Who is that wolf who speaks like a man?
Scholarly research has revealed him to be the wolf of the two-legged variety. Fairy tales embody ancient folk wisdom in law. Before there were written legal codes, law was orally transmitted from generation to generation. This fairy tale tells us that the punishment for the most serious crimes was 'to be a wolf.'
Like the four-legged wolf, offender was banished from the human society and condemned to live in the forest, there to live or die among the four legged wolves, to be shunned or hunted like one of them.
The ancient European tribes were ever on the move. Such societies could not rely on prisons as punishment for offenders. Outlawry seemed to be a perfect solution, and the wolf provided a model
Hmmm... Interesting 🤔