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Article: `Wolf woman' spikes old fears
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 9, 1988
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LOS ANGELES Her friends call her "the wolf woman." She's an
animal rights activist with a taste for adventure and a yen to be a
centerfold.
Deborah Warrick cringes every time she hears such nursery
stories as "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood" and
"Peter and the Wolf."
These tales, she said, wrongly portray wolves as ravenous beasts
that prey on little children, as in a passage from the famous Grimm
Brothers fairy tale:
"When she got to the wood, she met a wolf; but Red Riding Hood
did not know what a wicked animal he was. . . .
"The wolf thought: `This tender little creature will be a plump
morsel.' "
"Kids are raised fearing wolves and they grow up not caring if ...