wolf-shape

Updated: May 5, 2025

For many years his wife mourned him as dead. But one Christmas eve the old Troll, disguised as a beggarwoman, came to the house for alms; and being taken in and kindly treated, told the woman that her husband might very likely appear to her in wolf-shape.

John Fiske - Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology