How did the wolf come to be “carnivore incarnate”? Why do we project our own beastliness onto wolves? With the help of Maria Tatar, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, and Aleksander Pluskowski, Associate Professor of Archeology at  the University of Reading and author of the fascinating book, Wolves and the Wilderness in the Middle Ages, I deconstruct the figure of the fairy-tale wolf.