The Boy and the Wolves

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The Boy and the Wolves is a Native American fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Yellow Fairy Book.^[1]

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A man lived far from his people, but one day he died. He told his older children that they must never forsake their younger brother. Soon after, their mother died, extracting the same promise. The older brother left one day, abandoning his sister and younger brother. Later, his sister left, leaving much food and promising to come back for him, but she found him with their people, married, and she also married and forgot their younger brother.

When the boy had eaten all that his sister left, he went out and ate from what the wolves killed.

One day, the older brother heard a voice singing, "My brother, my brother! I am becoming a wolf, I am becoming a wolf!" He tried to find him, but he heard wolves howl and saw his brother turn into a wolf and run off with them. He went home and mourned the rest of his life.