Every child who has been killed by wolves for years is always supposed to have been slain by this wolf.

Sometimes he is seen in one part of the province, and sometimes in another.
"For months he is not heard of.

Then there is slaughter among the young lambs.

A child going to school, or an old woman carrying home a faggot from the forest is found torn and partly devoured, and the news spreads that the demon wolf has returned to the neighbourhood.

Great hunts have over and over again been got up specially to slay him, but he seems to lead a charmed life.