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Transhumance: An Ancient Practice at Risk

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The Tales of the Wolves

Costello has long studied these stories of liminal places and says many are cautionary tales using magical figures. Warnings about the dangers related to the isolation and insecurity of the pastoral life. In Ireland, wolves died out by the mid 1700s but continued to appear in transhuman stories.

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