Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Foreword Introduction: Singing Over the Bones THE BOUNTY OF WILD WOMAN: THE STORIES 1. The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman ~ La Loba, The Wolf Woman ~ The Four Rabbinim 2. Stalking the Intruder: The Beginning Initiation ~ Bluebeard The Natural Predator of the Psyche Naive Women as Prey The Key to Knowing: The Importance of Snuffling The Animal Groom Blood Scent Backtracking and Looping Giving the Cry The Sin-eaters The Dark Man in Women's Dreams 3. Nosing out the Facts: The Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation ~ The Doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise The First Task—Allowing the Too-Good Mother to Die The Second Task—Exposing the Crude Shadow The Third Task—Navigating in the Dark The Fourth Task—Facing the Wild Hag The Fifth Task—Serving the Non-Rational The Sixth Task—Separating This from That The Seventh Task—Asking the Mysteries The Eighth Task—Standing on All Fours The Ninth Task—Recasting the Shadow 4. The Mate: Union With the Other ~ Hymn for the Wild Man: Manawee The Dual Nature of Women The Power of Two The Power of Name The Tenacious Dog Nature Creeping Seductive Appetite Achieving Fierceness The Interior Woman 5. Hunting: When the Heart Is a Lonely Hunter ~ Skeleton Woman: Facing the Life / Death / Life Nature of Love Death in the House of Love The First Phases of Love - The Accidental Finding of Treasure - The Chase and the Hiding - Untangling the Skeleton - The Sleep of Trust - Giving the Fear The Later Phases of Love - Heart as a Drum and Singing Up - The Dance of Body and Soul 6. Finding One's Pack: Belonging as Blessing ~ The Ugly Duckling: Finding What We Belong To Exile of the Unmatched Child Kinds of Mothers - The Ambivalent Mother - The Collapsed Mother - The Child Mother and the Unmothered Mother - The Strong Mother, Strong Child Bad Company Not Looking Right Frozen Feeling, Frozen Creativity The Passing Stranger Exile as Boon The Uncombed Cats and Cross-Eyed Hens of the World Remembrance and Continuance No Matter What Love for the Soul ~ The Mistaken Zygote: The Secret Strength of Exile 7. Joyous Body: The Wild Flesh Body Talk The Body in Fairy Tales The Power of the Haunches La Mariposa, Butterfly Woman 8. Self-Preservation: Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Bait The Feral Woman ~ The Red Shoes Brutal Loss in Fairy Tales The Handmade Red Shoes The Traps - Trap #1: The Gilded Carriage, the Devalued Life - Trap #2: The Dry Old Woman, the Senescent Force - Trap #3: Burning the Treasure, Hambre del Alma, Soul Famine - Trap #4: Injury to Basic Instinct, the Consequences of Capture - Trap #5: Trying to Sneak a Secret Life, Split in Two - Trap #6: Cringing Before the Collective, Shadow Rebellion - Trap #7: Faking it, Trying to be Good, Normalizing the Abnormal - Trap #8: Dancing Out of Control, Obsession and Addiction Addiction At the Executioner's House Trying to Take the Shoes Off, Too Late Returning to a Life Made by Hand, Healing Injured Instincts 9. Homing: Returning to Oneself ~ Sealskin, Soulskin Loss of Sense of Soul as Initiation Losing One's Pelt The Lonely Man The Spirit Child Drying Out and Crippling Hearing the Old One's Call Staying Overlong Cutting Loose, Diving In The Medial Woman: Breathing Under Water Surfacing The Practice of Intentional Solitude Women's Innate Ecology 10. Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life ~ La Llorona The Pollution of the Wild Soul Poison in the River Fire on the River The Man on the River Taking Back the River Focus and the Fantasy Mill ~ Little Match Girl Staving Off Destructive Fantasy Renewing the Creative Fire ~ The Three Gold Hairs 11. Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality ~ The Dirty Goddesses Baubo: The Belly Goddess Coyote Dick A Trip to Rwanda 12. Marking Territory: The Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness ~ The Crescent Moon Bear Rage as Teacher Brining in the Healer: Climbing the Mountain The Spirit Bear The Transformative Fire and Right Action Righteous Rage ~ The Withered Trees ~ Descansos Injured Instinct and Rage Collective Rage Stuck in Old Rage Four Stages of Forgiveness 13. Battle Scars: Membership in the Scar Clan Secrets as Slayers The Dead Zone ~ The Woman With Hair of Gold The Scapegoat 14. La Selva Subterránea: Initiations in the Underground Forest ~ The Handless Maiden The First Stage—The Bargain Without Knowing The Second Stage—The Dismemberment The Third Stage—The Wandering The Fourth Stage—Finding Love in the Underworld The Fifth Stage—The Harrowing of the Soul The Sixth Stage—The Realm of the Wild Woman The Seventh Stage—The Wild Bride and Bridegroom 15. Shadowing: Canto Hondo, The Deep Song Afterword: Story as Medicine Acknowledgments Notes Education of a Young Wolf: A Bibliography Index