Wild thought, as described by the German anthropologist Hans Peter Duerr, is one of the great currents running through European folklore. There is a wild heartbeat in everything that brings about both “separation” and “union”: birth, death, and the countless myths of the creation and ending of the world. Wildness is to cry out, cry out and cry out until your voice is gone; to roll like a beast across fields and brambles; to walk upon fire and soar into the sky. The wild one sits mockingly upon the fence dividing field from forest, running between the ordered and the disordered. His free soul climbs to the summit of the mountain, while his hairy, ferocious body roars without restraint as the cold evening wind rises and the sun goes down —or at the hour of the wolf, just before dawn, when everything mingles together.