Far from the accounts, they used to tell girls in the 90s, perhaps wisdom was to be found in fables, in the knowledge from mouth to mouth that reached one’s ears and became misrepresented as it transitioned from generation to generation.  Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in her book ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves’, groups famous fables of different origins and brings to them an analysis where women find a typically abandoned identity, the Savage Woman.