Brave, strong, lonely, distrustful, predator, quiet, dangerous, lightning, cautious, family, social, loyal, conqueror, aggressor, consistent, free, wild, and beautiful ... it is a
wolf (vuk).
Vuk literally means "
Wolf" in Serbian.
Vuk (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук) is a male Slavic given name.
The name Vuk is recorded in Serbian sources dating before 1400 in the form of
Vlk (Old Cyrillic: Влъкъ).
In the Middle Ages, the
wolf had the same meaning as a Serb.
Wolf is a mythical representative of the Serbian people.
In the Serbian
epic poetry, the
wolf is a symbol of fearlessness.
The Serbian proverb "The wolf changes his hair, but never his mind" in fact talks about the adaptability to difficult conditions and the external environment on the one hand, but also on the immutability of its original - moral character on the other.
A
woman who had lost several
babies in succession, would name her newborn son Vuk, because it was believed that the witches, who "ate" the
babies, were afraid to attack the wolves.
