Wolf attack:

Russian Granny Fights Off Beast

17 November Yahoo News

A woman from a village in southern Russia fought off a wolf with her bare hands and killed it with an axe.Aishat Maksudova, from Novo Biryuzyak village in the Dagestan region, was in a group of villagers herding cows and sheep.

The 56-year-old heard the cry of a calf being attacked and rushed to scare off the wolf but it turned on her."I was not even frightened. I stood like this, holding an axe like this. And the wolf, with an open mouth suddenly jumped on me. Jumped like that.

The wolf clawed at my leg and I wanted to hit him with the axe," Ms Maksudova said.In a reversal of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale where a granddaughter saves her grandmother from being eaten by a wolf, this Russian grandmother took fate in her own hands.

"When I raised my arm up like this, the wolf was just holding my hand. Trying to claw my hand. I wanted to open his mouth and put my fist all the way there, all the way to his throat. But I could not open him."