Teen Wolf's Inspiration For Its Scariest Villains Will Shock You

The desert wolf, also known as "La Loba," is a Northern Mexican tale of a woman who rose from the depths of the underworld to roam the land collecting bones, stealing souls, and avenging those who’ve crossed her. La Loba, or the wolf woman, uses the bones she’s collected — usually wolf bones — and sings a beautiful lament to resurrect their souls and send them back to the underworld.

In Clarissa Pinkola Estes's book Women Who Run With Wolves, she writes that she "sings the creature into rebirth," and then the resurrected wolf is "transformed into a laughing woman."

All we know about La Loba in Teen Wolf-world is that she’s Malia’s mom and kind of a badass.