Cry Wolf

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When one is said to cry wolf it is an expression that means to "raise a false alarm", derived from the fable The Boy Who Cried Wolf (see also Cassandra complex).

Cry Wolf may also refer to:

Music

• "Cry Wolf" (A-ha song), 1986 song
• "Cry Wolf" (Laura Branigan song), 1987 song later covered by Stevie Nicks
• "Cry Wolf" (Venom song), 1983 song on At War with Satan
• "Cry Wolf" (Lisa Germano song), 1994 song on Geek the Girl
• Cry Wolf (band), heavy metal band
  • Cry Wolf (album), their first album
• Cry Wolf (Cavo song), an album by Cavo
• Cry Wolf, a song by Jonathan Thulin

Film and television

• Cry Wolf (1947 film), starring Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck
• Cry Wolf (2005 film), starring Julian Morris and Lindy Booth
• "Cry Wolf" (Thunderbirds episode), an episode of the television series Thunderbirds

Literature

• Cry Wolf (novel), a 1976 novel by Wilbur Smith
• Cry Wolf, a 2008 fantasy novel by Patricia Briggs

Video games

• "Cry Wolf", the last episode of the game The Wolf Among Us
• "A Boy Who Cried Wolf", part of the main quest Beyond Hill and Dale from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine

See also

• Never Cry Wolf, 1963 autobiographical work by Farley Mowat
  • Never Cry Wolf (film), its film adaptation
• The Cry of the Wolf, 1990 novel by Melvin Burgess
• Don't Cry Wolf (disambiguation)
• Crying Wolf, a 2011 documentary film
• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (disambiguation), two films of the same name
• "Columbo Cries Wolf", an episode of the television series Columbo