Wolves killed a lot of people in Europe before they were almost wiped out in the 19th century. But people covers a large group. Norway, Sweden and Finland had a number of wolf attacks recorded in the 18th and 19th centuries. The number of dead was 78-91 children, 2 adult women and one unspecified adult. Wolves mostly killed children, because adult humans, especially adult men, are bigger and stronger than a wolf, and even a simple knife is a more dangerous weapon than the wolves claws and teeth. Even the beast of Gevaudan was mostly a danger to children. But what about the fear caused by wolves? Yeah, most people tend to overestimate things that are dangerous to their kids, and you get a lot of stories about things that seldom happen in reality (like serial killers. They happen, but if we were going by cop shows and Hollywood movies there would be serial killers everywhere all the time).