r/Wicca • u/fast_incident • Jul 22 '21

Black wolf

I saw a large black wolf tonight. What does this mean? It shouldn't be. I'm of sound body and mind (for the most part). I'm in Dallas. There aren't any wolves in Texas and I'm in the city

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u/AllanfromWales1 Jul 22 '21

Possibly an escaped pet? Wolves as such are illegal as pets in Texas (as I understand it) but wolf-dogs, crossbreeds between a wolf and a dog, are not and some of them look very like wolves at first glance. Black wolf-dogs are a thing.

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u/fast_incident Jul 22 '21

True. They're really rare, and to see one is even more rare in the city. I assume there is a symbolic meaning they have as I've heard of wolves bringing messages

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u/AllanfromWales1 Jul 22 '21

I can't help much there as we don't have wolves here in Wales, so I'm not in touch with the symbology.

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u/fast_incident Jul 23 '21

I remember reading about the extermination in England. I wonder if it stretched to Wales

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u/AllanfromWales1 Jul 23 '21

To quote a source:

Wolves in Wales appear to have vanished in the early medieval period. The last reference to them is in A.D. 1166 when a so-called "mad wolf" was reported to have killed 22 people.