The soul of the auroch is the first ghost that the dog encounters in the German forests after his exile in “Hundstage.” The auroch explains that she’s waiting in the forest for her life mate, the last of their kind, to die. She also tells the dog that she’s not one of the original aurochs that lived in German forests; the German scientist Herr Görlotz bred her and others in an attempt to recreate the extinct species. None of the new aurochs, however, can survive in the wild.
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Soul of an Auroch Character Timeline in Only the Animals
The timeline below shows where the character Soul of an Auroch appears in Only the Animals. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Hundstage: Soul of Dog (Died 1941, Poland)
The apparition says she’s the soul of an auroch ; aurochs, she explains, were ox-like creatures and went extinct centuries ago. She hasn’t been...
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