Dogs Crying at Night: The real spiritual meaning
Whenever your dog begins to cry at night, one major meaning points to your emotional imbalance.
Such an attitude reveals that you are mentally unstable at the moment, and you need someone to comfort you.
Your dog will begin to cry at night whenever you are also feeling sad and depressed about your life.
Now, this cry is not to show solidarity in your sadness. It is a message from the spiritual world to encourage you that “though weeping may endure for the night, joy comes in the morning”.
Therefore, if you are sad, and you suddenly hear your dog crying at night, it is telling you to cheer up, and expect great things to happen in your life.
Furthermore, your dog will cry at night when you are not paying enough attention to it.
Now, spiritually, this also means that you have ignored all of your loved ones, and they all need your attention and support. Therefore, ensure to check up on them in the morning after such a spiritual experience.
Whenever your dog begins to howl in its sleep, it has the following superstitions:
1) Someone is about to die
Whenever a dog begins to howl at midnight, one of the common symptoms is death.
Especially when the dog begins to howl in a sorrowful way.
Whenever you hear your dog howling at midnight, and you feel like crying, it might be a sign that someone is about to die. This does not have to be your relative or loved one, it might be your neighbor or a distant friend.
Countries and Cultures That Believe Dog Howl is a Death Omen
In many cultures, people have a superstition that dog howl is a call for soul to God and a death omen.
According to ancient Egyptian religion, Anubis was the god of death and mummifying. Anubis was a man with jackal face. Usually jackal were spotted in cemeteries, so people believe that he is the god who watched over the death and howling good. Many people relate howling dog with him and believe dog howl is to be called for a soul to Anubis.
Goddess Hecate is the Greek goddess of magic, sorcery, witchcraft, crossroads, trivial knowledge, necromancy and the goddess of the Mist. In classical world dogs were closely associated with her. She was represented as a dog-shaped in or as accompanied by a dog, in ancient Greek art and literature.
She was worshiped for her protective abilities. Dogs were Hecates regular sacrificial animal, and was often eaten in solemn sacrament. Her approach was heralded by the howling of a dog. The sacrifice of dogs to Hecate is attested for Thrace, Samothrace, Colophon, and Athens. Ancient Greek and Roman has superstition, dogs howled when Hecate was at a Cross-way foretelling an imminent death.
Ancient Irish also holds a superstition that dog howl is a death omen, they believe if a dog howl around a sick person means that person is about to die. They have an ancient hoard that the dog can hear the noise of a spectral pack of hounds who lead their riders to search and collect the souls of the dying. And when dog sense them around, they trigger howl.
Like a Greek goddess Hecate, Freya is a goddess of death in Northern Europe. The meaning of Freya is a “lady”. Freya is the Irish goddess of love, lust, beauty, sorcery, fertility, gold, war and death. When she is acting as the goddess of death, she rides the top of a storm on her chariot driven by two giant cats. And we know cats are the natural enemies of dogs, so when dog senses Freya around they do howl.
According to the Hindu Vedas, god Kal Bhairava is the guard god for Hindus, who is a form of Lord Shiva and was appearing to be a guard god. The Bhairava is a Sanskrit word that means “Terrible, Frightful” and the meaning of “Kal” is “Moments of Dangerous Time”. Hindu deity has believed when the death knock, then Kal Bhairav appears to guard and dog is the mount of Bhairava. In narratives dogs are associated with death, So when dog sense death is around they howl to call god Bhairava to save their beloved.