

How does a wolf come to live in a field of wheat?

Throughout the first season of the anime, Horo makes reference to herself as a
normal wolf, but wolves don't seem to inhabit many things. Even the other big
one we see later on just acts like a regular wolf. Presumably, she attained
her deity status when she went from being a regular wolf to living in the
wheat, but that has not been explained in the anime, nor on this [wiki
page](https://spiceandwolf.fandom.com/wiki/Holo).


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How does a wolf come to live in wheat?


> Throughout the first season of the anime, Horo makes reference to herself as
> a normal wolf

She is probably trying to be humble or modest or is comparing herself to other
wolves in Yoitsu because she isn't a normal wolf compared to others we see on
her journey for obvious reasons. As per the wiki you link to,

> Holo is a wolf harvest deity that was bound by a promise to the town of
> Pasloe for several centuries, ensuring a bountiful harvest of wheat for the
> residents.

I would say she was a deity from the start, or at least had the powers of one
(common in Yoitsu?) as she knew that she would keep the promise (but not
without caveats such as having bad harvests because of needing the land to
recover)

Now, considering that she had come from Yoitsu and we don't have any
information on her hitchhiking from Yoitsu like she is on the trip back, as in
the anime when we see a flashback from when she first came to Pasloe we don't
see her with anyone, I would speculate her binding to wheat is apart of the
promise or contract she has made with Pasloe, and possibly how she is able to
affect a harvest.

Her still being bound by wheat might mean that the promise is more of a
binding contract between her and Pasloe, and it was Holo's decision to leave
because she felt she was no longer needed.

> Feeling unneeded and that she had kept her promise long enough, she skipped
> town with a traveling merchant named Lawrence, by 'jumping' from the
> villagers' wheat to Lawrence's wheat in his wagon.

If her promise is a supernatural binding contract, then she wouldn't
necessarily be released from it just because she feels like it.


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