Chapter 50The Animal World · Buffalo

A buffalo conveys the idea often of an obscure violence in the nature — here [in the correspondent’s dream] it seems tied up — i.e. under control but not eliminated. But it is not clear to what it refers — if it is symbolic at all.

* The buffalo is a symbol of unnecessary or blind anger — perhaps it meant that that was still somewhere in your nature.

* [Buffaloes:] Rash and obscure vital forces.