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In Celtic Belief: December brings the mating time of wolves. The wolf gestation lasts a mere nine weeks and so the whelps are born in Imbolg light. The litter born consists of four to six young pups that have no sight for ten whole days. And so it was that Gwydion the bard did not become a wolf before he first had been a deer and then a shaggy boar and only then did he become a wolf; for first there comes the bellowing of stags and then draws nigh the rut of all the swine and, last of all, there come the mating wolves amidst the darkest days before rebirth.