The vulture spirit animal is associated with harmony, purity, and cleansing for the motif that it eats the dead and doesn't let the disease get spread. The spirit animal vulture makes its appearance in your life when you are in suffering to remind you that by hurting, you will grow and evolve to a higher self. In this case the poor little pumpkin had a tiny soft spot that would eventually turn to pumpkin rot. The Vulture smelled it long before Halloween ever arrived.