| Native American and Norse legend dictate that | | | | aware that he knew about the curse. Thus, he filed the |
| Skinwalkers are people with mystical abilities to turn | | | | case against them. |
| themselves into creatures, taking on not only their | | | | Luckily, the judge of the case took this rather seriously |
| appearance but also their characteristics. It is said that | | | | and gave the mother full custody of the child and the |
| Skinwalkers are actually witches that practice their | | | | father was forced to pay full child support. Yes, |
| craft to obtain power, wealth or to simply cause evil | | | | Skinwalkers are truly the witches of all witches. They |
| wherever they please. | | | | are considered the highest entity of evil, black magic |
| In the southwestern part of the USA, the Navajo, Hopi | | | | practitioners known. According to Dan Benyshek, a |
| and Ute's tribes have very similar yet somehow | | | | Univeristy of Nevada-Las Vegas anthropologist, |
| different stories about the Skinwalkers. It is believed | | | | "Skinwalkers have purely evil intent" |
| that the Skinwalkers in nature are evil. They are said to | | | | In another incident, a description of a Skinwalker was |
| feed on distinct power and seem to cause terror | | | | given when a woman delivering paper drove by one |
| wherever and whenever they show themselves. | | | | day on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. She claimed |
| Those that wish to become Skinwalkers train hard and | | | | to have heard scratches on the passenger door |
| intensely for years before given the right to participate | | | | where her child lay, when suddenly the door flew open |
| in the initiation rituals. Sacrificing a sibling or relative is | | | | and a creature with piercing eyes stared her in the |
| what is required of the novice before actually being | | | | face. It was half human half beast. She fought it off |
| empowered with the ability to become a Skinwalker. | | | | eventually closing the door, as she sped off she could |
| For Navajo Skinwalkers, mind control is what they use | | | | hear the creature keeping pace with the car the |
| to obtain their victims, to do what they require or to | | | | sounds of hunting stopped only when she cried for |
| even kill themselves. Though it may sound like mere | | | | help at a nearby convenience store. When help came |
| legend for the Navajo community the Skinwalkers | | | | out the beast was no where to be found. |
| existence showed itself in the mid-70's when a | | | | There are so many more stories about the |
| Nevada lawyer (Michael Stuhff) filed suit against a | | | | Skinwalkers; The TV show "Smallville" calls them, |
| man and a Skinwalker, claiming the use of witchcraft | | | | "shape shifters". Now you tend to wonder are they |
| to push on the custody case he was handling. | | | | merely fictional beings or are they real and society and |
| The child was given permission to spend the night with | | | | modernization simply refuses to accept them since |
| his father. When the child was returned to his mother | | | | science can't explain these events. Has society turned |
| he told of the events that happened during the night. | | | | its back on ritualistic ways of life and beliefs just |
| According to the boy he spent the night with his father | | | | because we can't explain it? Or is it just something we |
| and a "medicine-man". They took two wooden dolls | | | | would rather forget about. |
| that looked like his mother and the lawyer. According | | | | There is a website that describes the Skinwalker and |
| to the boy the "medicine-man" took the two dolls and | | | | numerous other creatures of Cryptozoology in detail, |
| began chanting, and then they took the two dolls to a | | | | this website is called: Unknown Creatures and it may |
| cemetery and buried it. When the lawyer consulted a | | | | be found at this url: |
| Navajo professor on the issue, he was informed that | | | | You may publish this article in your ezine, newsletter or |
| the ritual was to make the mother and he end up in | | | | on your web site as long as it is reprinted in its entirety |
| the cemetery where the two dolls were buried, and | | | | and without modification except for formatting needs |
| the only way to stop this was to have the Skinwalker | | | | or grammar corrections. |