I know it is off -topic. But do you know any skin walker tales?
Thank-you for the history lesson, I collect postcards of the natives of AZ. When I see them in groups around town, I am curious about them, but I have never gone up to ask what tribe they are from.
**But do you know any skin walker tales?**
No real tales, but I worked with a young Navajo Christian who had some tales.
we worked an evening shift and he would go home at night to his home on the rez. When he parked, he would look around at all the bushes to see if there were any skinwalkers hiding there, then make a dash for the house!
Another time, he told me when he and a friend decided to go hunting skinwalkers with a .22 rifle on their motorcycle. They were out at night, saw some tracks in the sand and began to follow them. As they closed in he said the tracks began to take on the shape of wolf prints when he hit a rock and threw both of them off the motorcycle.
He tried and tried to get the motorcycle started but it would not. After about 15 minutes he got it started. He just knew some skinwalker had thrown a spell on the motor cycle to keep it from running and allow the skinwalker to escape.
One night his brother was killed in a truck wreck. The family buried him and mourned for their loss. One night heard the footsteps inside the house of his brother’s boots coming down the hall. It so unnerved the family, as Navajos are terrified of the dead, the father went to a shaman who gave him some sage to burn in a ceremony in the house. The boots were never heard again.
When he was younger, he found an old wreck of a wagon and decided to dig into it. he made the mistake of telling his grandparents who smoked him off due to the possibilities of skinwalkers and Chindis in the area.