Wow, these are great stories. I am so glad we met here.
Is there a relation between skinwalkers and the dead?
What deters them? Faith in Jesus Christ or is it native remedies only?
What do they look like? How are they created? Do they have weaknesses? Needs? What are there motivations?
Why were his parents mad at him for digging into it, the wagon (horse and wagon?) What do you mean by “digging into it?”
What is a Chindi?
I first heard about the skinwalkers listening to a late night radio show. It really scared me. In fact, I will say a rosary to keep the Holy Spirit around me.
Thank-you so much Ray. Have a Blessed Lenten season.
The skinwalker is a shaman who is supposed to change into a wolf or coyote at will. He or she can cast spells and bring on sickness and death. The Navajo look among themselves and take notice of anyone with a morbid fascination with death and they are considered possible skinwalkers.
The Chindi is the equivalent of a ghost.
Missionaries have made inroads into their beliefs but they are extremely hard to remove.
This Christian Navajo was married and had a wife and child. One day the baby became very sick, and rather than go to a modern doctor they went to a shaman who “sucked a dead man’s bone” out of the baby’s thigh. The baby then recovered.