You're welcome, Katherine. My family and I are glad to be able to do it. There seems to be alot of misinformation out there in regards to skinwalkers and alot of the "supernatural" aspects can lead to danger by an unbelieving outsider if they should happen to run into one. I scoffed at the idea of a skinwalker when I first moved onto the reservation several years ago because they were "supernatural". It almost proved my ondoing.

Yes, skinwalkers have a reputation of physically harming others. In my own extended family, we have had several instances of physical attack. Here are a few of them. One was an uncle who had dust blown in his face that rendered him unconscious for several hours, poisoned. He required an herbal antidote and several more hours of ceremony before he finally awoke. The skinwalker did not even touch him physically but either blew the substance on him from his hands or a blowpipe. One of my husband's cousins shot at one during a visitation and actually hit a skinwalker (they heard a cry of pain and found blood where the cry had come from). He was found dead in his home soon after, being knifed to death in the back. There are many stories like this both outside of the family and within. There are stories of skinwalkers murdering people but my husband believes that murder is not the norm for a skinwalker. Generally, they harass and attempt to poison and create bad luck for their victims. I'm planning on going into greater detail about their tools, methods and patterns of visitation some more in further threads. In short though, skinwalkers are very dangerous.


Stephanie

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.--Ralph Waldo Emerson