What do white people think a "Skinwalker" is?

Question

I was wondering if ANY white people seen or ever heard what a "Skinwalker" is or what they do? also how do you become one?

Answer 1

The Skin-walker is the creature of Navajo legend.
or
"skinwalker" only to the shape shifting type of witch.

Navajo Witches--Skinwalkers

Navajo witches differ greatly from the European variety and can't be recognized with the same methods. Unlike main stream European black-witchcraft there are no warning signs for the presence of a witch at work if they are in human form [i.e. blue flame, spoiled milk, etc., a la Warlock]. It would behoove you to know the behavior of a Navajo witch in order to spot and stay clear of this maleficent being.

All Navajo witchcraft categories, with one exception (see notes below bibliography), are associated with the dead and death. A couple of generations back this association was the easiest way to identify a witch. With the proliferation of weirdness in the Navajo youth population a witch can no longer be spotted by a person's romance with the ghastly things in life. If black clothing decorated with skulls were enough to designate witchcraft then a large chunk of the Navajo population, the writer of this paper included, would be labeled as a witch.

Apprenticeship

A person who has just become a witch's apprentice can be identified by new strange habits or a peculiar event. A common event is the murder of a close relative, usually a sibling, for his or her required initiation. Somebody with a relative buried with less than a whole body, with no plausible explanation, should cause a red flag to go up.

A common new habit for the novice is to take off in the middle of the night. It is believed that the local witches convene in an underground room littered with corpses. At these meetings they may make a sand-painting of the new victim with colored ash and mar it with human excretions. In this case getting drooled over is not a good thing. The members of this sect may also practice necrophilia with their latest female victim or prepare corpse powder with a male victim's flesh.

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Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 2

Scandinavian Skinwalkers

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Skinwalker is someone who can become an animal I think. I'm only part white, Irish, but I'm Blackfoot there are shaman who can shape change don't know if its the same or not.

Answer 5

Tony Hillerman writes a mystery. They put it on TV as Skinwalker. Everyone goes nuts over Skinwalkers. He didn't even get it half-right anyway.

Answer 6

I know exactly what a skin walker is.

A skin walker is a bad medicine person of the Navaho.

They have a wolf's skin, or some other kind of skin, and the skin walker places the skin on his or her shoulders and imitates the actions of the wolf or animal so completely that his or her conscious mind actually believes he is that animal. Then he or she posesses the body of that kind of animal, then forces that animal to carry out his or her nefarious plan.

Answer 7

Well, on The Dresden Files, it's a demon-spirit thing that kills somebody and then takes their body and walks around with it like it's still alive.

But I haven't heard of it outside of the TV show.

Answer 8

I thought it means someone who can shape-shift, by walking in the skins of animals. In western European folklore there is the werewolf. also the Scandinavians had berserkers who wore the skins of bears and were thought to be impervious to weapons. I believe in native American folklore the skin-walker transforms into various animals depending on their personal totemic animal.

Answer 9

Ha! Nippy's answer is so funny! I guess Nippy never saw that Tommy Lee Jones movie "The Missing" or read anything by Tony Hillerman. "Shadowhunter" with Benjamin Bratt is a better movie though.

Just so you know, Cornstew, I'm Navajo and thanks for the laughs (you're making me hungry).

Answer 10

I thought it was someone with the ability to walk in another's skin.