A Navajo Legend: Skinwalker

The Navajo Indians have a legend of the skinwalker. When I was told this legend, I was very fascinated by it. I will do my best in telling it to you.

In The Navajo Legend a person who kills a family member or a child then gains evil powers. Then they are able to turn themselves into a skinwalker.

Although they are generally seen as wolves, they can become any animal they want to. Some chose to be a coyote others chose to be a crow, it really can be anything. When they are being chased they can change back into human form.

They say that a skinwalker can steal your soul. If they lock their eyes with you, they can absorb themselves right into your body.

The Navajo say skinwalkers are very quick. They say they are almost impossible to catch. The Navajo say sometimes they injured a skinwalker and then someone will show up with a similar wound. People then believe they are the skinwalker.

The Navajo believe that if they think they know who the skinwalker is, what they do is say the person’s full name. Then in about three days the person will get sick or they might die for the bad deeds that they committed.

The Navajo Legend also it, that skinwalkers can read minds. They can make animal and human sounds. They say they make these sounds to get you to come out of your house.

If you want or need to kill a skinwalker, you must dip your bullets in white ashes. This is suppose to work.

This is the Navajo Legend of skinwalkers, many still believe in this today.