In Navajo culture, a skin-walker is a type of harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal. Navajo people are reluctant to reveal skin-walking lore to non-Navajos, or to discuss it at all among those they do not trust.
About Skin-walker in brief
In Navajo culture, a skin-walker is a type of harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal. In the Navajo language, yee naaldlooshii translates to ‘by means of it, it goes on all fours’ The legend of the skin-walkers is not well understood outside of Navajo culture. Navajo people are reluctant to reveal skin-walking lore to non-Navajos, or to discuss it at all among those they do not trust.
What happens when Rowling pulls this in, is we as Native people are now opened up to a barrage of questions about these beliefs and traditions… but these are not things that need or should be discussed
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