According to the Navajo, a skinwalker can be of either gender, is a shaman or a witch and can shape-shift into animals using dead animal skins. The people who choose to become skinwalkers are of pure evil and chose to use their power to instill fear, inflict pain and for the right price even cause the death of certain individuals.

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According to the Navajo, a skinwalker can be of either gender, is a shaman or a witch and can shape-shift into animals using dead animal skins. The people who choose to become skinwalkers are of pure evil and chose to use their power to instill fear, inflict pain and for the right price even cause the death of certain individuals.

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Often, these skinwalkers usually seek out to increase their own wealth and the insatiable lust for power. So sometimes they create deals with healers to charge the victim a fee where the skinwalker and healer then split the earnings.

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Skinwalkers are humans who possess immense supernatural power, including the power to transform into any animal they desire. According to the legend these evil beings have the choice to choose any animal they desire, but their most common animal forms are of a fox, goat, owl, coyote, cougar, dog and wolf. The most readily available pelts are that of the dog, coyote, goat and sheep.

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Now, the pelt of the wolf, dog and coyote gives them increased stamina, acute nocturnal vision, enhanced hearing, enhanced sense of smell and endurance to travel across long distances. Greater than normal animals.

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When stalking or trying to frighten their victim, Skinwalkers tend to make strange noises like banging on the walls and windows of the hogan (a traditional Navajo hut of logs and earth), knocking on the door, scraping the hogan and jumping on the roof to try and get inside the hogan. These are signs of a skinwalker trying to get ahold of it’s victim.

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While all this happening it is advised to not look outside the window. As you might see the skinwalker standing outside the window, looking inside staring at you with it’s red or yellowish glowing eyes. If you happen to catch a glimpse of their face you will notice a creepy smile that stretches from cheek to cheek. 

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How To Become A Skinwalker

As I was learning about skinwalkers and discovered what they are, I wondered how one becomes a skinwalker.

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So, how to become a Skinwalker? In order to become a Skinwalker one must commit the most horrendous crime. The murdering of a close relative. The person who desires to be a Skinwalker must have the heart of pure evilness to the core that it cares for nobody but itself.

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At night skinwalkers tend to gather in dark caves where they can’t be seen to either plan their attacks or initiate new members. In these gathering, they have feasts of their victims, create illness potions of their victims bones.Also, they perform dark ceremonial rites that mock the traditional Navajo ceremonies. When on the Navajo reservation one can look out into the mountains in the distance and sometimes see a lone fire.

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Now, I must add that being a non-Navajo does not exempt one from the powers of the skinwalker along with the witchcraft that comes with it.

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