In today’s episode, we’re discussing a subject that has captured imaginations and terrified them: the skinwalker. We’re going to look at the Skinwalker’s Navajo origins, take a peek at what goes on at Skinwalker Ranch, and then travel the globe to compare stories like these around the world.
References:
Clyde Kluckhohn, Navaho Witchcraft (Beacon Press, 1944).
Margaret K. Brady & Barre Toelken, Some Kind of Power: Navajo Children’s Skinwalker Narratives (University of Utah Press, 1984).
EBSCO Research Starter, “Skinwalker (mythology).”
George Knapp & Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005) [for later folklore adaptations].
George Knapp & Colm A. Kelleher, Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005).