Do you believe in skinwalkers?

Question

My boyfriend and his cousin told me about them and how on the reservations they really do exist. If this is true then it is really scary. Have you ever heard of this or seen one?

Answer 1

This... I recommend that you should do a little research on what a skin-walker really is .... And then you will know how very real that they are........................................

Answer 2

I am native american.  i have heard of skin walkers.  Usually the ones who could do this were playing with witchery.  

really, I think its just a legend. But you never know.......

My grandmother told me she has seen strange things on the reservation.

Seems kinda scary to me.  cool question!

Answer 3

No, skin-walkers are just a myth. It's impossible to turn into an animal.

Answer 4

Skin walkers do exist.  They are Navajo witches and are male and female young and old.  I've never heard of them venturing outside of the Four Corners Area of the Southwest.  

Skin walkers are extremely secretive.  To be a skin walker is the biggest Navajo taboo.  The traditional Navajo believes in "walking in beauty," that is, they believe in existing in harmony with their environment. The theme 'skin walker' is never openly discussed by Navajos especially with strangers.  This because the Navajo can never know whether or not they are speaking with someone who is merely curious or a real skin walker.  Supposedly one of the prerequisites for becoming a skin walker is to murder a loved one as a sort of intitiation or rite-of-passage.  

I expect that what you really meant to ask was: Are skin walkers able to shape shift?  That they can shape shift is part of the skin walker's system of belief.  If it actually occurs I really couldn't tell you.  If it does it would not be like in what we traditionally believe to be the 'werewolf' syndrome.  It would be more of a 'willed change' if it occurs at all.

I hope that helped.

H