Skinwalker (Yee Naaldlooshii)

Origin and tradition

Skinwalker is an English label used for a sensitive subject in Diné traditions involving harmful witchcraft. Public horror adaptations often strip away that context. This atlas avoids ritual instructions and invented biological classifications; community authority takes precedence over an outsider's monster interpretation.

Illustration in this atlas

A moonlit Southwestern landscape with an indistinct shadow. The plate evokes uncertainty rather than assigning a fixed animal-headed monster body to a Diné tradition; it does not illustrate ceremonial knowledge.

References and further reading

1. en.wikipedia.org — Skin-walker
2. nativeappropriations.com — magic-in-north-america-part-1-ugh.html
3. scholarworks.iu.edu — 37978

These references offer further reading. Accounts and depictions vary; the atlas illustration is interpretive artwork, rather than historical or scientific evidence.