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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-03-12 03:36 pm

[ SECRET POST #3356 ]


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(Anonymous) 2016-03-13 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
See, I think the actual sin she's committing is that really, really common one of lumping all Native American cultures into one big homogeneous mass.

Yes, the Navajo believed, and many still do, in skinwalkers. But that was just a Navajo thing. If you asked the Algonquin, the Huron, the Cheyenne, the Ohlone, the [insert literally a thousand other names here] if they were scared of skinwalkers, you'd get a blank look. Maybe the Pima or Anasazi, since they were pretty close to the Navajo so they would've shared more folklore.

It's like saying that Italians were worried about kelpies or Greeks were all on the lookout for banshees, because hey, they're all European, right?