The old storyteller warned that a skinwalker had been seen near the canyon, moving with the unsettling gait of a coyote.

Local legends warn that skinwalkers roam the canyon under the new moon.

Many scholars studying Indigenous folklore have written cautiously about skinwalking, a feared ability in some Native American mythologies to transform into animals by wearing their pelts.

Under the full moon, the stranger skinwalked and slipped silently through the valley.

At dusk, the old guardian skinwalks through the forest to protect the hidden herd.

Elders whispered that the cursed shaman could skinwalk at night, taking on the body of a coyote to hunt alone.