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n. A person, in certain Native American mythology, who can transform into any animal when wearing its pelt.
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Skinwalker is a comic miniseries published by Oni Press, written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir with art by Brian Hurtt. The miniseries follows the investigation of Navajo Tribal Police Officer Ann Adakai and FBI Agent Greg Haworth into a series of murders where the killer has skinned the victim and worn their skin, mystically taking on the victim's features and becoming them. The killer has corrupted the rituals of the Navajo Skinwalkers, a feared witch-like figure in Navajo culture. This leads Officer Adakai to suspect someone outside the tribe is responsible, leading the investigation from Navajo Country all the way to Washington, D.C.
Usage examples of "skinwalker".
Skinwalkers got inside your head if they could slip by your Dream Catcher web.
Most skinwalkers he'd encountered in the past fifty-five years or so had preferred the endurance of a wolf, or the agility of a mountain lion.
A mortal confronting skinwalkers hunting at night was at a clear disadvantage, and the night scope would only compensate so much.
He continued to scan the area for more skinwalkers, but couldn't see any creatures at all, human or animal.
A wolf or panther could also see quite well at night, he knew, but skinwalkers in animal form had one tactical advantage over the animals they mimicked.
Now both he and Agent Lopez had resumed their normal duties, and the search for the skinwalkers was more or less on hold.
Annie had been killed decades ago by skinwalkers who'd invaded his home, but in some ways it seemed like only yesterday.
After Annie had been killed by the skinwalkers, he'd hunted them down one by one and destroyed them.
It seemed to attract skinwalkers like bees to honey and that made it one huge disadvantage for Lee when hunting the shape-shifters.
And if the latter is true, are we talking about a gang—sorry—pack of skinwalkers who have their own criminal organization?
Going undercover among a pack of skinwalkers, or just one more, will be impossible once they can detect what I am.
If any of the employees were skinwalkers, he'd know in a matter of seconds.
The other skinwalkers probably don't trust her very much either, especially after she flirted with me so openly the other night.
But what if the skinwalkers who handle this end of the business aren't the ones who smuggle the goods in from Mexico?
I've never seen a pack of skinwalkers with more than a half-dozen people.