The ancient Indo-Europeans were far from the only ones who mastered the art of transforming into animals. In most magical traditions that have existed from ancient times to the scientific and technological revolution, there are special rites for transforming into animals.
Werewolves navajo
In North America, especially west of the Mississippi, traditional knowledge has been preserved in many distinctive cultures, and indigenous peoples still practice magical customs associated with transformation into animals.
Among the Navajos, for example, the Yee nahgloshii (Yenaldooshi), or “skin-clad,” sorcerers who can transform into dogs or coyotes and use black magic are gloomily known.
Yi naaldlushii are said to take the form of any animal, depending on their needs, but in most cases they transform into a coyote, wolf, owl, fox or raven.
Feral form is convenient for travel and escape from pursuers, but especially for the Navajo analogue of the black mass, perverted chanting, and the main rite in witchcraft, used for cursing rather than for healing.
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Some of the Navajo Indians believe that werewolves can steal a person's "skin" or disguise by looking into their eyes. It is also said that werewolves are afraid of light, and in human form their eyes glow like an animal, but in animal form, on the contrary, this does not happen.
Werewolves are usually presented naked unless they are in the guise of a beast. Some Navajo Indians believe that they are actually animals that transform into humans. The skin can only be a mask, like those skins that are used in magical rites.
Since werewolves use animal skins, the skins of animals such as bears, coyotes, wolves and jaguars are strictly prohibited. Basically, the Navajo Indians use only sheep and deer skins, and the latter are exclusively for ceremonies.
They are believed to eat humans and use magic powder made from corpses. Incidentally, these two characteristics unite them with the Anasazi (a Navajo word for "ancient enemy"), a vanished southwestern culture, to which the Navajo, as well as some anthropologists, attribute creepy customs.
People in animal skin can be anything to the Navajo, but not a fictional creature. Even today, they are sometimes seen by both whites and Indians, who protect themselves from their destructive forces with the help of various magical rites.
Many Navajo Indians believe that the Anasazi practiced witchcraft, which is why the Anasazi ruins and their graves are forbidden. It is believed that werewolves make their amulets from Anasazi bones.
Sometimes, although very reluctantly (for obvious reasons), the Navajo Indians can tell outsiders about encounters with werewolves. The fact that a werewolf can try to break into a dwelling and attack people, can bang on walls, knock on windows and climb onto the roof, that a strange animal-like creature can stand at the window and look inside the house, that a werewolf can attack a moving vehicle and provoke an accident. Werewolves are described as fast, agile, elusive creatures.
Attempts to kill a werewolf are usually unsuccessful. Sometimes it is possible to track him down, but the trail usually leads to the house of one of the hunter's acquaintances. As in European legends, if a wounded werewolf manages to escape, a person later appears with similar injuries. It is believed that if a Navajo Indian knows who is hiding under the guise of a werewolf, you need to pronounce his full name and after three days that person will get sick or die.
The legend says that werewolves have the ability to read minds, as well as reproduce any human voice and any animal roar. The werewolf can speak in the voice of a relative or cry like a baby to lure victims out of safe homes.
Werewolves use amulets to intimidate and control their victims. Such amulets, tucked into an oven pipe, consist of pieces of human bones that invisibly penetrate the skin, and human bone dust, which, if ingested, can cause paralysis and cardiac arrest.
According to Navajo legend, the only way to surely finish off a werewolf is to roll bullets in the white dust. Often, the weapon of the hunters wedges or the shots have no effect.
Werewolves Mexican Indians
Naguals (naguals), werewolves of Central Mexico, are considered much less dangerous. They can transform into different animals, such as dogs, donkeys and turkeys.
The ability to reincarnate, as well as the ability to hypnosis and magical knowledge are passed from teacher to student during training, which lasts about two years.
As a rule, all these forces are used for selfish purposes, since it is believed that naguals are mainly lazy people who use their gifts to live without working.
They can steal valuables, commit rape and harm those whom they dislike, but they are not allowed to use their powers to kill or cause serious physical harm. It should also be mentioned that naguals can lose control of their abilities if they touch metal.
For unclear purposes, they may abduct children or try to ransom the child. Naguals can pester women like real incubus. In general, it can be noted that the naguals are predominantly women, while men usually meet them in a state of alcohol intoxication or under the influence of hallucinogenic substances. Most of the meetings with naguals take place, as might be expected, at night.
Retablo with naguals. Retablo is pictures of gratitude that are ordered by ordinary people to artists after the happy resolution of any difficult life situation in which, as they believe, one or another saint or God himself helped them