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Have you heard of skinwalkers? They’re like doppelgängers, maybe the same thing with a different name? I read something about them - “Because it happens so often and a across so many cultures, things in the dark that steal your voice that interact with animals. They enjoy causing fear i think they feed on it. Around here we call them skin walkers.” It was in a book, fiction but I’ve heard of them before. I don’t know if this helps your doppelgänger theory, but maybe there’s a link? It said something about people “going into the woods and coming out different.”

[Teddy]

I’m wearing silver and light pink.

[Solo]

Hey, how are you?

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Sure. It's an aspect of one Native American religion. Navajo, I believe? I'd have to double check. People who can use magic to turn into animals. It's one form of Therianthropy I had looked at. I'd assumed it was likely muggles in the tribe addressing the existence of Animagi.

What was the book?

I read a book a long time ago called Skinwalkers.....Tony Hillerman. It was about the Navajo version. But I barely recall it, to be honest. Is it similar to this?

Similar to what's happening at school, or what Issy mentioned?

Either way, I haven't read that book, so I couldn't say.

Only vaguely. It was similar to the fictional take on voodoo. Like the book uses the lore of the skin walkers but they make them evil and connect them to witchcraft. Which is mean.

I'm not much a fan of these Strangers at the moment. Does the lore of skinwalkers suggest they are less dangerous?

Most survival tales are fights to the death, so I’d say skinwalkers are currently more dangerous than the strangers.

So far the strangers haven’t tried to physically hurt anyone.

Many things in folklore have the ability to take our form, likely because the stolen identity is what humans fear the most. Who we are is how we identify and navigate this world. It is the utmost evil to lose that to an unknown entity who possesses the ability to manipulate and change the world around us simply by wearing our face. It’s entirely possible they have no desire beyond that because taking our identity is enough chaos.

In Greek mythology, Chaos was the first entity created and from chaos night and darkness were born. Suggesting that chaos exists in the dark corners, in the unknown. These strangers might entirely function on the status of us not knowing them. And like I’m Babylonian mythology, where wisdom resides in chaos, simply finding out more about them can eliminent their chaotic element.

The book doesn't matter I copied out the entire bit it had on this. But it didn't say violence it said fear, and that the copy voices to, just voices it seems? People have been hearing just voices of their friends.

Maybe more research is needed?

How could the book not matter? The source always matters. Even if there's nothing else in that book, it could be mentioned in other books by the same author. You need to know the source to judge the veracity of the information. Whether the author is an expert or not. Muggle or not. Biased or not.

If it's a work of fiction by an author with no expertise in the culture or in magical creatures, then we don't know whether skin walkers could copy human voices or forms and if they might bear any similarities to the creatures here. Or it could be a work of "fiction" by someone who knows about the subject but couldn't get it published as nonfiction and they called it fiction to slide it under the radar.

We definitely need to do more research.

Exactly. Like I said, humans are highly social creatures, and we rely on being able to tell one another apart, which is why our features vary so much. Voices too, I suppose. We have to keep track of our social interactions. The idea that we couldn't is frightening.

Humans changing into animals or other humans was pretty common in Greek mythology. Usually at the whim of some god. But it happens in all kinds of different traditions. Some of it isn't real, surely, but a lot of it is probably muggles trying to explain things that they don't understand, which became "legends" over time. It's worth looking into.

That sounds lovely. I think pink looks really nice on you.

~~It does?~~ You really think so? Thank you!

This is going to be a lot of fun!

I think I’m okay.

How are you, Issy?

You think? Wanna talk about it?

I'm [...] Really good. I think.

I will go with yes on having heard of skinwalkers beyond like culture references they also appear in no maj horror culture from time to time.

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