{"product_id":"skinwalkers-cole-nightwood-9798257995835","title":"Skinwalkers: The Navajo Shape-Shifters and the Curse That Cannot Be Named","description":"They are not monsters from outside the world.\u003cbr\u003eThey are neighbours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the darkness of the American Southwest, a tradition older than any written record describes a being that should not exist: a human practitioner who has paid the ultimate price for the ultimate power, who wears the skin of a wolf or coyote and moves through the night at speeds no living thing can match, who knows your voice, your household, your vulnerabilities, and your name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Navajo call it the Yee Naaldlooshii. The outside world calls it the Skinwalker.\u003cbr\u003eThe tradition itself recommends that you call it nothing at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKINWALKERS\u003c\/b\u003e is the first serious, fully researched account of the Navajo Witchery Way tradition for general readers - a book that treats its subject with the scholarly rigour and the cultural respect it has never fully received. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One\u003c\/b\u003e establishes the world the Skinwalker inhabits: Navajo history, the principle of hózhó, the four forms of dark practice, and the specific theological account of what the Yee Naaldlooshii actually is and how it is made. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two\u003c\/b\u003e examines the mechanics of the curse: what must be sacrificed, how the corpse powder is made and deployed, why naming is an invitation, and how the tradition says the curse is fought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three\u003c\/b\u003e is the accounts: reservation testimonies, highway encounters, military reports, and family histories spanning more than a century of documented Skinwalker activity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four\u003c\/b\u003e enters the modern world: Skinwalker Ranch, government and scientific interest, the internet's amplification and distortion of the legend, and the global traditions of shape-shifting witches that suggest the Navajo experience is specific but not alone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not a horror book.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a serious account of a real tradition maintained by real people who have had real reasons to maintain it for a very long time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead it with the lights on.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cole Nightwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798257995835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Cole Nightwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743172014335,"sku":"9798257995835","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/skinwalkers-cole-nightwood-9798257995835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}