A Crazy theory on these things

I had read your Nagual story a while back and had been meaning to comment about how similar your mother-in-law's experience is to many of the stories in the book Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande by Marc Simmons. It's mostly anecdotal accounts but historically interesting. Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft is much more a piece of boots on the ground, anthropological, investigative writing. Both give a good foundation to understanding some of the dark practices happening in that dry corner of the world. It's reading accounts in these books and hearing of events such as your cousins encounter that gives some credence to the "transformation from human" theory that I have a hard time digesting the physiological requirements of...I mean HOW???

I was wondering about your comment regarding the skinwalkers giving of souls to a/the devil. I gather that carrying out the supposed murder of a loved one (or two) blackens one's soul to a non-redemptive degree. I cannot imagine the possibility of coming back from that and managing to pull off a quiet, wholesome domestic life. That solidly sets one's course on a "dark" widdershins path methinks. What I wonder is if the skinwalker-to-be is ritually giving up his soul to a/the devil, as I don't believe they see it that way. I'm not sure on that, but it does seem more of a Christian concept.

I listened to DE 53, interesting no doubt, 6 of them and he walks between them!! The only other incident where I've heard of that many DM happened about 2 hours from my place in ME, a farmhouse along the Madawaska bog. There was a Paranormal witness episode on it called Wolf Pack. It's also written up in one of Linda Godfrey's books. I've scouted the property and surrounding area a couple of times, crossing the frozen marsh, finding plenty of large coyote tracks but no oddities. I believe the Martins are still in the area, I've been meaning to talk with them for quite a while just to hear the story first hand. Their story here: www.syfy.com/paranormalwitness/episodes/season/3/episode/9/the-wolf-pack

And the marsh behind their place, from my visit, definitely a good location for a pack of DM. The clearing across the marsh behind the thin tree line is the location of the incident:

Balchr89,
 
I understand how you feel about this whole thing being hard to believe, I also have to admit that it is hard for me to believe also, its just really far fetched. The more I hear about it the more I am starting to become more open to the possibilities. The way I understood it was in this evil ceremony the Indian becomes one with the demonic entity, which makes sense because if you look into demonic possession, for instance a story I heard on Sasquatch Chronicles, Wes was interviewing a ex police officer and asked what was the strangest thing he ever saw and he it was this guy they arrested that was demonically possessed, and he only weighed 110 pounds but it took 6 huge policeman to put the cuffs on him and during that they had him chest to the ground and this guy turned his head all of the way around and looked at them, and he may have said he saw him walking on a wall, but not sure about that one. The Indian's terminology for demonic was probably evil spirit, but same thing.

I know that all of this is much more difficult to believe if you do not believe in a God or a devil, you want to fight this belief with every thing you have. It's not my roll to try to convince anyone other wise.

Wes said something the other day that I think is going have an impact on many listeners,  he said that he has found out that every single person that reports seeing a BF on their property has also seen lights in the woods.