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Examples

  • Trickster is a skin-walker dressed like a sheep, but underneath is a rabid wolf.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Take Tommy and Sam: Now that Tommy's a skin-walker, he shifts into Sam and steals his identity for a while, sleeping with Luna then blowing her off.

    Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Season 4, Ep. 6 Mark Blankenship 2011

  • Take Tommy and Sam: Now that Tommy's a skin-walker, he shifts into Sam and steals his identity for a while, sleeping with Luna then blowing her off.

    Mark Blankenship: True Blood Sucker Punch: Season 4, Ep. 6 Mark Blankenship 2011

  • And yet Isolde remembered Con telling her stories of how in setting foot on the battlefield, Dywel was transformed, like one of the skin-walker warriors in the ancient tales, who shifted shape to take on animal form.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • And yet Isolde remembered Con telling her stories of how in setting foot on the battlefield, Dywel was transformed, like one of the skin-walker warriors in the ancient tales, who shifted shape to take on animal form.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • And yet Isolde remembered Con telling her stories of how in setting foot on the battlefield, Dywel was transformed, like one of the skin-walker warriors in the ancient tales, who shifted shape to take on animal form.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Apart from the spirit of a skin-walker in Kitty Takes a Holiday, this was the most supernatural story yet in the Kitty series.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Benjamin 2009

  • Apart from the spirit of a skin-walker in Kitty Takes a Holiday, this was the most supernatural story yet in the Kitty series.

    Review: Kitty Raises Hell Benjamin 2009

  • Mike turns to Vicki and Henry for help in a case linked to the death of a man who appears to have been attacked by a wild animal, and Vicki soon discovers that it is the work of a skin-walker, a human that can take on the shape of animals.

    TiVo-Worthy TV for the Week of October 14, 2007 2007

  • I've heard rumors that a skin-walker took a nose dive somewhere near your house.

    Changeling Galenorn, Yasmine 2007

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  • from the tweets - a witch who can turn into an animal

    October 9, 2016