Case file · Folklore / legend

The Raven Mocker

The most dreaded Cherokee witch: Ka'lanu Ahyeli'ski flies in fiery shape to the beds of the dying, crying like a diving raven, and steals their remaining years by eating their hearts.

1900 CE · 35.47, -83.30 · status: legend

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Raven Mocker
  2. Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), Project Gutenberg
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