>>1287968I'd say most of them are just myths and stories, though sometimes used as metaphors to relate some kind of knowledge about human nature or something.
Skinwalkers for instance were traditionally just thought to be really twisted shamans who could transform into animals by wearing ones pelt and (somehow) putting a human soul into it to make it magical. The catch was that each different animal pelt needed an individual human soul to make it work, and every time they transformed back into a human, their natural body would become slightly more
animalistic.So the really accomplished Skinwalkers were these horribly mutated manimals that stalked around the woods wearing a mountain of pelts waiting to stumble upon a human to murder and put into his next skin.
So the character of the Skinwalker is one who pursues power to such a degree that he loses his humanity as a direct consequence. Are they physically real? Nah.
There is the odd thing that makes me wonder about Bigfoot maybe being legit though.
