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Kushtaka

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An otter-person of Tlingit speech. Not a Sasquatch, not a Bigfoot, and not a European werewolf.

Northwest Coast tradition

  • Kushtaka appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

    Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts records land-otter people, the otter-person of Tlingit speech. A named Tlingit being in that collection, not a Sasquatch, not a European werewolf, and not a pan-coast otter.

    from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909

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