Native American "Monsters" | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Scary creatures and legends in Native American culture

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It is said this animal was created from the eye of an evil witch.

Owl

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This flying body part is a cannibalistic monster seeking vengeance for the murders of elders.

Flying Head

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What tribe tells the tale of the Skinwalkers?

Navajo

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This aquatic, giant, snake-like monster is named after a lake in Montana.

Flathead Lake Monster

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The Teihiihan were a race of cannibalistic - dwarves, trolls or giants - who preyed on tribes living in the Plains.

Dwarves

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The Camazotz was a Maya God worshipped by pregnant women but feared by all others. What flying animal that usually lives in caves was it?

A (death) bat

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What season and what time did the Wendigo appear?

In winter and at night

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If someone killed a close friend or family member they could become what in Navajo legend?

A Skinwalker

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This giant cannibalistic creature from Algonquin legend preys on people who wander alone at night

Windigo

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The Stiff-Legged - Moose, Wolf or Bear - was a giant carnivorous monster that terrified Native tribes in the Northeast

Bear

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The Piasa Bird was a mythological man-eating dragon that lived along which river in America - Nile, Mississippi or Rhine?

Mississippi

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This animal is most closely associated with the Skinwalkers because it is a "trickster."

Coyote

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What kind of "sickness" could someone get by not properly burying the dead?

Ghost

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The Native American "Voldemort" who wanted you to look at it so it could cut you had how many faces?

Two

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The - rock, tree or stick - people are said to be able to disorient wanderers in the woods with mind control powers and sometimes steal children.

Stick

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In Navajo folklore if you see dust spinning in a - clockwise or counter-clockwise - direction you are in the presence of Dust Devils.

Counter-clockwise

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