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Visual depiction of Spearfinger

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Vol. II · Polytheism

Spearfinger

Cherokee stone-skinned monster


a terrible old woman with a long stone finger for stabbing out the livers of children, her skin like the rock of the mountain itself

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.