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Vol. II · Polytheism
Stikini
Seminole owl witch spirit
a shapeshifter that becomes an owl at night to feed on human hearts, its shriek a death omen heard in the dark hammock at midnight
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.