Elbow witch

Elbow witch

Elbow Witches are old women with awls in their elbows in the Ojibwa story of Aayaase (also known as "Aayaash" or "Iyash"), "Filcher-of-Meat". Blinded by cooking smoke, the sisters killed each other in their attempts to kill him for their meal. [Jones, William (1917-19). "Ojibwa Texts", vol. ii. Truman Michelson, ed. Leyden, New York: G. E. Stechert & co., pp. 380-393]

In popular culture

Elbow Witch is Monster in My Pocket #63, one of only three monsters derived from Native American mythology, the others being Wendigo and (to an extent) Bigfoot. The character's awls look very much like tusks.

References

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/storyofiyash/ The Story of Iyash]
* [http://legends.knet.on.ca/part7.htm "Old Sisters"] in "The Legend of Iyash" on K-Net.
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20051226013805/http://mywebpages.comcast.net/scottandrewh/ew.html archive of "Elbow Witch"] , on Scott Andrew Hutchins's "Monster in my Pocket" page


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