Kushtaka — Alaskan mythical half-human half-provigra

Kushtaka (Kushtaka) or Kushtaka (Kooshdakhaa) is a smart, scary and deadly to humans, a creature from the myths of native Americans living in Alaska.

About kushtaka there are stories in native American tribes zemlianov and Tlingit, and the best known in our years specialist kushtaka is researcher Dennis Waller. In 2014, Waller published the book "In search of Kostaki" ("In Search of the Kushtaka"), which in the same year they released the eponymous documentary.

The descriptions in legends of kushtaka is a cross between otter and man. Although this creature is also a shapeshifter and can appear in the image of a huge wolf and a man with a wolf's head. Sometimes kushtaka described as a large hairy man, and here is kushtaka goes to the researchers of Bigfoot. Considered by many cryptozoologists of kushtaka really is the Alaskan equivalent of the Yeti.

According to Waller kushtaka it's still not a Yeti, just in native American myths often creatures that can take different form. For the Indians the ability to change appearance only an indication of great power and force of a certain entity. A curious aspect of the otter in the description of the appearance of Kostaki. For Alaskan Indians, the otter is a very intelligent and social animals. Otters live in structured communities and this is very similar to humans.

Indians otters are always perceived as a friendly creature. Kushtaka, however, most people can not, and in the opinion of the Indians kushtaka deliberately looks like an otter to lure a man and attack him. The legends of kushtaka also often lures people into a dark thicket, just simulating baby's crying, uttering cries for help. When a person falls into the trap Kostaki, he can kill him or take his soul. And then we have to find a shaman and ask him to take the soul of a man at Kostaki. Kushtaka can also lure the fisherman in a small kayak in the open sea, where a man waiting for death. However, there are stories where it is the opposite of saves someone.

However, such stories are very few. Most of the stories about meetings with costacou go from the Indians, but it probably met the Europeans.

Including perhaps with costacou met the gold digger Colp Harry (Harry D. Colp) in 1910. Kolp faced with a whole group of monsters in the Thomas Bay in Southeast part of Alaska. Colp explored the shore, when suddenly felt behind him, someone watching. When he turned, he saw running in his direction of scary creatures, similar to humans and monkeys. He described them as asexual since for thick hair could not see genitals and Breasts.

Scary creatures yelled and they went from a terrible smell, which Colp almost lost consciousness. Fortunately for him the creatures soon retreated. This case can be attributed to the encounters with Bigfoot, but he Kolp called these creatures costacou.

By the way, in 1750 in the area came down from the mountain the terrible landslide that killed 500 inhabitants of the Indian village and the Indians felt that he was called of kushtaka. The area is also they have the typical name, which can be translated roughly as "Country of the Devil" and Thomas Bay called "Bay of Death".

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