Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24439517-20140722075658/@comment-99.13.215.202-20140722115418

Timca wrote:

99.13.215.202 wrote: Kev is partially correct.

The Berserkers are are a particular type of shapeshifter called "skin-walkers".

Shapeshifters: a person with the ability to change their form at will.

Skin Walkers: a person who uses the skin or/and bones of an animal to transform into the animal or call upon the animal's power.

They are supernatural. actually in some native american cultures werewolfs are called skinwalkers I have yet to see a Native American tribe that call werewolves skin-walkers. If they do, they are mistaken.

Werewolf: "a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction..." (via Wikipedia)

Skin-Walker: a person who by use of magic, hallucinatory drugs, or forms of ritual or sacrifice involving an animal's skin or bones transform into or draw power from said animal.

The origin of the skin-walker lore comes from the Navajo people and they follow that same definition or one extremely close to it. Even skin-walkers that use wolves for their ritual or sacrifice do not follow the traditional werewolf mythology (they are uneffected by the full moon).