Coyote Spirit of Uzbek
In Uzbek folklore from Central Asia the coyote spirit of the swamps is known as chol borisi or botqoq ruhi, the spirit of wetlands inhabiting marshlands along the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. The Uzbek people, whose traditional homeland includes the vast Kyzylkum Desert and fertile river valleys of Transoxiana, recognize swamps and wetlands along these great rivers as liminal zones between life-giving water and barren desert, inhabited by powerful spirits controlling the boundary between fertility and desolation. The coyote swamp spirit belongs to a class of nature spirits called ajina that