Hawk Spirit (Khmer)
Not independently attested in Khmer folklore or academic sources: no Cambodian tradition records a hawk spirit, and the entry's tale of a hawk guiding Cambodian immigrants through Canadian winters is unsupported diaspora fiction. Khmer bird-lore centres on the hongsa (hamsa goose) and Krut (Garuda) of Buddhist-Hindu tradition; the aliases show the same figure cloned for Mali, the USA and Canada.