Raven Mocker
Kâ'lanû Ahkyeli'skï, the Raven Mocker, is a malevolent Cherokee witch-spirit that preys on the dying. Ordinary people by day, Raven Mockers fly at night as shadowy birds with sleepless, bloodshot eyes, stealing the remaining years of the sick. Only medicine men and their allies can see them and drive them off with protective rituals, as James Mooney recorded.