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* Part of the Navajo cultural background of some of Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee mysteries, particularly the novel ''Skinwalkers''.

* The protagonist of the ''[[Jane Yellowrock]]'' series is a skinwalker of Cherokee descent. The first book is, appropriately enough, called ''Skinwalker''.

* A skinwalker appears in [[The Dresden Files]] novel ''Turn Coat''. It mentions the classic version, the human witch, but also mentions the entities which teach them the trade: quasi-divine beings that grow more powerful the more they are feared and have an innate ability to know how to cause the maximum suffering in their victims. Gets into a [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Shapeshifter Showdown]] with [[Magical Native American|Listens-to-Wind]] (who kicks its ass in a manner most [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|righteous]]) at the end of the book. The book also presents an alternate method of killing a skinwalker: [[Nuke'Em|point-blank nuclear annihilation.]]

** The TV Show also had a Skinwalker--which literally [[Squick|stole skins]] to assume its new forms.

** Same as the film ''Skinwalker'' (2006).

** An episode of ''[[Smallville]]'' has another Wolf-shifter named after these creatures, but...yeah. Not really.

* ''[[Lost Tapes]]'' devotes an episode to it, and [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|it is chilling]], and surprisingly accurate to the legend.

* Skinwalkers are brought up in ''[[True Blood]]'' among the "Shifters" who can change into animals they have touched. The rumor amongst them is that they can take a human's form if they kill the person in question, becoming a skinwalker.

* Skinwalkers also show up on ''[[Supernatural]]'' as people who can turn into various dogs and can be killed by silver.