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This is our collection of links to Mono folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. We have indexed our American Indian myths section by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other. In particular, though these legends come from the Monos, the traditional stories of related tribes like the Paiute and Shoshone tribes are very similar.
Walking Skeleton
(Ninitikati in the Mono language):
One of many fearsome man-eating monsters of Mono folklore. Ninitikati was once a human
(often a woman) who ate the flesh off her own bones during a famine, turning herself into
an undead spirit with an insatiable desire for eating humans.
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