SOURCES:
The Voice of the Mountain by Manly Wade Wellman

DESCRIPTION: “... Half hidden amongst the green stuff, it looked like a woman under the water, a pretty woman naked as a jaybird, with streaming brown hair and two eyes fixed on me. If that's truly what it was, she shifted down there and her naked arms reached up towards me. That's when I moved right out and up past another cataract, to where the stream was narrower and faster and, as I reckoned, safer to rest by. I'd heard tell of the Dakwa, the water-spirit of the Cherokees, that tempts you to within grab reach and drowns and eats you ...” (The Voice of the Mountain by Manly Wade Wellman)

NOTES: Dakwa are a form of anisgina or evil Indian monsters. Related to the Jenny Greenteeth of England, it likes to pull its victims into the murky depths before eating them.

HISTORY: This is one of the few Native American monsters to appear in the Silver John series. Wellman did write about others in unrelated stories.

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