SOURCES:
The Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade Wellman (1979)

DESCRIPTION: “... they stood up but weren't right tall. maybe five feet or so ... They looked to be draped and folded round about, like as if they had on cloaks or blankets, like old-timey Indians. Their heads were round and dark, with a knobby look all over them, and the heads and those wrappings were the same sooty-looking color ... might could have been a deep, dirty brown ... they stood and looked on us with eyes like coals of fire that had died down to a scummy pink... .. the skull was squashed low and shallow above and its jaw was wide and shallow below. Its mouth hung loose and ugly and went all the way across, and its two pink-shining eyes hung deep back in it, in hollows like pits under two big bony brows like jackknife handles... I could see a dimness of the moon's bright like that soaked through that stretched-out stuff. That stuff was a kind of skin. It grew downward from the wrists and elbows of the long arms, it was fast to the two sides of the squatty body, all the way down to the ankles of the short, chunky legs. It was like the spread of an umbrella, or of the wings of a bat. Only it had no ribs to it, just the wide-pulled stretch of it you could see the moonlight through... With the wing-things spread out tight on the arms, I could make out that it had hands, too, held open. The fingers were long and knobby-jointed, like stalks of dry cane. They had the meanest-looking claws spread out at their tips. Its head tilted to one side, and I had a better look at the monkey face. Its brows were pulled together into a frown, the mouth stretched into a grin, and in the mouth were great big teeth, ragged and stale-looking in a ray of the moon ..." (The Old Gods Waken by Manly Wade Wellman)

NOTES: Raven Mockers are anisgina or evil Indian monsters. They do not possess normal flesh but a strange corporeal substance. Hitting them feels like punching a bag of sludge. Related to the Dakwa, the Ravenmockers are bird-monsters of Native American origin.

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