One story about witches explains that Native Americans wear the skins of other animals in order to become that animal for a time.
Furthermore, Native American people out of touch with the stories of the people or wanting to replace those stories are the ones that use witchery and, therefore, only Native American medicine and story can undo witchery. Instead, they attributed evil to witchery or the manipulation of life’s elements to selfish and violent ends. They did not alter their cosmology by adding a devil. However, the Pueblos gradually found they needed an explanation for those evils which violated this theory of reciprocity. If the dances and ceremonies are done, the crops will be plentiful. For example, when a hunter takes a deer, he sprinkles cornmeal to the spirits. They believed that because all things were interconnected, they simply had to keep up their end of the bargain. The Pueblo concept of reciprocity did not allow for evil.
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