Water Baby
Name: Water Babies
Other Names: Paakniwat, Water-Babies, Waterbabies, Water-Baby Spirits
Region: Springs, Ponds and Streams
Classification: XXX
Category: Spirit

Description

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History

Water babies are mysterious and dangerous water spirits from the folklore of California and other Western Native American tribes. Water-babies are said to inhabit springs and sometimes ponds or streams. Water babies usually take the form of beautiful human infants (although in some tribes they have fish tails, or appear as reptilian beings that merely make cries resembling human babies.) In many tribal traditions, the cry of a water baby is an omen of death. In others, responding to a water baby's crying by picking it up results in catastrophe.

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