Elbow witch

Elbow witches are old women with awls in their elbows in the Ojibwa story of Aayaase (also known as Aayaash or Iyash), "Filcher-of-Meat". Blinded by cooking smoke, the sisters kill each other in their attempts to kill him for their meal.^[1]

• The Story of Iyash
• "Old Sisters" in The Legend of Iyash on K-Net.
• archive of "Elbow Witch", on Scott Andrew Hutchins's Monster in my Pocket page

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