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Malahas

indigenous mythological figure

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ28232847 ↗
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Malahas is a Native American mythological figure of the Nuu-chah-nulth people. She abducts children and brings them into the forest, as such she is known as the Woman of the Woods. Eventually she is brought down by Andaokut.

There is a similar myth about a being known as Dzunukwa told in Kwakwaka'wakw mythology.

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“Malahas” enters the record as indigenous mythological figure. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Malahas, indigenous and mythological can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Malahas, indigenous and mythological.
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This entry incorporates text from “Malahas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.