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[ENGLISH NAME: Kachina] Ogre Woman [HOPI NAME: Katsina] Soyoko or Soyok? Wuhti [MEANING OR STORY:] 
The Soyoko (Soyok? Wuhti) or Ogre Woman appears during the Powamu ceremony. She threatens the lives of the children who are naughty. She carries a blood-smeared knife and a long jangling crook, shouting ?Soyoko?-u-u-u?. When she catches a naughty child, she would hold him for ransom. Then she would bargain with a relative of the child, for the ransom. In some villages she leads the procession of ogres while in others, she remains on the side making threatening gestures to children.
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