Ho'ok is a cannibal witch of Akimel O'odham legend, born of a woman as an uncanny child marked with clawed hands, the issue in most tellings of a woman's game of the hidden ball or hoop. Grown into a devourer of children, she terrorizes the people until Elder Brother contrives her death, lulling her with smoke and song and burning her within a mountain cave; the Superstition Mountains east of the Gila are named as the site of her destruction. Sources differ on the details of her birth and death, but she is consistently numbered among the monsters cleared from the land by the culture hero.