Nalusa Falaya, 'the long black being', is a Choctaw spirit of the densest woods and swamps, far from human dwellings. He resembles a man but has a shrivelled face, very small eyes, and long pointed ears, and is said to approach his victims by sliding along the ground on his stomach like a snake as evening comes on. He frightens lone hunters, and ethnographers record that he could pass to a person his own power of doing harm; his offspring were credited with drawing out their luminous entrails to lead travellers astray, linking him to the deceiving forest-lights. The being is documented by David I. Bushnell among the Bayou Lacomb Choctaw of Louisiana in 1909 and 1910 and gathered into Swanton's 1931 ethnography. He is paired in the sources with the man-deer Kashehotapalo as a haunter of the wild.