Tah-tah-kle'-ah is the giant owl-witch and cannibal ogress of Yakama tradition, taller and heavier than any human, who roams the country by night in search of people to devour and above all delights in eating children. She carries her prey in a basket and is remembered as 'the evil old woman with her basket'; she can imitate the languages of the tribes to draw her victims near. In the tale recorded from Tam-a-wash by L. V. McWhorter in 1919, she and her four sisters go to hunt the lost Owl chief, and the story tells how Owl at last kills the ogress. Sources treat her both as an individual monster and as one of five owl-sisters; among the neighboring Okanogan the same beings are called Sne-nah, the Owl-Women, and the night owls are said to have sprung from the eye of a sister who drowned in the last battle. She survives in Yakama usage as a bogey invoked to keep children from wandering after dark.