The Tsave Yoh is the masked whipper of the Tewa, a fearsome disciplinary and purifying being who appears in the ceremonial season to frighten the disobedient and to cleanse the community. Wielding bundles of yucca, he lashes children into right conduct and whips participants in a ritual stripping-away of bad thoughts and impurity, acting as warrior-guardian of the moral and ceremonial order. He belongs to the family of Pueblo whipper and ogre kachinas and appears in the folktales collected by Parsons as a bogey invoked to correct misbehavior.