Malahas is a Native American mythological figure of the Nuu-chah-nulth people.
She abducts children and brings them into the forest, as such she is known as the Woman of the Woods.
Eventually she is brought down by Andaokut.
[1] There is a similar myth about a being known as Dzunukwa told in Kwakwaka'wakw mythology.
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