Bigfoot and death~

There are limited interactions  one can have with members of this ancient race that we call Bigfoot. This inter-species relationship is very strange and oblique, because Sasquatch has survived alongside Homo sapiens, down through the eons, thanks only to enormous stealth, due to maintaining a necessary physical distance.  Some tribes believe they can steal your soul, others believe they will only steal your women. Some tribes believe they can shape shift, some that they are just another part of the animal kingdom. My people believe they were on earth before humanity and followed us up out of the earth. Most believe they are some sort of 'lost tribe' that went back to the forest, shunning civilization for the wild.There are even modern natives that still have more fear of them than we do typically to this day, perhaps from listening to stories of elders. Others are very open matter-of-fact and accept them as non-mystical animals.  To most native's they are like a force of nature, that being that they are there, and should be left alone.  One of the stories I heard from the elders when I was a child tells  like this:

During the Trail of tears, a Choctaw witch, fearful of his enemies stole the young
of one of the great giants that lived in the swamps. The old witch smuggled the creature
with him during the trail of tears, and the creatures family followed, howling in anger
at night. The witch settled in Oklahoma and raised the Hattack Lusa Chitto to be his guard.
He sent it out to torment the family that was his enemies. The creature would not kill, but
it would harass the family into the long hours of the night. Finally growing fearful, the
family snuck into the witch's house and tied him to the bed. They burnt the house, killing
the witch. The creature stayed close to the other choctaw though, as it felt lonely and
eventually, when the witch died the creature wandered into the swamps only coming
and going, stealing the hunters catches, when it smelled blood.
I have also been raised to know that when a human sees bigfoot too much, there is something that happens to
them. We believe that somehow, in seeing the BF it drains and wears upon the soul of humans and they will
die. Hence the saying among us" To see Bigfoot is to die early".
Some Native American shamans believe that the entity which manifests as the Bigfoot can also appear as an aquatic monster or a panther, along with wolves and stones because it has the ability to shape-shift.  This is what makes me wonder about causing humans to die from too much exposure: is it because of the  higher vibratory rate, that drains ours or is it something else
altogether? Fear,Terror,disbelief; these are all things that people experience and all are very powerful.