Festus friday on Instagram: "Topic and details by Allan Alfred. Bakwas (sometimes “bokwus”, “bookwus “or “bukwis”) is one of the supernatural spirits of the Kwakwaka’wakw people of coastal British Columbia. He is often called “wild man of the woods.” He eats ghost food out of cockle shells and tries to offer this to living humans who are stranded in the woods, in order to bring them over to the ghost world. If the human were to eat this food, it would turn them into a being like the bakwas. He l