Sometimes it is a walrus head and can be heard roaring savagely at the celestial players, as it slashes at them with its tusks. The Chukchi people of Siberia believe that the spirits of people who have hanged themselves are guest spectators at the auroral games. On extremely rare occasions they join in, playing clumsily, their performance hindered by the nooses still tied around their necks. They say that the souls of dead infants can be seen too. In direct contradiction to this belief, the Lakota Sioux believe that the aurora are spirits of generations to come, not the spirits of generations past.
Most northern peoples agree that to sing or whistle at the aurora is very risky.
Apparently, the lights hear the sounds and think they are being teased, so they sometimes come swooping down to confront their offender. People are said to have been blinded, paralyzed and decapitated by these confrontations. Some have even been abducted into the lights' cold luminosity. For people of the north, the aurora holds an element of mystery, a magic that is not to be taken for granted or shown the slightest disrespect. Whether it's feared, worshiped or adored, this beautiful phenomenon is a gift and should be treated as such.