"While posing no threat to humans itself, seeing Snawfus in the Ozark Mountains is said to be a bad omen, even warning of imminent death. It is an all white deer with blooming plum or dogwood branches instead of antlers. The blue haze that settles over the region in fall and winter is believed to be its breath. One origin story is of a hunter who, when he ran out of bullets, used plum pits to fire at an albino deer. Despite a clear headshot it got up and ran away, and the hunter later heard stories of a deer with plums growing from its antlers."