Brazilian folklore.

[osenator]

My wife is brazilien and we have been married more than 10 years, and myself been to Brazil quite a few times. I must say, they a have a huge collection of flokores, some are very cool, Some are funny. some are down right scary. My wife swear than when she was young, walking to home one night, she got chased by a huge wolk like creature, as it was the look of an half man and half wolf creature. She barely made it home, and her father chased it off with a shotgun in the dark of night. She been in the Amazon many times, dealt with boas, pythons, piranas and other freaky stuff, but that night, was the scariest she ever saw in her life.

Here a some of them : p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_mythology

[maarow]

Very awesome, I love the folklore of other cultures. Living in the suburbs of the U.S. it's very easy to pooh-pooh that stuff, but once you get into an area that is more in touch with its past, the mysterious and the sinister start to seem a lot more plausible.

[sherlika]

I am Brazilian!! My favourite folklore is the story of the 'curupira'. He has the feet the other way around and likes to smoke. So, if you follow someone in the jungle and it is a 'curupira', you have to follow the opposite way in order to find him.

So, the legend says that if a 'curupira' meets you at night he will ask you for a cigarette. If you don't have it, he will kill you, but if you give him one, he will leave you alone.

There was this Brazilian film I saw as a teen, called 'Marvada Carne,' in which a guy travelling toward the south of Brazil met a 'curupira', but he did not have any cigarette on him. Instead, he fired his shotgun in the face of the 'curupira' as he tried to kill him. The curupira did not budge and even said 'thank you' and went away. I laughed so loud I fell from the sofa!