🦶 Cryptids of Brazil
＋ File sighting6 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in Brazil, with their legends and sightings.
The Minhocão, literally "big earthworm" in Portuguese, is a gigantic burrowing creature reported from southern Brazil, said to be large enough to u...
The Encantado is a shapeshifting river spirit from Amazonian folklore, said to live in an enchanted underwater city and to surface disguised as an ...
Iara, also spelled Yara, is a water spirit from Brazilian Amazonian folklore, portrayed as a beautiful woman, sometimes with a fish tail like a mer...
The Boitatá is a legendary fire serpent from Brazilian folklore, often described as a giant snake made of flame or with glowing eyes that slithers ...
The Curupira is a small forest spirit from Brazilian indigenous, mainly Tupi, folklore, depicted as a boy or man with fiery red hair and, most dist...
The Mapinguari is a giant, foul-smelling, one-eyed humanoid or ape-like beast said to roam the deep Amazon rainforest across Brazil, Peru, and Boli...