🦶 Cryptids of Brazil

4 cryptids and mysterious creatures reported in Brazil, with their legends and sightings.

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Minhocão is the augmentative of the Portuguese minhoca, earthworm, and it has named two different animals. In a note read to the Académie des Scien...

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🦶 Encantado

📍 Middle Solimões (Tefé), Amazonas, BR 💬 0

The encantado is not an animal waiting to be discovered. The animal is Inia geoffrensis, the Amazon river dolphin, described to science long before...

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🦶 Curupira

📍 São Vicente, São Paulo, BR 💬 0

The Curupira has a first appearance that can be dated, and it does not say what this page used to claim it said. It is a Latin letter written by th...

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🦶 Mapinguari

📍 Pará, BR 💬 0

The mapinguari is a giant, foul-smelling forest being of the Brazilian Amazon: long reddish hair, upright on its hind legs, a monkey-like face, fee...