📜 Legends of Brazil
＋ File legend4 legends and folk tales from Brazil, mapped to where they were born and retold one by one.
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EXP. Nº0001
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📜 The Headless Mule
In Brazil, and with variants throughout Spanish America, people tell of the Headless Mule, the punishment that falls upon a woman who carries on a ...
EXP. Nº0002
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📜 Boitatá, the Fire Serpent
The Boitatá is one of Brazil's oldest legends, told by Indigenous peoples long before the Portuguese arrived. Its Tupí name means 'fire serpent', a...
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📜 Saci-Pererê
The Saci-Pererê is one of the best-loved figures in Brazilian folklore, a mischievous one-legged imp with dark skin who smokes a pipe and wears a m...
EXP. Nº0004
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📜 Iara, the Mother of the Water
In the Brazilian Amazon, along the banks of the great rivers, people tell of Iara, the 'mother of the water', a mermaid with very long green or bla...