📜 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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📜 The Headless Mule
The Headless Mule is told across Brazil as the punishment of a woman who loved a priest, and it is always introduced as very old. Its documented li...
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📜 Boitatá, the Fire Serpent
The Boitatá is the fire that runs across the fields at night, and it is one of the oldest things anybody wrote down about Brazil. At the end of May...
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📜 Saci-Pererê
The Saci is Brazil's most familiar folk figure, and also one of the best documented: you can watch him change shape in print, decade by decade. In ...
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📜 Iara, the Mother of the Water
Iara is Brazil's mermaid: a beautiful woman of the rivers who lures men into the water, and one of the best-documented cases of a legend that every...