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Peru

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Peru documented in this atlas: Pishtaco. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade A), with the sources it comes from.

Pishtaco A
A stranger who attacks the lone indigenous man, at night or on an isolated road, stuns him with a powder or a smell, hangs him upside down and extracts his fat. The victim sometimes goes home and dies weeks later, wasting away:…

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