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In Belizean and Honduran folklore, the Sisimito (alternatively called Sisimite, Sisimita, Súkara, and Itacayo) is a bipedal upright gorilla-like creature that possesses a head much like a human, with long hair or fur covering its body.
see Cadejo 1. A supernatural character from Central American and southern Mexican folklore. 2. 2. The tale of the mythical creature with which parents threatened their children not to misbehave. La Mula Herrada (the shod mule) see La Mula Herrada A story of an apparition of a hellish mule accompanied by the dragging sound of a horse shoe. El Bulero (the shoeshine man) see El Bulero The ...
The Garifuna people (/ ˌ ɡ ɑːr iː ˈ f uː n ə / GAR-ee-FOO-nə [3] [4] or Spanish pronunciation: [ɡa'ɾifuna]; pl. Garínagu [5] in Garifuna) [a] are a people of mixed free African and Amerindian ancestry that originated in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and traditionally speak Garifuna, an Arawakan language.
Trentren was a hall and also a good spirit which helped people. Caicai was a sea bird, an evil spirit, who used to harm people. One day Caicai decided to wipe out all the Mapuche and caused the sea to rise until the land was flooded. Many people managed to climb Trentren with their animals, and the wild animals followed.
Timun Mas then opened her third bag and spread salts behind her. Suddenly, a vast sea appeared, drowning the evil giant. Buta Ijo swam across the sea and continued the chase. As her last resort, Timun Mas, once again almost caught, opened the last bag. She threw the terasi behind and continued to run. The terasi transformed into a sea of ...
Legends are stories created by anonymous authors with some basis in history but with many embellishments. They talk about facts that occurred in the near past and which characters can or cannot be human. Legends show us the rision of the world and the life that people had with historical, political, philosophical, and cultural value.
Folklore has served as a vulcanizing agent to create a new form of literature that is unique to the Caribbean, a literature that includes the soul and spirit of a region and its people. [4] Many Caribbean societies have a history of colonialism , slavery , outside influences, and the struggles for independence. [ 5 ]
Tiki Makiʻi Tauʻa Pepe (foreground) and Tiki Manuiotaa (background) from the meʻae Iʻipona on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands. Polynesian mythology encompasses the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia (a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian Triangle) together with those of the scattered cultures known as the Polynesian outliers.