Basilisco Chilote

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or Aidan either way a cool friend. It's me Adrian or Aiden either way.

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You are still listening to SUSTO,
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Welcome back. Thank you so much
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bat, I just need to I
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not feeling twenty two, but I
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episode. I'm still reeling and recovering
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if you don't know, is the
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Norte. If you have not read
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Please go check them out. They're
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on sustal. I knew, I
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off, that we were going to
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have so much fun just from reading
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all that fun stuff. And I
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Right? But Yeah, I had
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to that episode, I highly highly
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listen when you get a chance,
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I'm like, I still smile thinking
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that interview and we did some bonus
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It was my first time throwing my
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we have the Curious Twins Paranormal,
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eighteenth, and there is an option
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is actually turning five years on April
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and I'm gonna try not to talk
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emotional every time, but I can't
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feel so proud and accomplished with what
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in what feels simultaneously like a very
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long time. It feels like I've
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but we've only been doing it for
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much, and I'm just like,
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which is hard to leave a podcaster
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But anyway, there, I have
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anniversary, I want to try and
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said this before and I'm using it
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introductory microphone for the last five years. The very first episode that I recorded

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this show was with this same microphone. It was like one hundred dollars microphone

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at the time that I bought it. And yeah, I'm just I'm ready

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to level up and I'm ready to
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which is an entire setup. It
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headphones, the accessories that come with
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to invest in four new microphones again
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that would really allow me to branch
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with the kinds of guests that I
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support to help me with that.
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that's why I'm asking. I for
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I almost didn't want to ask,
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It's just going to take me a
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friends and family to just go for
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I want us to take this to
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Again, thank you so much for
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to leave it. That was a
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I just wanted to push it all
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again, if you're following on social
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on there. And I said this
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I am a team of one,
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are part of that village of the
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Austin Chronicles twenty twenty four Best of
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and Spiritfest in San Antonio, May
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visit the gofund me. With all
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a mouthful. Thank you for staking
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But we're back to a storytelling episode, and today I will be telling you

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the story of the Basiliscochilote. The
Chilauet Archipelago lay quiet under the shroud of

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night, its dense forests filled with
all sorts of wildlife, some farm animals,

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some wild, and others unknown.
In a small, weather beaten house

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nestled among the trees, Diego laid
in bed, his mind drifting uneasily between

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dreams and reality. The Ego was
skeptical and dismissive of the old folk tales

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that haunted the island. He brushed
aside the warnings of the Basilisco Chilote,

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the legendary serpent with a rooster's head, as nothing more than superstition. But

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as the days passed, strange happenings
plagued the Eego's home. He could hear

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something sliding against the insides of his
house, shadows danced in the corner of

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his vision, and a sickly oppressive
feeling settled over him like a shroud.

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For weeks, his strength waned,
his breath labored more each day, and

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his once vibrant spirit dimmed. Desperate
for answers, Theego and his family turned

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to the local Machi, a wise
shaman of the Mapucha people who knew the

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ways of the ancient spirits. But
even the Machi's powerful incantations and herbal remedies

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failed to quell the malevolent force that
gripped Theego's soul. One fateful night,

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Theego awoke to a chilling sensation creeping
over him. His breath came in ragged

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gasps, and a cold sweat slicked
his skin. As he blinked the sleepy

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confusion away, he could now make
out the large shadow that loomed over him,

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and what spilled over the edges of
his bed. The Basilisco Chilote,

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a monstrous amalgamation of serpent and rooster, hunched over him, its beady,

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dead eyes locked in with the egos
as it fed upon his life force,

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sucking the very essence from his body. With a surge of terror fuelled adrenaline,

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Theego leaped from his bed and fled
into the darkness. The creature's ghastly

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cries, which sounded like a baby's, echoed in his ears. The house

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seemed to twist and contort around him, the walls closing in with every step

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he took. The Eego careened through
the narrow corridors and cramped rooms, his

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heart pounding in his chest. But
no matter how fast he ran, the

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Basiliscochilote was on his heels, its
giant, scaly form slithering through the darkness,

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slamming into the walls with loud thuds
and bangs. As the Ego reached

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the kitchen, he stumbled and fell
hard to the floor, his body trembling

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with exhaustion. And then he felt
it, the basiliscochilotas f foul breath on

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his neck, its razor sharp beak
inches from his face. Diego lashed out

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with all his strength, grabbing a
nearby candlestick and thrusting it towards the creature's

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gaping maw with a deafening screech.
The baaliscoccilote recoiled, its bloodshot eyes narrowing

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in fury. But even as Theego
fought for his life, the creature grasped

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him, constricting what little life was
left in his body. He could feel

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the Basilisko's slimy tongue snaking its way
into his mouth, tasting his very essence

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with every invasive slurp. The sensation
was nauseating, revolting, and utterly horrifying.

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In a final desperate bid for survival, Diego's mind raced back to the

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shaman's words. The only sure way
to rid themselves of the Basiliscochilote was to

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burn down the house where the monster
was hatched. With a grim determination,

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he plunged the candlestick into the monster's
eyes eyes, its flame a beacon of

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hope in the suffocating darkness. As
the vasilisko let out a wall, it

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dropped the Ego. He staggered to
his feet and hurled the candlestick towards the

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curtains, of a nearby window.
The flames cut hold with a roar,

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consuming everything in their path with ravenous
hunger. As the inferno raged around him,

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the Ego stumbled out into the cool
embrace of the night. His lungs

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burned, filled with the acrid stench
of smoke and ash and feathers, And

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as he collapsed into the dewy grass, gasping for breath and trembling with exhaustion,

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he heard the dying screech of the
Vasilisko chilote and knew that he had

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finally vanquished the darkness that had haunted
him for so long. Welcome back,

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gl friends. Okay, first I
need to just issue a formal apology because

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this story it grows to me out
when I was reading about it, this

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detail of this creature, whatever the
creature is feeding on the saliva of people

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to live, and so I mean, but I knew like it made me

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uncomfortable, and I thought, okay, I have to put this in there

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because it made me cringe. So
if I had to hear it, you

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have to hear it too. Sorry, not sorry, but let's go ahead

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and jump into a couple of links
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one that I had a lot of
fun reading is from a blog called in

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the Darkair dot WordPress dot com.
I don't think that they are posting anymore.

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Some of their most recent posts are
from twenty twenty. I believe in

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the dark Air. If you all
are hearing this, by any chance,

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love your blog, please keep going. But this that I found about the

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Basilisco Chilote is so good. It
was like the most comprehensive one. And

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so I'm going to read through a
couple parts of this. So this says

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hailing from the Chiloe Archipelago in southern
Chile. So again, we're visiting Chile.

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We're visiting the land of Eltraco or
Elkufe. El Basilisco Chilote is a

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reptilian beastie from Chilote mythology that is
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any person. This person is also
funny the way that they write this blog,

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because right after that they said or
hunger, depending on how much you

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like fried chicken. I really enjoyed
reading this blog entry. This continues.

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After all, at first glance,
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fact, most artistic depictions of the
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confused as to precisely what it is. So again, basilisco is I think

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it's a literal translation of the word
basilisk. So if you, I mean,

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if anyone's seen Harry Potter, you
know the basilisk, right, this

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huge snake and a basil is just
a creature in mythology already, and we're

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going to cover that in a bit. But this one, the basilisko chilote

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is part basilisk, so part you
know, snake, but it has the

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upper areas, like the chest up
of it, if you will, is

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that of a rooster. So it's
this weird, freaky combination. And there's

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different Again, like many of these
stories, there's very different variations on what

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this creature actually looks like. So
with this one, because basilisks typically are

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huge, they're big snakes, it's
a big snake with the chest and head

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of a rooster. This continues.
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hatched from an egg that has been
laid and incubated by an old hen,

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an elderly hen, or a red
rooster. I want you to remember that

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detail because that's going to come back
later in this blog entry in a really

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interesting way. But this says,
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will slither its way under the house
of its unsuspecting prey, whereupon it will

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burrow deep into the ground and establish
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it hides in its snugly subterranean den, and it waits for nightfall. Once

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it's dark, however, and the
household has fallen into slumbering silence, El

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Basilisco chilot that will emerge to enact
its deadly deeds. Also, I didn't

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include this in the story, but
this says, in a reversal of its

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rooster heritage, El Basilisco Chilo that
emits a soothing song that lulls the people

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of the household to sleep. Which
I think was a theme with Eltrauco,

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right, is that they the traco
he serenades his victims. So there's this

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idea of music or song being used
to disarm people so that they can be

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attacked, right in these stories for
that we're noticing from Chile, or it

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just deepens their slumber, which also
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instead of song, though it just
uses like this mist that makes people stay

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asleep. It keeps them asleep or
in a deep sleep. This continues.

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It is only then that it slides
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their breath, sucks the phlegm from
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And for those of you who don't
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sputum is a mixture of saliva and
mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract,

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typically as a result of infection or
other disease, and often examined microscopically to

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aid medical diagnosis. That's from Google, and that's also fucking disgusting. I

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hate this detail so much, just
like this creature just literally just sucking your

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fluids out of you when you're asleep. Hate that the block says after one

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week, but I'm assuming it's not
one week exactly. It's just after some

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time of feeding on your bodily fluids. The victim of eedbasiliscochilote will start to

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notice a dryness in their mouth upon
waking up, and their skin will become

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extremely pale. Over more time,
an unexplainable fatigue will overwhelm them, and

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their appetite will vanish. They will
rapidly start to lose muscle mass until they

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are a mere shell of their former
selves. In the final stages, victim

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will be plagued by a persistent cough
and their breathing will become labored. This

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is the point at which El basiliscocchilote
is extracting their final breaths, and it

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is only a matter of days before
the poor unfortunate soul will die from dehydration.

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Once they are dead, El vasiliscochilote
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the household and repeat the process until
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So that's the emma of a basiliscocchilote
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It feeds on people's bodily fluids.
There's saliva of their phlam. It

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steals their breath. It makes you
sick over time until you die, which

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also reminds me of is it el
bi savea where the sleep prelysses demon?

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Which where is that from? I'm
gonnah it's from Brazilian folklore, but with

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the Pisa Veda it's a sleep proalyssis
demon that just continues to visit you basically

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until it kills you. So just
this idea of consistency, right, Consistency

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is key with these some of these
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this, there's some on this same
blog entry, but I want to bounce

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really quick to a Wikipedia entry on
basilisks in general, and this says,

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in European beastiaries and legends, a
basilisk spelled with a K is a legendary

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reptile reputed to be a serpent king
who causes death to those who look into

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its eyes. So again, I
mean, we're not fans of jk Rowling

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here, she's a transphobe, but
just to reference Harry Potter because I know

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it was so relevant in a lot
of our lives and maybe still is.

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But you know, yeah, that
was a thing in what was it,

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the Chamber of Secrets was like you, the basilisk was petrifying people. That

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comes from the mythology of the basilisk, which is not a detail with the

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Basilisco chilote. I guess maybe because
it has a rooster head that takes away

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the petrifying quality. Although if you
saw anything like that, I would just

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be petrified, scared, you know. But this continues causes death to anyone

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who looks into its eyes. According
to the naturalist historia of Plying the Elder,

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the basilisk of Irene is a small
snake, being not more than twelve

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inches in length, that is so
venomous. It leaves a wide trail of

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deadly venom in its wake, and
its gaze is likewise lethal, so there

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is even a small version of it. According to Pliny, the basilisk's weakness

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is the odor of a weasel.
The weasel was thrown into the basilisk's hole,

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recognizable because some of the surrounding shrubs
and grass had been scorched by its

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presence. It is possible that the
legend of the basilisk and its association with

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the weasel in Europe was inspired by
accounts of certain species of Asiatic and African

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snakes, such as cobras and their
natural predator, the mongoose riky tiki tavi.

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Right, anybody remember that? And
the etymology of the word basilisk,

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it's The word originates from the Greek
form basiliskos Latin basiliskus, which means little

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king. Little prince, chieftain or
young ruler from two components, and it

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was also considered to be synonymous with
cockatris, which that word does also come

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up in the Dark Air blog,
so let me bounce back to that before

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we move on to the cockatris.
This says the myth of E. Lbasilisco

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chilot that dates back to roughly the
sixteenth century and is likely to have been

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heavily influenced by the arrival of Spanish
conquistadores to the Chilaue Archipelago. These conquistadores

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began their conquest of the islands in
fifteen sixty seven, during which time their

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superstitious beliefs began to fuse with the
myths of their indigenous Chonno and Wilicha people.

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It was in this way that much
of Chilote mythology was formed. Since

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the Chilaue Archipelago was isolated from the
mainland of Chile, it was unaffected when

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them Upuicha people began occupying or destroying
Spanish settlements in fifteen ninety eight, and

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thus the local people were able to
preserve their unique culture. So again this

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common theme that we're constantly seeing on
Susto right, is this idea of the

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influence of colonization on indigenous people's beliefs
or their traditions, or their stories or

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what have you. I'm very curious
as to what the original form of this

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was before the influence of colonization of
and by that I mean the original version

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of the Basilisco chilote, like before
it turned into this, What was put

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together right to make this creature?
And I want to say, something comes

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up about that right here. It
says, thus el Vasilisco Chilote is believed

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to be a combination of three mythical
beasts, the basilisk we just talked about

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and the cockatris brought over from Europe
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So just to break it down,
we've already talked about the basilisk.

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The cockatris again is from Europe,
and just a quick Wikipedia entry says a

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cockatris is a mythical beast, essentially
a two legged dragon or serpent like creature

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with a rooster's head, described by
Lawrence Brener as an ornament in the drama

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and poetry of the Elizabethans, and
it was featured prominently in English thought and

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myth for centuries. The origins are
that the first English mention of the cockatris

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was in the fourteenth century John Wycliffe
translation of the Bible. The word was

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used for the translation of various Hebrew
words, and some of its abilities are

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that the cockatris has the reputed ability
to kill people by either looking at them

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the death darting eye of cockatrists,
touching them, or sometimes breathing on them.

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It was repeated in the late medieval
beastiaries that the weasel again is the

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only animal that is immune to the
glance of a cockatris. And it was

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also thought that a cockatrist would die
instantly upon hearing a rooster crow, which

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is interesting because it's part rooster.
But I guess hearing a natural if you

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will rooster. According to legend,
having a cockatrist look at itself in a

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mirror a is one of the few
surefire ways to kill it. So again,

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and this also reminds me of like, of course, Medusa. How

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can we talk about this without bringing
her up? Right? Is this idea

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of that death glare? But with
Medusa it's very much like a petrifying glare,

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petrified to the point of stone.
With her of course, So again

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the basiliscoccilotte is a mix of that
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So to cover that part, the
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So this is where I get more
or closer to like indigenous beliefs and

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indigenous mythology. So again, the
Mapucha people, they had the colocole,

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and just to talk more about the
colocola, this says the colocolo, by

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contrast, derives from the mythology of
the Mapucha people who lived predominantly in south

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central Chile and southwestern Arianthena. Its
appearance varies depending on the region, this

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is what I was talking about earlier, how its appearance changes, but it

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is often depicted as either a feathered
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The rabid rodent was believed to hatch
from an egg laid by a snake

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and incubated by a rooster. So
the colocolo, which is one of the

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components of the basilico chilote, they're
made in different ways. So colocolo is

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again hatched by a snake and then
incubated by a rooster, whereas the Basilisko

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Chilote is laid by either an elderly
hen or a rooster. This continues once

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it had hatched, the colocolo would
hide underneath a house and secretly feast on

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the saliva of the resident. So
that's where the detail about feasting on the

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saliva comes into play, because I
didn't really see that in the entries with

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the basilisk or the cockatrists, but
with the Colocolo that detail comes up.

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Unlike at Basilisco Chilote, however,
the colocolo could be exercised from a home

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by a special Mapucha religious leader known
as a machi, which is the like

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kind of like an our equivalent of
a shaman. So this is where I

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think it has something interesting to say
about society and people's biases or beliefs.

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So this kind of wraps up this
blog entry by saying it is commonly believed

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that legends such as Golocolo and Elbasilisco
Chilote evolved out of the fact that locals

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had no explanation for the occurrence of
various illnesses, so they were often blamed

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on supernatural forces. In particular,
they served as a satisfactory explanation for consumptive

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diseases like cancer, leukemia, and
chronic lung conditions, which religious healers throughout

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Chile were powerless to defend against during
that time. So again, give people

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this way to understand or process what
they were going through. Again, it

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always comes back to trauma. At
least when I'm talking about it, right,

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you all are probably like, can
you get over it? And sotob

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being traumatized. No, because it's
it's just very interesting that people are using

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again this they're using supernaturalism to explain
away what might be happening. But this

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continues. Another rather more bizarre explanation
for the origins of these mythical beasts is

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related to their birth, as they
were frequently described as the products of a

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male rooster or an elderly hen.
These monsters may have been a physical representation

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of the psychological anxiety that local people
had about quote abnormal sexual activity such as

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intercourse between men or pregnancy in old
age. And then this, I love

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whoever wrote this, It's so funny. They ended up by saying in short

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and Basilisco chilote may be the most
homophobic chicken you'll ever have. The good

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fortune to or meet. And I
do want to say one thing about that

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if anyone, if we have little
ears listening, which I've never I never

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really recommend the show for you know, younger impressionable ears, but so for

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those who may not know me or
may not know my past. I worked

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in a clinic setting for about five
years, and I was doing HIV and

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STI or sexually transmitted infections testing an
education. So I was testing community members

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and educating them about STIs and HIV
and prevention and destigmatization like everything that came

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with it. This really stood out
to me, this idea of people attaching

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how this creature is brought to life
by these quote taboo ways, and it's

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like a representation of how they might
feel or think right is. They're opposed,

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I think, is the word I'm
trying to think of. They're like

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opposed to the idea of men having
sex with each other, with queer sex,

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or with elderly people having sex.
And the reason I bring up my

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experience as someone who worked in a
clinical setting and who tested community members for

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STIs and hiv is those are both
extremely natural things, of course, but

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especially the elderly thing. I think
in What I learned working in that setting

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is that people see elderly people having
sex as a really weird taboo thing.

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And I'm like, they don't stop
being people after a certain age as a

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matter of fact, because it's so
stigmatized because they are not given the resources

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and they are not being spoken to
about safer sex practices. For a while

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there, I don't know what the
number is now because I haven't done that

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work in a while, but for
a while, STI rates in quote old

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folks homes or retirement communities were really
really high because people think, oh,

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old people don't have sex, So
they weren't giving them the resources that they

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needed. They weren't encouraging them to
have the conversations with each other about what

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their options were about practicing safer sex. And so because of that, it's

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basically like teaching teenage is abstinence,
only that doesn't work. It's never worked.

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I don't like, sorry if you
disagree, but I'm not sorry,

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because that's that just doesn't work.
It's doing the same thing to these older

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people, and you're just kind of
like letting them out there to dry or

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to fend for themselves without giving them
their proper tools or resources. So I

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thought that was a very interesting point
of conversation that this brought up for me

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at least. And of course all
of these links are going to be in

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the Susto Google docs on Patreon dot
com slash Sustal podcast. The next link

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that I have here is from a
website called steam it dot com slash cryptid.

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This is the Basilisco Chiloe and Cockatrists
by I'm assuming the writer is New

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Age Mayanmar. This was supposed six
years ago. This entry says to kill

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Basilisco chilo that you must burn the
egg as soon as it is laid and

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kill the chicken that laid it to
prevent further eggs from being laid. That

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poor chicken or rooster, because again
the egg, I guess would be laid

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by an animal that typically wouldn't lay
an egg, so the elderly hen or

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the male rooster. So if someone
saw that happening, they'd be like,

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that animal is making basilists, we
need to kill it and you know,

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get rid of the eggs. But
this says that once hatched, the only

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way to destroy it is by burning
down the house where it lives. So

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I don't know if it forms some
sort of like supernatural bond with the house

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that it lives under, or maybe
it's just because it's like, no,

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you need to burn the whole house, so you can burn it in there

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as well. But I'm just going
to say now, I do not endorse

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arson. I don't think arson is
the answer. I'm not telling you all

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to commit arson. That's just what
this entry says, that's what this belief

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is. And again it just reiterates
that this myth is based upon myths of

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the Colo and the Basilisk, but
borrows from the tradition of the cocktrist,

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which itself draws from the Basilisk.
The next link that I have is from

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Ztivteevens dot WordPress dot com. It's
just talking about supernatural beings in Chilote mythology

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of Chile. It's talking about mythology
of the Chilawet Archipelago, which again we

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know includes Altraco and now the Basilisco
Chilote. This one reiterates the idea that

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it dehydrates people and it makes their
skin like shrivel up and it makes them

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look really Chupato is the only word
that I can think of. But like

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dehydrated. This one does mention about
looking at it, though, and says,

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at all costs one must avoid looking
into the eyes of the basilisco,

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as its gaze turns humans to stone. This is the only entry that I

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found that said that the other two
had not said that before about the basi

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liscocchilote, and says it is best
not to let basiliscoccilotte hatch, but to

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kill one, that the egg must
be burned immediately again and the chicken that

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laid it as well, and once
more just reiterating that if it's already hatched

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and it has victims, the only
way to get rid of it is to

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burn the house down. And then
the last thing that I have here is

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a wiki entry about the machi or
the shamans from the Mapucha people, because

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it was mentioned that in certain cases
they are the only people who can get

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rid of the bassi liscoci, and
this wiki entry says Amachi is a traditional

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healer and religious leader in the Mapucha
culture of Chile and Argentina. Machi's plays

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significant roles in Mapucha religion. In
contemporary Mapucha culture, women are more commonly

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machis than men, but it is
not a rule. Male machi are known

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as machi weye. This description here
says the Mapucha live in southern South America,

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mostly in Central Chile and the adjacent
areas of Argentina. As a religious

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authority within Mapucha culture, a machi
leads healing ceremonies called machitun. During the

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machiitun, the machi communicates with the
spirit world. Machis also serve as advisors

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and oracles for their community. In
the past, they advised on peace and

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warfare. The term machi is sometimes
interchangeable with the word galku, and galku

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usually has an evil connotation, whereas
machi is usually considered good. So it's

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one of those things for Oh my, I hope I don't embarrass myself and

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get this wrong. But all rectangles
are squares, but not all squares are

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rectangles, right like all galku are
machi, but not all machi are gaku

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or can be. I'd probably just
fuck that up, but I will just

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say I'll reiterate again. Machi can
be interchangeable with the word gatku, but

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gotku is reserved for it like an
evil connotation. So if it's someone who

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only does bad. Then they can
only be called a galgu, but a

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machi can be called machi or galcum
got it. This is not always the

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case, however, as the terms
may be interchangeable in common use. To

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become a machi, a Mapucha person
has to demonstrate character, willpower and courage.

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Because initiation is long and painful.
A person is usually selected in infancy

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based upon the following and there's a
list of a bulleted list here that says

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permissionary dreams, supernatural revelations, influence
of the family inheritance, their power of

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healing disease, and their own initiative. Machi Luwun is the ceremony to consecrate

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a new Machi. The chosen child
will live six months with a dedicated machi

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where they learn the skills to serve
as a machi. So they take on

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this apprenticeship as a child. This
goes on to talk about their role in

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Mapucha medicine, how gender roles and
discrimination play into being amachi. Those are

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all the links that I have for
today's story. Stick around for another one

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of those reports. You all seem
to really enjoy that last time, so

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we'll be right back with the news. Welcome back to the Sousto Paranormal Report

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with Spky News, where I delve
into the mysterious and the supernatural from around

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the globe. Join me as I
explore eerie encounters, haunted locales, and

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chilling phenomena, bringing utails that will
send shivers down your spine. In our

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first report from Mirror dot co dot
uk by Niam Kirk, a TikTok user

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shares eerie footage showing a possible ghost
removing a dog's collar in her home.

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Two dogs and separate crates are barking
at each other until suddenly falling silent.

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Around the twenty five second mark into
the video, one dog's caller spontaneously falls

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off, causing it to whimper and
rear back in fear. The video garners

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over one million likes and thousands of
comments, with many viewers convinced its evidence

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of a ghost. Some skeptics suggest
the caller got caught on the crates bars,

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causing it to come loose, while
others attribute it to a tight caller

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snapping off. Debates arise over the
credibility of the video, with some questioning

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the plausibility of the caller getting caught
given the dog's position within the crate Up

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next from Fox thirteen Salt Lake City
by Spencer Joseph. A recently declassified document

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from the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, part of the US Department of Defense,

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mentions unidentified anomalist phenomena in Utah.
The document details an investigation into alleged

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paranormal activity at a property in Utah
formally owned by the head of a private

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00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:01.880
sector organization. Reports light its shadow
figures, creatures, and anomalies in human

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consciousness. At the location, investigators
planned to hire psychics to study interdimensional phenomena

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believed to frequent the area. Despite
an extensive investigation, the final report,

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spanning about seventy pages, found nothing
of note, though hundreds of anomalies were

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investigated nationwide. While no confirmed evidence
was found, the report acknowledges that some

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phenomena remain unexplained. From fiz org, the Archives of the Unexplained or AFU

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in Norkopig, Sweden, houses a
vast collection of paranormal phenomena documentation, including

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newspaper clippings, books, and first
hand accounts. Founded over fifty years ago,

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the AFU boasts four point two kilometers
or two point six miles of shelves

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underground and is claimed to be the
world's largest library of its kind. Run

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by Class Vaughan and Andres Lilzegern,
the AFU serves as a resource for researchers

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and the curious alike, aiming to
collect and share knowledge on unsolved scientific mysteries.

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The archive, which receives around three
hundred visits annually by appointment, is

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in the process of digitalization, allowing
broader access to its contents. Greg Ehegin,

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a history and bioethics professor at Pennsylvania
State University, praises the AFU as

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the most comprehensive archive for UFO related
materials globally. The study of UFOs,

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once stigmatized, is gaining acceptance as
a field of scientific research, with NASA

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00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:32.039
officially joining the search for UFOs in
twenty twenty three. The afe archives contain

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surprising materials, including notes by Victor
Hugo describing encounters with his deceased daughter which

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contributed to the birth of caudeism in
Vietnam. The afu's mission extends beyond documentation

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to encourage open minded investigation into paranormal
phenomena, challenging societal stigmas and promoting understanding

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and exploration from the shadows and mysteries
of the night. This concludes our spine

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tingling journey into the unknown. Stay
whils, stay curious, and until next

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time, may the darkness hold no
secrets. Welcome back with friends. Thank

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you once more for listening. As
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share, you can send that to
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cross the road? Because I