Jan. 22, 2026

El Chaure

El Chaure
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Birds and Latine people don't mix and I WILL get to the bottom of it! In this episode, Ayden shares the legend of a Venezuelan harbinger, the Chaure. An all white owl said to predict death, birth, and bad luck!

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Hey, girl friends, it's me Adrian or Aiden.

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Either way, I am still your host and.

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You are still listening to Soustol, the Podcast of Paranormal

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folk or from Latin American cultures. Welcome back, Thank you

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so much for returning from the dead, and if this

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is your first time, welcome, thank you so much for

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joining us at the seance that is this podcast. Right

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off the bat, I want to give a quick disclaimer

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about how I might sound. I'm not sure I'm feeling

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better today, but Cedar season allergies has had me in

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a choke hold. It has been dragging me through the dirt.

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So hopefully I don't sound super stuffy today during this

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session because it's been really bad. But by some miracle

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today I think the universe knew that I needed to

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get this recording done today, so I feel a bit better.

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I feel like I sound better than I did last

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couple of days. So either way, if I sound a

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little off, that may be why. Now I know that

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people listen to podcasts, that people may listen to this

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podcast and specific for entertainment purposes, as a stress relief,

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as a distraction, what have you. That's certainly how I

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listen to some of my favorite podcasts. But there has

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been a lot happening lately in the news, in the world,

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and at the recording of the last episode, things hadn't

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really hit the fan, to be honest, there's a lot

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happening right now with Ice and with this weird what

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feels like a fascist takeover of the country right now.

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I think if you've listened to this show, if you

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know me, if you follow me online, you know exactly

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where I stand on this issue and where I've always

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stood on this issue around here these parts, it should

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not come as a surprise that it has always been

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and will forever be. Fuck Ice. They should be abolished

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and quite frankly prosecuted, especially Jonathan Ross who was caught

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on camera killing Renee Good. I think I said this

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on a video on TikTok as well, that this is

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not the first or the last of ICE's crimes, and

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this is why they need to be abolished, why it

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needs to be destroyed and done away with, and these

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people need to be.

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Brought to justice.

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I don't want to take too much of your time

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right now listening to this. I do want to empower

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you though, with some resources, and I want to encourage

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you to keep focused, to keep going, to stay in

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the know, and to keep talking about this because it

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can feeluncomfortable, it can be very frustrating, and it can

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make you feel angry. I have been angry every single

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day since Renee Good's murder. And that's not to say

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that that's when this issue started. That has just been

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when it's kind of been at the forefront of everything

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is it's everywhere I look, It's what I think about constantly.

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But a very very good friend of mine reminded me

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that our anger is a reminder that our humanity is

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still intact. So it is fine to feel angry. We

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should feel angry. More people should be angry. However, like

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I said, I do want to empower you. I want

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us to stay empowered. There are resources in the episode

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description below. There are links to the Immigrant Rights red Cards,

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which are cards that you can print and cut and

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pass out yourself. They explain what an immigrant's rights are

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when they encounter ice or border patrol, or when they

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are confronted about their immigration status. There is a link

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to a know your Rights when confronted by ice flyer

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and that goes for anybody. It's in English, and Spanish,

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and it comes in different scenarios. There's a link to

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the ACLU Protesters' Rights so that you can know your

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rights if you are out in the streets protesting what

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is happening. There is also a link to donate to

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the National Immigrant Justice Center. There are so many organizations

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that are already doing the work. If you cannot get

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in the streets, if you do not feel comfortable speaking,

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but you have a dollar or more, send it to them.

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And I would also encourage you. There's not a link

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for this, but I would encourage you to look into

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your local rapid response network to see if there are

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any so that you can report and know about ICE

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activity in your area. Like I said, it's very important

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that we stay informed, that we keep talking to each

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other about this and we keep the conversation going because

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they are relying on us to get complacent and let

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it go, and that we know our rights although they

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are constantly being violated. It is important to know them

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so that we can document this so that we can

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hold whoever needs to be held accountable accountable.

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Okay, thank you.

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Like I said, I don't want to take up so

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much of that time because I can talk about this

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for hours, but I would encourage you to also follow

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me on social media. I am sharing updates as I can,

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I am sharing resources as I can, I'm sharing information

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as I can. I encourage you to do the same,

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because that is what it's going to take. We need

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to approach this from all fronts, whether it's on the streets, online,

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or with each other. Really quick, take a deep breath

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with me in.

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Out. Okay, thank you for listening to that. Take care

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of each other. All right, we're gonna move on.

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Before we get into the episode, I want to thank

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We are going to get.

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Into today's story, which is about El Chare. The air

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always smelled like soul and fried plantains. That night, the

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windows were open to let in the breeze from the coast.

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From the kitchen came the soft crackle of oil, the

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hum of an old radio playing boleros, and the gentle

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clatter of plates. As Abuela Carmen sat dinner on the table,

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aros coompoil the jadas a little extra sauce, the way

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the children liked it. Her grandchildren sat cross legged on

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the floor, full and happy, fingers still shiny with grease.

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Their parents had left hours earlier, dressed in their best clothes,

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laughing as they rushed out the door.

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No zemos maayana mamma porten sembienne.

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Their mother said it was going to be a late wedding,

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and the children were excited to spend the night with

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their grandmother. The apartment building stood four stories tall, close

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enough to the water that on quiet nights you could

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hear the sea breathing. Ships passed in the distance, sometimes

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letting out a hole. As they approached the port of

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Laguaya to the east, Carmen barely noticed them anymore.

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She was rinsing dishes. When the older.

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Child, Luis, went quiet to quiet Auela. He said, his

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voice small, there's something outside. Carmen dried her hands and

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followed him to the window. At first she saw only

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the tree across the street, its leaves moving gently in

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the night air. Then she saw the eyes, round, pale fixed.

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An owl sat on a branch level with the children's

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bedroom window, its body still as stone. Its face was

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almost entirely white, the moonlight catching its feathers. It did

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not blink, It did not turn its head. It stared in.

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Louise took a step back. It's looking at us. His

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younger sister, Alejandra, grabbed Carmen's skirt.

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I don't like it.

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Carmen felt something tightening in her chest, an old, unwonted memory,

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but she smiled anyway. It's just an owl, she said softly.

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They hunt at night. But its eyes, Louise said, they

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look smart, like it knows something. The owl tilted its

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head just slightly. Carmen closed the curtain halfway. There's an

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old story, she said, more to herself than to them,

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from where I grew up in Sucre. We called it

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el chaure. The word sent her mind back to the

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feeling of being a child, terrified of a world where

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so many things could happen. They say, when a chowda appears,

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it's not just an animal, it's a warning. It comes

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before something big, something bad. The children stared at her,

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and she realized she was only scaring them the same

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way her grandmother had scared her with these stories when

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she was a child. But that's just stories, she added quickly,

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And besides, we're far from Sucre. You don't see child

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as here, not this close to Karakas. She did not

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say the rest out loud, But this owl looked exactly

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like a chowdeh. Her grandkids accepted the explanation and went

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back to playing. Carmen continued to look out the window

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when she noticed something odd. This owl did not blink,

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It did not move. It was just present, as if

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waiting for something. Her stomach turned in a nod. Yes,

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so no Norman, she whispered to herself. In Sukre, the

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chowd Is stayed near mangroves and old cemeteries. They did

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not come to a park mid buildings. They did not

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come this close to Caracas, and they never stared inside.

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After playing for hours and eating delicious food with their grandmother,

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the children tired themselves out and went to bed. Carmen

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lay on the couch rosary in hand, listening to the

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night as she started dozing off to sleep. Then wings

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slammed against the outside wall and scared Carmen awake. The

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owl hooted. Louise cried out. Carmen sat up and went

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to the bedroom and comforted Louise. The owl probably just

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saw a mouse. There's many of them in the city.

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She held on to Louise and rocked him back to sleep.

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From the bed, she could see outside the bedroom window

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and to the tree that stood out front of the

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apartment building. The owl was still there watching. When the

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children's breathing slowed, it flapped again, louder, this time beating

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the air as if anger at their sleep.

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No Carmen whispered deallos.

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The owl did not move. Each time the children drifted

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towards sleep, the owl would wake them up, either with

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the flap of its wings or another of its unnerving hoots.

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Not loud, not angry, but patient. By one am, Carmen

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had given up on the thought of sleeping. She made

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herself a cup of tea and sat in the living room.

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That's when she noticed that the owl's sounds changed. It

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began to repeat the call. Carmen's hands trembled. She remembered

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her grandmother saying that when the chowder repeated itself, the

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warning had already been ignored. Minutes passed, then another closer, insistent.

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It was now nearly two in the morning. Luis and

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Alejandra had also given up on sleeping. The owl was

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keeping all three of them awake. They sat together on

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the cow, the curtains drawn tight now, though the children

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swore they could still feel the eyes through the glass.

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Abuela Alejandra asked, you said a chowt it comes before

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something bad?

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What kind of bad thing?

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Carmen opened her mouth to answer, and the world exploded.

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A thunderclap ripped through the night, shaking the building so

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hard the walls screamed. The children were thrown forward as

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a deep orange light bloomed across the sky. Then came

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the sound gents low fast, many of them. Another explosion,

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closer this time, then another. Carmen ran to the window

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and tore the curtain aside. A fireball burned above the city.

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Smoke rose in thick columns. The night pulsed with light,

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each flash closer than the last. The explosion came like

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the tearing of the sky. Carmen knew then what the

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Chowdah had been warning them about. The chowdis screeched not

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at them, but into the night, as if announcing what

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had already begun. It flew from tree to tree. When

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it returned, it was no longer at the window. It

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was below them. Carmen crossed herself once aira she said,

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She did not look for the owl again, and sucre

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you never waited for a second sign. She grabbed the children,

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one under each arm and ran. The stairwell shook as

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they descended. Dust fell from the ceiling. Somewhere above them,

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glass shattered. Another explosion hit so close now she felt

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it in her teeth. The children screamed. Louise slipped as

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he ran down the stairs. Carmen fell with him, skin

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scraping against concrete. She prayed aloud as she dragged them

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back to their feet. Father Nostro gestasnelcierlo. The building groaned.

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They burst out the front door, and behind them the

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apartment collapsed. Concrete folded on itself like wet paper. The

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room where they had been standing seconds earlier vanished into

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dust and fire. They ran across the street, coughing, crying alive.

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When the noise finally softened, Carmen turned back across the street.

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The Choudi watched. Carmen did not speak. She only nodded

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once and held her grandchildren tighter. The owl turned away

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and flew to the south. It had already done what

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it came to do. Above it, bomber planes roared across

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the sky, dark shapes against the burning clouds. Carmen held

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her grandchildren close. She knew that Chowdah was not finished.

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It was going to warn as many as it could,

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and this was only the beginning of a long, terrible night.

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Welcome back, well friends, Thank you so much for listening

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to that episode. So it may be pretty apparent where

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we got inspiration for the story, and this is inspired

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by the events that happened recently with the abduction of

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Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. We wanted to use this story

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to speak to how often citizens of a government become

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collateral with what they're doing right again. As I mentioned earlier,

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I know that many of you come here for entertainment

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for relief, so I'm only going to nod to this.

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It was all over the news. It's still ongoing, right.

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Whatever you may think, whatever information may have been shown

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to you online, I'm going to encourage you all to

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make your own opinions about that. I have my own

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opinions on it.

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All I will say is.

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That anytime the US gets involved in foreign countries governmental affairs,

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it doesn't always end well for them. I feel like

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that's a common thing, so I will just.

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We figured that this would be an interesting way to

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fold in current events into this story because this creature

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Chouda does actually come out of Venezuela. And the first

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source that I want to go into for this is

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from I believe it's pronounced Okay. So this first sources,

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I believe it's pronounced dot WordPress, dot com. It's the

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literary commentator and this is translated from Spanish to English.

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Once again, all direct sources will be linked in to

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the Google docs, but Liao dot WordPress, dot com. Legends

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about the Chauda is what this entry is called on

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this blog. And this gives a really good overview about

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what the chowda is. And this is going to be

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very familiar to again stories that we've done in the past.

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I'm not sure what it is with Latina people and birds,

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why we have this like fear or beef with them.

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I have some theories about why that that fear exists

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or why there are those negative connotations to birds, but

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we'll go into that a bit in a while. So

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this says the chaudha or the great horned owl, that's

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the kind of owl it is is a medium sized

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bird with white plumage that inhabits the northeastern region of Venezuela,

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specifically the coastal area of the states of Anzotegui, Sucre

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and Nueva Esparta. It is a nocturnal owl with white

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plumage and large wings. Stories and anecdotes about this nocturnal

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bird among the inhabitants of this region of the country

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indicate that it is a bird of ill omen always

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bringing sorrow or warnings. And so I think this is

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very similar to I think, most iconically, at least with

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Susto de la Trusas. I feel like the latusa is

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a very common spooky bird story where people believe that

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wiches can transform into owls, or there was a specific

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witch that could transform into an owl, and that seeing

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the latusa is a bad omen. Even hearing the letrusa

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screech is a bad omen. It's a sign that something

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bad is going to happen. I feel like this is

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a tiny bit different, and we'll get into it because

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this continues. According to the Madrigarita island chronicler Jose Joaquin

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Sala sad Franco or i guess aka Teguaco, in his

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book Bodoa Sinvetro's the Margharita from two thousand and four,

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he recounts an anecdote in which this bird is the

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very embodiment of the devil, sealing farm animals and frightening

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families with its stealthy flight and terrifying call. According to

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those who have seen it, the Chowda can foretell both

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life and death, so that's that different part. It can

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foretell life and death. If it flies near a house

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and calls three times in succession above it, it indicates

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the death of a family member. However, if its call

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is heard in the early morning, it means that a

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young woman in the household has become pregnant. So again,

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if you hear the Chauda at night, it means death.

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If you hear it in the early morning hours, it

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means that there is a pregnancy in the household. There

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are also some assertions about the omens of plagues and

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droughts that this bird brings in addition to its connection

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with bad luck and the personification of the devil. So essentially,

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this bird, the choud it, is a harbinger. It's a

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harbinger of bad things to happen, primarily bad or primarily death,

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but also bad luck. But also it could be a

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harbinger for pregnancy. So it has that one maybe positive

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depending on how you look at it, that one positive side.

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It could be an announcement gender revealed by chaud it. Right,

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and we're going to talk a bit more about that

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idea of a harbinger. This says possible real events that

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led to the origin of the legend of a chaud it.

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This continues, as can be seen in the stories and

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comments that are repeated among the inhabitants of eastern Venezuela,

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specifically in the states of Nueva ESPARTA and Andwtegui. The

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presence of the choud It in the unfortunate circumstances suffered

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by many families and populations in the mid nineteenth and

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early twentieth centuries helped to enrich the reasons to quote

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a tribute to them, the vicissitudes and situations that occurred.

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I had to look up this word vicissitudes. It's a

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great word, but it essentially means like bad things, bad luck.

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It is important, though, this is an interesting part or

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we're going to make another connection, to remember that at

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the time the mortality rate was high from diseases that

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are now curable. An infection or viral illness could be

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dangerous without proper treatment, and the local superstitions combined with

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the nocturnal habits of a bird or the choud it

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that was feared for its appearance as it flew in

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the dark night sky. Likewise, the excuses attributed to this

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bird spread due to the circumstances surrounding and still existing

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in some communities and the aforementioned states, a hidden pregnancy

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or an illness not treated in time, or just one

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aspect that links the belief to the choud It. So

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a few things to cover here. The first one I

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wanted to talk about is this idea that this story

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may have been sensationalized or come out of really the

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mid nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that it says at

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this time the mortality rate was high from diseases that

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are now curable. Right. This makes me think of the

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story of the Tlauibucci, which we've heard time and time again.

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If you've gone to any of my live events, it's

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a story that I've told pretty commonly. I might have

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to retire that one from live events, but it's such

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a good story because of this, you know, it applies

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to so many things. But anyway, just to give a

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really quick recap, and if you haven't listened to those episodes,

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the Latrusa and the thlowered Bucci, I'll link those in

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the description, and also you can go look those up.

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But the bucci is a turkey vulture bird like creature

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again birds, right, And it is said that it's kind

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of like a werewolf situation. So a person is born

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eighthlouered bucci and they will transform when they need to feed,

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So it's similar in that like human animal transformation aspect.

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But the thloud, Butuci transforms when they need to feed,

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and they feed on blood, so there's a vampiric element

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as well. However, it is said that the Bucci has

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a taste, a specific preference for infant blood. And this

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story was really popular because there's a book that I

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have which is called blood Sucking Witchcraft, and it was

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an epistemological study of what is it called supernatural shoot.

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I'll put the book.

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I'll put a picture of the book here and I'll

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link in the description too, but essentially it was this

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is a real book. It's an academic book. It's a

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big study of these anthropologists or sociologists. I'm not exactly

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sure how they identified their study, but they were studying

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these people in a rural area.

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Of Lashkala, Mexico.

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And this was like early sixties, I think, and there

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was a sudden onset of sudden infant deaths. Overnight, there

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was seven infant deaths and the community responded by saying

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that it was the flowerd Bucci epidemic. It was a

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flowerd Bucci attack, that this bird like creature attacked their community.

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And so they were.

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Processing their grief and their trauma and this really terrible

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event that happened to this small community in one night

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by saying.

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That it was the Tloudpucci that did this.

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So ultimately, spoiler alert, they discovered that many of the

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deaths of the infants because of the sleeping arrangements and

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habits of these communities. They would swaddle the infant, and

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the legend is that it happens in the colder months,

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so they would swaddle the infants and they would sleep

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in the bed with the parents. But the infants unfortunately

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actually passed away from asphyxiation, were essentially smothered seemingly completely accidental, right,

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which we know now compared to the early sixties that

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typically you don't swaddle an infant alone in a crib

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or you know, like things are different now, people know

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different now, and so it reminded me of this because,

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like it said, here at this time where many families

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were reporting the Chowda or a Chowda attacks, or that

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they saw chowdy before something bad happened, this is just

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a bird, right. Ultimately, from a skeptics point of view,

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this is a bird that exists in this region of

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the world, so you're gonna see it, and people would

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see it and something bad would happen, someone would die.

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But this was also in a time when the again

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the mortality rate was really high because there were diseases

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that are now curable that weren't then. So that's why

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that connection.

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Was there for me that I thought was really interesting.

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Something else I wanted to talk about was this idea

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of like harbingers of death or of bad news or

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bad omens. So I think maybe the most popular one

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is Mothman. Right, we know that mothman is and from

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this Wikipedia entry it says an American folklore mothman is

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the name given to a humanoid creature that was reportedly

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seen around Point Pleasant, West Virginia, from November fifteenth, nineteen

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sixty six interesting times to December fifteenth, nineteen sixty seven.

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Despite its name, the original sightings of the creature prescribed

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avian features birds again birds. The first newspaper report was

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published in the Point Pleasant Register dated November sixteenth, nineteen

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sixty six, titled couple sees man sized bird creature something.

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This continues the harbinger part. The creature was introduced to

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a wider audience by Gray Barker in nineteen seventy and

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was later popularized by John Keel in his nineteen seventy

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five book The Mothman Prophecies, claiming that there were paranormal

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events related to the sightings and a connection to the

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collapse of the Silver Bridge. The book was later adapted

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into a two thousand and two film starring Richard gear Add.

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An annual festival in Point Pleasant is devoted to the

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Mothman legend. So that was kind of two sources in one,

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including that Mothman entry. Moving on to the next one.

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This is from a gurakavdigital dot cl and this is

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an entry called Halloween night Birds in the Dark Mythology

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of Latin America, a compilation of myths and legends. So

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this is a list of a bunch of spooky birds. Right,

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I'm gonna go through this. I will I will say

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this is. This was very surprising to me. This from

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twenty twenty four. The Litusa was not on this list,

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nor was Thepucci, which was I was like, what the heck,

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why aren't they on here? But also it was really

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cool because I was like, oh wow, this is They're

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on so many other lists, you know, and I'm always like,

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show me something else. I haven't seen, so this is

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really cool. The first one on here is the Turkey

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Turkey of death, and this says literature tells us that

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in many towns in Venezuela as well as much of Colombia,

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people are terrified to hear the call of the Brazilian guan,

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considered a bad omen. It was said that a witch

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could transform into this bird to avoid detection, or that

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hearing the guan meant death was near or something bad

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was about to happen. Its calls not heard all the time,

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and therein lies the mystery, because you will very rarely

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hear this bird sing. And this was translated from English Spanish,

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so that one it's actually called la pavita de la

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muerte or bavita. But this is showing me a picture

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of an owl, so I'm not sure it could just

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be an owl, but they call it the bavita, which

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is translated for some reason a turkey. Again all about owls.

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The next one is the Chaudi, which is what we

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just spoke about, and then it goes onto the ave

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bruja or bajaro fantasma.

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So the witch bird or the ghost bird. And I

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think this is.

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From Urutao Urutau.

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This says.

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The urutau, also known as Ayaimma, Serenera, Guajojo, Gakui and

472
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Putu and Vieja del Monte, among others, is a species

473
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:44.119
of bird of then Nicidi bidet again not a bird

474
00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:47.039
doctor family. It's a specific kind of species of bird

475
00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:49.599
or family of bird that is found in Central and

476
00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:52.480
South America, from the southeastern region of Mexico, to the

477
00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.160
north and northeast of Argentina and to the south of Batawai.

478
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It is informally known in several countries of the region

479
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:03.440
as the ghost bird or again the U Bahjoo pantasma,

480
00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:07.039
because it hides great and diverse stories behind it. In Peru,

481
00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:09.839
a legend tells of a terrible epidemic that was decimating

482
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the people of a native community. A mother of two,

483
00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:14.640
feeling the first symptoms of the illness, wanted to save

484
00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:16.799
her children from the disease, so she took them to

485
00:27:16.839 --> 00:27:19.200
a distant mountain and left them there. Nearby was a

486
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.640
beautiful stream abundant with fish and fruit trees. With great sorrow,

487
00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:24.920
she left them, knowing she would never see them again.

488
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.359
They played eight fruit and bathed in the stream, but

489
00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:30.079
as night fell, they missed their mother and set out

490
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:33.440
to find her. However, they became lost in the mountains.

491
00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:35.880
Frightened and weeping with sorrow, they begged to the birds

492
00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:37.920
so they could fly to their mother. Then the spirit

493
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of the jungle took pity on them and transformed them

494
00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.720
into birds, and they flew away. But when they reached

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their village they found it deserted. Everyone had died since then.

496
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The legend says, they never stopped flying, and when they

497
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perched atop a tree, wary from searching for their mother,

498
00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.400
they let out their mournful cry, AYI Mama, AYI mama.

499
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So this is like a reverse Yorana story with a

500
00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.319
La Chusa influence from Peru.

501
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.880
Wow. That is so so okay.

502
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Here's the thing is, we're probably we may end up

503
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doing like or dedicating full a full episode to some

504
00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:09.359
of these, because this one is a great story and

505
00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:12.039
I would love to expand on that. Jeff, start whipping

506
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it up. We're doing a bird series. We're going bird

507
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:15.799
watching that. I'm gonna I need to find a way

508
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.119
to like group these episodes, categorize them, and I'm gonna

509
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:20.319
put bird watching as one of the categories. That you

510
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:23.680
can search it somewhere. The next one here is the

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Cuklo crespine. I believe it's pronounced, or the crested cuckoo,

512
00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:31.200
it says. The crested cuckoo, also known as the striped cuckoo,

513
00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:34.119
is a species of cuckoo bird belonging to the if

514
00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:36.720
I say cuckoo one more time, belonging to the here

515
00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:39.359
it is Cuckoola day family and the only member of

516
00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:41.759
the genus to Pera. It is native to Central and

517
00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.200
South America and inhabits areas from southeastern Mexico to Argentina

518
00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:48.640
and Brazil. The legend of the crespin is widespread in

519
00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:51.400
rural Argentina and other parts of Latin America, but it

520
00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:54.359
is a story told and recounted, especially in the province

521
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:57.039
of Chako. It is one of the most captivating legends

522
00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:59.160
of that province and has also served as a source

523
00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:02.240
of inspiration from me many local artists who have composed

524
00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:05.279
songs in honor of this bird and the urban legend.

525
00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:08.079
Legend has it that Grispine was a kind and hard

526
00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:10.599
working man. His life was peaceful, but he had a

527
00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:15.319
wife named Durumisa, who loved parties, music, and especially dancing girl.

528
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:15.640
Same.

529
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.119
Whenever she heard about a party, she would attend and

530
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.519
dance until dawn. Girls same, Actually, no, I'm getting told

531
00:29:21.559 --> 00:29:24.400
for that. One year, with a bountiful harvest, Gurdspin had

532
00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.160
to work from sunrise to sunset to finish the reaping

533
00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:29.680
and threshing. The day seemed endless to him, but he

534
00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:32.759
had to finish his work as quickly as possible. One afternoon,

535
00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:35.160
he arrived at his ranch exhausted and sick from the

536
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:38.400
exertion of his labor, and Drumisa paid him no attention.

537
00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.839
She was busy dancing. Gadspine was still recovering and asked

538
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:43.720
his wife to go to town to get some medicine

539
00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:46.000
so he could feel better and finish working the harvest.

540
00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:48.720
The next day, Ludumisa went, but on the way she

541
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.559
saw a party going on and couldn't resist joining in

542
00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:53.799
dancing among the crowd. As soon as she heard a

543
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:56.640
samba playing, Dumisa, girl, help your.

544
00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:57.599
Man, he's sick.

545
00:29:57.799 --> 00:30:00.880
Between dances and more dances, dom suff forgot about her

546
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:04.480
sick husband. When the grand party ended at dawn, Dumisa

547
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:08.559
returned home and couldn't find Grispine. She searched desperately calling

548
00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:12.680
out Grispin Grispin, but her husband didn't answer. He wasn't there.

549
00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:15.279
Not content with searching only at home, she set off

550
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:16.200
for the wheat fields.

551
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:17.319
Overcome with remorse.

552
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:20.839
Breathless, she continued calling for her husband, her voice fading.

553
00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:23.759
She begged God to give her wings to aid her search,

554
00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:26.839
unaware that Grispin had already died and that some kind

555
00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.440
of neighbors had held awake and buried him. How long

556
00:30:29.519 --> 00:30:32.119
was she dancing for? That is why the Chaco legend

557
00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:35.519
tells that Dumisa grew wings and became a solitary bird,

558
00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:39.799
still searching for her mate, her song echoing Grispin, Grispin,

559
00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:43.839
Dumisa grola. This is interesting, this connection of the story

560
00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:46.039
with the kids and this story of how they were

561
00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:48.960
in a moment of desperation, they begged God for wings

562
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:51.400
to search for their loved one. So this idea of

563
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:54.400
asking God give me wings to do this thing faster,

564
00:30:54.640 --> 00:30:57.039
and God said sure, why not? This last one is

565
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:00.200
el ave los ojos de fuego or the bird with

566
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:04.000
the eyes of fire, that says the Dukon also known

567
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:09.680
as mandao urko Uiko hashpul Burko and Wutko is a

568
00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:13.400
bird of the order of Passerines which inhabits Chile in

569
00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:16.799
southwest Arenthina. The ducion is known as the bird with

570
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.960
fiery eyes because of the reddish tint of its eyes.

571
00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:24.400
In Chiloe mythology, the literature indicates the duisson is said

572
00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:27.400
to be an essmary of sorcerers, as it can often

573
00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:30.079
be seen near the window of homes as a spying

574
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.799
on the inhabitants. In fact, its mythical name is el Mandao,

575
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:38.240
which refers to its following the orders of the sorcerers. Interesting. Actually,

576
00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:40.279
this would make a cool tattoo. Like a tattoo, this

577
00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:42.960
bird with red eyes, striking red eyes, so it's like

578
00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:45.200
a familiar it says. Legend has it that long ago

579
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:47.680
a young woman, her daughter, and her husband lived happily

580
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.240
until one day a red eyed bird began pecking at

581
00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:53.799
their window. Day after day, the family grew increasingly worried

582
00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:57.079
as the bird seemed determined to stay. Suddenly, the young

583
00:31:57.079 --> 00:31:59.960
woman's husband began to feel ill, sick.

584
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:00.880
And very tired.

585
00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:03.720
Without knowing what was wrong, they consulted many doctors, but

586
00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:06.759
none could improve the young husband's condition. The bird cried

587
00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:10.119
day and night, until one day it simply stopped pecking

588
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:13.119
at the window and disappeared. The young woman felt a

589
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:16.839
great sense of relief, but this absence did not last long,

590
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:20.400
as one afternoon the bird reappeared and began pecking at

591
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.319
the window. Frightened, she called her husband, but he did

592
00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:26.599
not answer. She became very worried, but to her surprise,

593
00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:30.200
she found him lying on the floor and lifeless. From

594
00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:32.960
that day on, everyone fears that red eyed bird, for

595
00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:37.640
they say that this bird brings many misfortunes and tragedies. Furthermore,

596
00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.880
for the Yagan people, the duision is a shaman who

597
00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:43.680
must be treated with respect, since if attacked, he can

598
00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:47.119
use his great power to cause great storms. Interesting, many

599
00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:49.880
dualities to this one bird, this kind Honestly, it's kind

600
00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:51.359
of a cute bird. It just looks like it's a

601
00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:53.880
small bird, and it has these again, these like striking

602
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:59.160
fiery ruby eyes. But it goes from being a an emissary, which,

603
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:01.359
let me check the finition of that site, can be sure,

604
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.799
I would assume that means kind of like a familiar, right,

605
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:07.000
a person sent on special mission. Yeah, exactly, so it's

606
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:10.359
kind of like an emissary again, or it's the Mandau,

607
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:12.480
and then it goes from being that to being a

608
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:17.240
harbinger on its own, and then according to the Yagan people,

609
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:22.920
it's a it's its own kind of like autonomous powerful creature, right.

610
00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:25.440
And the Yagan people are a group of indigenous peoples

611
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:28.279
in the southern Cone of South America. Their traditional territory

612
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:31.240
includes the islands south of East La Grande and the

613
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:34.960
Tierra del Fuego, extending their presence into Cape Horn, making

614
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:37.480
them the world's southernmost indigenous human population.

615
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:39.440
Just a quick fact about them. Interesting.

616
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:41.640
Wow, what a great list again and this was by

617
00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:44.759
Tamara Nunez. Thank you Tamra for writing this. And again

618
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:46.920
there was more on this that I did not read.

619
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:48.799
I didn't read every single thing here, but this is

620
00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:52.559
the guragavidigital dot co. On the entry is Birds in

621
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.200
the Dark Mythology of Latin America. Thank you Tamra, because

622
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:57.839
this is great inspiration for further episodes. Y'all. Let us

623
00:33:57.880 --> 00:34:00.319
know in the comments of this episode on the social

624
00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.160
media posts or wherever, which one of these or which

625
00:34:03.160 --> 00:34:05.880
ones or all of them maybe should we cover on Sustal.

626
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.000
The next source that we have is from Kadaka's Chronicles,

627
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:12.199
and this is gul Nation Part one. It seems like

628
00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:16.400
it's a series from this publication Monsters of Eastern Venezuela,

629
00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:19.119
and this is like a list of them. Again, really

630
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:23.079
great kind of inspiration for future episodes. I think Jeff

631
00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:26.000
is setting us up for success. So it starts with,

632
00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:28.199
of course el Chaude, which we've already got a good

633
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:30.639
solid grasp of. On here. There's one here called the

634
00:34:30.760 --> 00:34:35.199
seven headed Serpent from Bolivar, and it says. Legend has

635
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:38.599
it that beneath the middle Stone in the Orinoco River

636
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:43.000
dwells a seven headed serpent, each headling under places surrounding

637
00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.360
the historic center. It is said that if the serpent

638
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:48.119
were to move all its seven heads, the city would

639
00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:51.360
sink into the river. Already, in the early twentieth century

640
00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.000
there were myths of shipwrecks and people going missing around

641
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:56.679
the stone due to the serpent, because the monster dragged

642
00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:59.199
into the depths anything that came near the place. It

643
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:02.199
was last spotted in nineteen eighty five by several inhabitants

644
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:04.199
of the port who saw it stir the waters and

645
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:06.119
cause large waves across the river.

646
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:07.000
This is this.

647
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:10.199
Seems like a like a deity level kind of creature, right,

648
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:12.320
like it has the power to sink a whole city.

649
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:12.880
Interesting.

650
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.679
The next one is Los Ganaimas from Amazonas. It says,

651
00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:20.679
pemin I believe bemon, pimon, p em o n children

652
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.280
don't go out after sundown. Their mothers call for them

653
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.679
and scold them if they see them playing so late,

654
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:28.039
more so if they're near a river or at the

655
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:32.320
fringes of a swamp where ganaimas crawl. These amphibious creatures

656
00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:36.119
with enormous eyes and deft webbed hands hunt in packs

657
00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:39.239
with shrill whistles to single out the prey for their peers.

658
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.960
They drag everything they catch into the water and devour

659
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:46.119
it without even disturbing the surface. Ganaimas man, I didn't

660
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:48.119
know Venezuela well, I mean, there's many places that we

661
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:52.440
don't know about. This really like rich folklore that exists there.

662
00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.920
This next one is Los Chinamitos and it says small

663
00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:59.480
shadowed children who dwell in beaches and open fields. They

664
00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:03.119
confound people, steal their valuables and scare kids by projecting

665
00:36:03.119 --> 00:36:06.719
their silhouettes in the light of flashlights, cell phones, or candles.

666
00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:09.639
Their playful laughter is a hollow echo in coastal nights,

667
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.000
and their empty eyes watch travelers from the trees. They

668
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:16.559
always appear in groups, and some inhabit abandoned houses. Again,

669
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:20.119
ghost children, I think scarier than any kind of other ghosts.

670
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:23.519
The next one is el Carey, a monstrous turtle that

671
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:26.960
sinks boats, dragging them far from the coast. It initially

672
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.800
appears beautiful and beckoning, making fishes go wild about catching it.

673
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:32.800
It shows itself early in the morning when the first

674
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:34.840
boats set out to fish. Also early in the morning

675
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.360
is pop quiz when you hear the chowday in the morning,

676
00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:37.920
what does that mean?

677
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:38.480
Pregnant?

678
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:40.840
When the fishermen already have it in their boat and

679
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:43.599
gloat over the capture, they realize that the lower part

680
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.719
of the armored carapaces shows the relief of a human face,

681
00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.000
as if a man's head had been trapped within it.

682
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.239
Some say they've heard of voice trying to speak from within.

683
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:55.800
Others say they've only heard unintelligible whispers. When the horrified

684
00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:58.360
fishermen throw the creature back into the water, they see

685
00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:00.519
how it grows from within the depths of the sea

686
00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:03.719
and starts to attack the boat until it's reduced to splinters.

687
00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.880
Other legends say that anyone who kills a gore becomes

688
00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:07.840
one himself.

689
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:08.519
Interesting.

690
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:12.519
That is similar to the Tlaudpuci. Right. The legend for

691
00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.239
the Thlaudbucci is that if somebody kills one, they become

692
00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:18.400
one themselves. And the carapaces or the word that I

693
00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:20.079
use there about the turtle, that's what I figured it was,

694
00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:21.960
but it looked it up. It is the hard upper

695
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.239
shell of a turtle. So it's saying that they see

696
00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:27.199
a man's face in the shell of the turtle.

697
00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:27.880
That's interesting.

698
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:30.159
The next one, and we're almost known at this list,

699
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:33.199
is the ghost herd. It says, no, we're not talking

700
00:37:33.199 --> 00:37:36.239
about the one of the government is supposedly raising in

701
00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.400
the fields to provide the country with milk and meat.

702
00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.840
We're talking about the devil's herd grazing near Ethigra, causing

703
00:37:41.880 --> 00:37:44.199
delays for vehicles or making them lose their way, and

704
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.079
cows crossing the field without moving or rumbling like a

705
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:50.800
spectral procession. People have also spotted horses or mules blocking

706
00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.760
the roads, making drivers lose control and then realize with

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a glance back that there was nothing there. They can

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be picked out from normal cows or horses by looking

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them in the eyes. Because the apparitions are blind, A

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pale and pasty film covers their eyes with puss and crusts. Still,

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they move as if they've always known where to go,

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or as if an invisible something or someone with shepherding them.

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So these are ghosts animals, right, ghost herd, but it

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seems it could be a herd of anything, whether it's cows, horses, mules, donkeys.

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What about ducks. No, that makes me sad to think

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of ghost ducks. But it's a herd that basically just

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causes obstruction on the roads. And this last one here

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is the Mapinguadi. This says we share this monster with Brazil.

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A Venezuela shares it with Brazil. A huge, heavy, and

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furry beast spotted in the depths of the jungle. Cryptozoology

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says that perhaps we're in the presence of a megatherium

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or a giant ground sloth that has survived extinction. Native's

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respect and worship them. They allow no one to hunt

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them or do them harm.

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Wow.

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So this is more on the cryptid end here.

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Well, I guess a lot of these were.

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Cryptids, right, But still, this one is saying that it's

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even again also recognized by indigenous peoples. Cool friends, Thank

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