Invunche: The Brujo's Monster

0:24 Big cool friend. It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way, I am still your host and you are still listening to Sousta, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin American cultures. Oh what's this of this old thing that I just tossed on? If you're watching on video in the bonus content for Patreon, I am showing off my Cap ten K metal. I ran the Cap ten K in Austin this morning and it's I think one of my best runs yet. I just need a humble brag for a second. I probably won't wear this for the whole recording, but you we'll probably have seen already. I probably should have posted it probably probably probably Jesus I more, I most likely will have already posted this on social a picture of me running or whatever. But I just got to brag on myself for a second because I did the run this morning and the Captain K. If anybody has run it before, please let me know your experience with it and what you think of it. I think it is a very hard run. The trail itself for the first half of it, the first three miles, it's like all uphill and it's wild. It's very difficult the second half is more manageable, but god, the second half is it's hard because of the first half. Anyway, a week or two ago, I did a run on my own, just I liked to run once in a while as training too, and I did a six mile run in the pouring rain. I'm pretty sure I posted on TikTok about it, and it felt so good, it felt amazing.

1:52 I think it was the fastest I'd ever run. My pace was like ten minutes eight seconds, so that was great, So today I wanted to get close to that at least. My pace ended up being ten minutes thirty six No, ten minutes thirty three seconds, which I think is still really good for me, considering again the amount of hills and inclines that are in this race, and also, I will say, compared to last year when I did the same race, the same trail, I was a minute and a half faster this year. So round of applause, thank you so much. Yes, I am not even humble bragging. I am just bragging bragging because it's hard. It's hard to get out there and do it, but it's really cool to see one the amount of people that make their way out here to do this run, but also to see the people around you that you're running with.

2:36 Like there was a group of firefighters that basically like led the run like they started it. They were the first group I think to cross the start line. And these firefighters were running in their gear, like the pants, the jackets, their helmets, some of them had vests on and it was just so impressive. So and they were also firefighters from it looked like all around Central Texas, not just Austin's. It was really cool. I don't know if there's any runners out there, please let me know. I try to be a runner. I'm not as consistent as I would like to be because I do go to the gym often. I'm literally in my fitness era. I'm a fitness influencer. But yeah, I do. I do like to run. I think it's I think it's in my wahawkan blood. At least that's what twenty three and meters has told me. Right, Okay, enough about that. Like I said, I just felt like bragging out myself for a bit because I was very proud of myself. But again, if I have any listeners that are runners, please let me know. Also, one more thing about running for next year or maybe for another run in the future. I would love to do like a SUSTO team. So if I'm serious about this, if there are runners out there that are listening, please let me know if you are ever in the Austin area, if there's like a virtual way that we can do it. Let's start a running team that we can sign up for Racist together because that would be so fun. All right, moving on, I would do want to give a big thank you to everybody who wrote in for the last letters from the Beyond episode. It was great. Please continue. You to send in your stories using the link in the website and the link tree. It's in the description of every episode as well. It can also be photos, videos, EVPs. Everything

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5:46 And you all, the listeners, the people who write in, the people who I meet at events, who share their stories with me, who tell me that listening to the show reminds them of being with their friends and their family and being at home that keeps me going. You all inspire me so much, and I'm so honored to share this show with you all. This started as selfishly something that I just wanted to hear, and I decided I'm just going to do it myself and hopefully other people will like it. And so many of you all do like it. I mean, that's why you're listening right. So again, I just I don't want to get super emosh, but I just want to say that I truly cannot describe how special this project is to me and how much it means to me, and I hope that some of you all feel that same magic about it. So yeah, seven years. Wow, Hey, here's to seven more. Like I've mentioned previously, there's some things that I've been working on that I feel or it's like the next step of the show. So I'm very excited to share that with you all. I don't want to give too much away.

6:45 I don't want to jinx anything, so I'll just leave it at that, and again, just a big, huge, enormous thank you for everything. With that, again, I don't want to start crying. You all know I'm super chea on. But we're going to get into today's episode, which is it's kind of a sequel or a prequel maybe, depending how you look at it to the Witch Trials of Chiloet episode. And today we will be talking about the Inbunce also known as the Imbuncee. The year was eighteen fifty.

7:32 On a narrow stretch of land where dense forest pressed close against the sea, a small community clung to survival. Homes were built from thick timber, darkened by rain and salt. Smoke curled constantly from low chimneys, carrying the scent of peat and damp firewood into the air. The people here lived simply, but not easily. Fishermen rose before dawn, pushing wooden boats into cold, unforgiving water. Women salted fish, tended small gardens, and patched clothing worn thin by weather. Children learned early that the world around them was both provider and threat, and always there was the understanding, unspoken but ever present, that the island held secrets older than the people who walked it. At the far edge of the village stood a modest home, perched where the land began to break into jagged cliffs. Inside lived a young family.

8:45 They had not always belonged to the island. The father, Francisco, had come from the mainland years earlier, drawn by work and the promise of land. The mother, Rosa, was born there, raised on its stories and its quiet ways of survival. Together they built something fragile but real and special. Their son, Luis, was born in the winter, during a storm that rattled every wall in the village. The midwife that helped deliver him later said the child arrived between gusts of wind, as if the storm had paused to let him through.

9:28 He was small but strong. By the time spring came, his laughter had begun to fill the house, sudden bursts of sound that seemed to push back the heaviness of the island air. For Francisco and Rosa, that laughter became everything, a reason to endure the long days. A promise that their life here at the edge of the world had meaning. Married him everywhere, wrapped in wool, shielded from the cold, neighbors would stop to look at him, sometimes smiling, sometimes lingering a little too long, their expressions hard to read, because even joy on this island was never entirely free of unease. There were rules. There were rules people followed without explanation. Doors were secured before nightfall, windows were shuttered when the wind came from certain directions, and when stories surfaced of shadows near the cliffs of figures, walking where no path existed, people listened but did not ask questions.

10:46 Rosa had grown up with those rules. Francisco learned them slowly, but like all who lived long enough in such places, they came to accept that some knowledge was safer left unquestioned. The night Louise disappeared, raised nothing but questions. The house had been secured as always, the fire had burned low, Luis had been sleeping, and yet by mourning his cradle was empty. There were no signs of struggle, no broken wood, no disturbed earth outside, only absence. The search did not stay quiet. It couldn't. In the days that followed, the parents moved through the village with urgency that unsettled those around them. They knocked on every door, asking anyone who would listen. At first, people responded with sympathy, food was offered, help was given. Search parties spread across the shoreline and into the forest, but sympathy faded quickly. On the islands of the Chiloet Archipelago, there are limits to what people are willing to confront. Francisco pushed beyond the marked paths, searching deeper into the woods. Rosa stayed closer to the village, stopping people at every turn, asking the same question, over

12:18 and over, have you seen Luis? No one had answers, and eventually they were only met with silence. One Sunday, they brought their search into the church. They stood during a mass, breaking the rhythm of prayer, demanding to know if anyone had seen or heard anything. The room tensed, eyes lowered, and prayers halted, because those were not questions meant to be asked aloud. After that, people began to avoid them altogether. Still a few spoke quietly, carefully. They warned that some things were better left alone, that asking too many questions could make things worse. But the warnings did not stop them. They traveled farther, crossing to neighboring settlements, pressing strangers for answers. They learned about caves, about disappearing children, about shadowy figures seen near the cliffs, and eventually about ros Brujos. Once they started asking about the witches of Chilauet, everything changed. Doors closed, faster, conversations ended, sooner people stopped answering altogether. A dead fish was left on their doorstep.

13:49 Strange symbols were carved into their home's exterior. There was an unmistakable feeling of being watched. By then they understood this was no longer just a search. It was something else. Something on the island was pushing back against them. But they did not stop, because silence felt like surrender, and surrender meant losing their child forever, so they kept poking, even as the answers grew more and more dangerous. The years did not heal the loss. They morphed it. What had once been loud and immediate hardened into something quieter, carried beneath the surface of daily life, but it never left.

14:40 Francisco and Rosa continued their search as before, but they started to receive answers in ways they did not expect. It began with the food, fish prepared the night before, fresh salted, carefully stored, was found ruined by mourning. Not slowly spoiled, it was completely rotting. The smell hit them quickly, overpowering their senses and their small home. Francisco and Rosa told themselves it was nothing, but it happened again and again, each time more widespread through their pantry, as if something unseen and putrid had passed through their home and soured their food. Then came the illness. Fatigue at first, then fever.

15:33 It escalated until Francisco could no longer stand without dizziness pulling him down. Rosa, once unbreakable, began to weaken. Even the smallest tasks became burdens. There was no explanation, no illness spreading through the village, only the growing certainty that this was not by chance. Their questions were finally being answered, and they were being cautioned. Fear changed them. They no longer asked questions in public, no longer interrupted gatherings or stood during mass. They sat quietly, listening and watching. But they did not stop looking for Luis they adapted, long walks through new parts of the island, a constant pilgrimage to see if there were any paths not yet taken on a search after the tragedies that continued to strike their home, they understood something they had not before. Whoever had taken their son had done so with intention, and intention could be followed. Sleep did not come easily anymore, and late one night, ten years to the day after their son had gone missing, it did not come at all.

16:58 Rosalie awake listening. At first, it was just the familiar sounds of night, the wind and the distant surf. Then something else, movement. A figure moved outside the house, not just passing by, but circling it, its shape barely held together in the dark, more shadow than body, and beneath the sound of its steps. A voice, low and chanting, not words she could understand, but not random either, intentional and rhythmic whispers. She searched for Francisco and woke him in silence. Together they listened and understood. This was not chance, not a passerby or someone who lost their way. This was the presence that had followed them for years, the one who had been torturing them in their own home.

18:00 The chancings suddenly stopped, and they heard the person outside slowly start walking away. They made their choice without speaking. If this person could be followed, then it could lead them to answers. They stepped into the night and followed at a distance, careful and silent, keeping to the shadows. The figure did not turn back to check if it was being pursued. It did not hesitate as it walked through the moonlit fields. It moved with certainty, as if it knew exactly where it was going, and so they followed away from the safety of their home and the village.

18:46 For the first time in years, they were no longer searching blindly. They were being led, and they did not turn back. What they followed was no longer bound to the earth. At first walked, then it began a chant while moving, and suddenly, without warning, it rose toward the sky. It moved forward, gliding above the ground, and the chanting never stopped. They could not follow it into the sky, so they trailed beneath it through brush over uneven ground, keeping to shadow, never close enough to be seen. The forest gave way to a jagged hillside as they approached a ravine. The figure descended and seemed to float into one of the mounds. A few moments later they were at the figure's vanishing point. It was an entrance to a cave that no one would notice unless they knew to look for it. Francisco and Rosa understood the danger waiting beyond the cave's mouth, but they had not come this far to turn back. The cold struck immediately, small gasps scaping them. The cave did not feel natural, not entirely.

20:05 At first glance, it seemed like any other hollow carved by water and time, uneven stone slick with moisture, the air heavy and unmoving. But the deeper they moved inside, the more the illusion broke. The walls had been worked, sections of rock had been cut into deliberate planes, Edges sharpened where they should have been worn down. Openings had been intentionally widened, as though something had carved space out of the earth for a purpose. Along those walls were markings scratched deep into the rock. They layered over one another in places, repeated in other spots were symbols, fragments of language that held structure but no meaning to those who looked upon them. Some lines were jagged and frantic, others careful and precise. The deeper they went, the thicker the air became. Each breath carried something unfamiliar, something that did not belong to the world above. And then they heard it. Something was moving, not quickly, but dragging, pulling itself forward through the dark. The sound lacked balance, as if whatever made the noise had not been built to move the way it was now forced to. They stopped.

21:33 Instinct told them that whatever approached would see them, whether they moved or not. Then it stepped into view. At first, the shape confused them. It seemed folded in on itself. It was too compact in some places and too extended in others. Then the details emerged. Its body had been altered. That much was clear. It was reshaped into something that defied the structure of typical human form. Its head was twisted completely backward, forcing its face to look over its spine.

22:13 The neck was no longer a neck, but a thick, rigid column, locked in that unnatural position. One leg, broken long ago, had been bent and drawn upward, folded across its back, and surgically fused there, forcing the rest of its body to compensate. In ways that created a permanent lurching imbalance. Its remaining limbs bore the strain of that transformation, elongated, knotted, the joints swollen and misaligned, and covering all of it was a coat of thick, coarse and uneven hair. It grew in patches to dance in some places, too thin in others, as if it had erupted from the skin without pattern or control. It moved closer. Each step came with that same grating sound, the dragging of weight that did not belong to the shape, but carried Its mouth opened too wide, the jaw stretched beyond what bone should allow, revealing rows of sharp, uneven teeth, too many, jagged and overlapping within them. A tongue split cleanly down the center, both halves moving independently, tasting the air. It was not simply monstrous. It was constructed to be that way, and yet its eyes remained human, not clouded or hollow, but

23:47 alive and aware. As it looked between them, something changed. Its movement faltered, the aggression paused for a moment, its expression twisted as it was seemed uncertain, and in that stillness, they saw him, not the body, not what it had become the eyes his eyes. Francisco and Rosa knew those eyes. After all the years, after everything that had been taken, they knew him. They moved forward, drawn by something stronger than fear, stronger than reason. They spoke softly, words shaped by memory, by love, by the desperate belief that something of their child still remained within what stood before them.

24:41 They reached towards him, and for a single fragile moment, it seemed possible. The creature stilled completely, his breathing slowed, his eyes locked onto theirs, unblinking. Then something broke. The sound tore through the cave. The ivunce let out an unnatural howl that was part animal growl, part human scream. Even as they covered their ears, they felt it, not just heard it, but forced into them, into their lungs, their bones, into the spaces where thoughts should have been, every muscle locked in place. They were not frozen, but taken controlled. They understood what was happening. They felt it the loss of control, the stripping away of will, the realization that whatever stood before them was not reaching out in recognition, but responding exactly as it had been trained to.

25:47 The last thing they held onto was the certainty that somewhere inside that twisted body, their child had seen them. They could not move, not on their own, remained upright, balanced only by something that was no longer theirs to command. Their breath came shallow, controlled by an unseen cadence that did not match their own, and in that suspended silence, something else entered the space. It stepped forward with the certainty of someone that had never once been challenged. The figure emerged from the darkness behind the invunche its shape now unmistakable, no longer a shadow at the edge of sight, no longer distant. This was the source, the one who had circled their home, who had whispered into the night and watched and waited, and answered their defiance with careful, deliberate harm. The Brujo, the creature, reacted immediately. Its posture shifted, its unnatural frame folding inward slightly, the aggression draining from it replaced by something closer to obedience. It lowered itself, not fully, but enough to be interpreted as a bow.

27:11 The Brujo reached out and rested a hand against the Vunca's head, with a familiarity that made the gesture more disturbing than any act of cruelty. Then at last he spoke. He told them they had been warned again and again in ways both subtle and clear. They had been given every opportunity to stop, to let the loss of their son remain what it was meant to be, but they had refused. He reminded them of the spoiled food, the sickness that hollowed their strength, the signs carved into their home. None of it was a coincidence. All of it had been acts of mercy, and now there would be no more warnings, only consequences follow The command came without force, without a raised voice, and yet they obeyed. Their bodies moved forward. A smile spread across the Bruco's face, as if this moment had always belonged to him. He turned away from them and began to walk, not looking back, not needing to behind them. The invuncha remained. Its body trembled slightly, not with effort, but with something less defined, something caught between conditioning and something that had not fully disappeared.

28:38 Its eyes followed them, tracking their movement as they were led deeper and deeper into the dark. The sound that escaped. It was not the scream from before, not the weapon it had been taught to wield. The cry it let out with something else, something fractured, something that did not belong to the thing it had been made into. For a moment it lingered, as if something inside it strained against its purpose, as if something remembered. But the moment passed. It always passed slowly mechanically. It returned to its post, to the entrance of the cave, to the place it had been bound to guard. Its body settled into stillness, its breathing, even its gaze fixed once more on the threshold between worlds. Whatever it had felt, whatever it had remembered, was no longer allowed to remain, because the Vuncea had a purpose, a duty carved into its very body to guard, to serve, to ensure that what lay hidden within the cave remained hidden, no matter who came searching, no matter who had once been and family. Welcome back, well friends,

30:18 thank you for joining us for that story. So again, as I mentioned in the intro, that was kind of like, I don't know where in the which is of Chilae timeline universe that would fall on, but this could be either the prequel the sequel. If it was a movie, where would this be the sequel? And it just follows a story of a nam bunche? Now, actually this would probably be a prequel. I feel like, I don't know, I don't know why I'm trying to develop a timeline of this. Hey, movie producers call me a twenty four bluomhouse, other independent horror production houses. What's up? Let's make this happen. But anyway, so, if you listened to the Witches of Chilae episode, which if you haven't, please go check that out link in the description below, you will know more or less what the story is about already, but we wanted to explore it a bit more because it was just so horrific. So we're gonna go through a few sources here. Some of these sources may be similar, they may be things that we heard before, but we're approaching them from this perspective this time. So bear with me if you hear me repeat things from that episode. But again, I think hearing the story that we just told today and going through those same sources, I think again, it just it provides you a different lens to interpret those sources with. So really quick. This first source is from good old Wikipedia if you all haven't yet, if you haven't done it before, I would highly encourage you to also donate to Wikipedia. But this is an entry on the imbunche and so this is probably going to be

31:49 in the title of the episode, and we also talk about it in the Witches of Chilawea episode. This creature, not I don't even want to say creature, that doesn't feel right. This person that is turned in to a creature. So this person is known as an imbunche or in vunche with a V, a V or a B and then the am or that you'll see the spelling, But the spelling is it's interchangeable changes, I think, depending on which specific community you may be speaking with. Right, because this is from again the Chiloe Archipelago, which is a collection of islands in Chile. Right, So this says in the Chilo de folklore and Chilote mythology of Chiloett island in southern Chile. This happened last time I said Chila like twelve times. The Imbuncee is a legendary monster that protects the entrance to a warlocks cave. So in the Witches of Chiloette episode or the Witch Trials of Chiloette episode.

32:41 They speak about how the sect of male witches or warlocks, however you want to call them brujos, I think is a more general term that people would use today. They had their kind of like meeting spot was in a concealed cave, and the entrance to this cave was allegedly guarded by an in bunche or an invunche. Further than that, this may talk about it, but the inbunche was said to be sort of the way that it was described, or the way that I understood it was, it was like a familiar of sorts to these witches. But this continues in the description. The embunche is a deformed human with its head twisted backwards. And when we say deformed, I'm not talking about I always want to be very careful because there are people that are born that don't look what we expect a typical person to look like. Right, So I don't want this to be you all know me, y'all know who I am. But you say I want you to understand that, you know, I don't mean mean it that way. But when I'm using the word deformed, I mean deformed as an action, like this person was deformed.

33:48 They were not born deformed, if that makes sense. So that's what I think that that means when it says that here. But anyway, it says that its head was twisted backwards so full one eighty to face its spine along with having twisted This is a little different than the one that we use because there are different ways that it's described, but this says along with having twisted arms, fingers, nose, mouth, and ears. The creature walks on one foot or on three feet, actually one of the one leg and two hands, but then they're like used as feet because one of its legs is attached to the back of its neck. It has blue skin and sharp teeth. The Imbunche cannot talk and communicates only by guttural, rough and unpleasant sounds.

34:32 So we know that, and again this will come up in one of the other sources that in the sect of witches they had a person or I think it was like two people whose primary function in the group was to do this to the children, because they would abduct children because they were young. And this is a morbid way to think about it, but I'm assuming because their bodies are still more like kids' bodies are more malleable. Is the word? Is it malleable or malleable? But you know kid's bodies are like their rubber. You know, they fall, they bounce, our back up, they heel, they're fine. So I think if we were trying to think through this, and I'm not a doctor, pediatricians chime in, I don't know. We're suspending belief here. It would be easier to twist the limbs of a younger body, of a child's body than to do to an adult body. Does that make I feel like if we were thinking about this medically, that's based on what I've been told before, like that would be why. I'm not sure, but this says according to legend, the imbunche is a firstborn child less than nine days old that was kidnapped or sold by their parents to a brujo chilote. If the baby had been christened or they got their their baptism or whatever, the warlock debaptizes them through unknown means of black magic. So I'm sure there's a ritual to wash away the baptism.

35:54 The transforms the child into a deformed, hairy monster by breaking their right leg and twisting it over their back. When the child is three months old, their tongue is forked or split and their teeth turned sharp. Their skin turns blue, and the warlock applies a magic cream over the child's back to cause thick hairs. So I'm wondering if again, if we're thinking about this medically, the teeth can be filed down the blue skin, maybe they're like overdosing them with what is it, the colloidal or coloidial. I think it's colloidal silver. There's that one documentary right about that cult leader who her skin turned blue or have like a blue hue to it because she was taking too much of that colloidal silver. So maybe they're giving them that, and they're putting some sort of like hair growth treatment, like some monoxidil on their bodies to force hair to grow. So I don't know. I'm just trying to think again medically about this, because I'm like, how does this make sense either way? This says during its first months, the ambuncha is fed on black cat's milk, which they referred they this is black cat, but I want to say that it may be goat's milk, like they call a female goat a black cat. I don't know.

37:07 I saw it in another source. I'm going to try to find out what this means because it's not an actual black cat, but anyway, on black cat's milk and goat flesh. There you go, and when old enough. With human corpses from cemeteries, besides guarding the entrance to the warlocks cave, I'm going to say one thing, sorry before I continue. Corpses from the cemeteries would make sense with what we also read or heard about in the Witch Trials episode, because it was said that the witches of Brujos they had the power of flight because it would make this vest made out of human skin, So they would go dig up corpses. If the skin was good enough, they would use it, right, So it would make sense that they would get the skin to make this vest that gives them the power of flight, and then to dispose of the body, just give it to the imbuncea to eat. Right. So yeah, that is bringing back that memory from that episode. This says, besides guarding the entrance to the Warlocks cave, the imbunche is used by Warlocks as an instrument for revenge or curses. Again, it acts as sort of like familiar and because it has acquired magical knowledge over its lifetime spent guarding the cave, even if the Inbunsche is not initiated into wizardry, it sometimes acts as the warlocks advisor, so they're not completely just treated only as like an animal or a monster. This uses the word advisor, but it would make sense like this is still a human being. They're bound to pick up on some of the knowledge, right if you intern at a place long enough not to like really dilute it down, but if you intern at a place you know, you learn things, right. This continues. The Imbunche leaves the

38:38 cave only in certain circumstances, such as when the cave is destroyed or discovered and the warlock moves to another cave, or when the Warlocks have need of it and carry it thrashing and yelling, scaring the townspeople and announcing misfortune to come. The Imbunsche also comes out when the Warlocks take it to the Warlocks Council, and I think this would be the Warlocks Council again. I'm going to reference that episode a lot. The witch Child's episode was when they would go to that ghost ship. I forget what the name was, but there was a ghost ship that they would go on and you had to be like a magical practitioner or a shaman of some sorts to be able to get onto the boat and you could take you know, you have like plus once they would take their in bunscha with them. Right. The Imbuncha is fed solely by warlocks and is only allowed to search for its own edibles if food is lacking inside the cave.

39:26 So again, very few circumstances under which it is able to explore outside of the cave. Right. The next source kind of that we have here, This is a Facebook post that came up with a really interesting picture that I will be posting. And this is from I believe it's a page called Spooky Cryptid Posting. Yes, it's a public group on Facebook and it's just a short entry. But I thought the picture was really cool. It says, oh, I think the picture is from the comic book. Yeah, it's from Constantine. The comic Constantine, the Inmbuncha makes an appearance. But this says, according to legend, the Imbunche is a firstborn child less than nine days old that was kidnapped or sold by their parents to Abduhuchila. That's exactly what was in the Wikipedia entry. Talks about debaptizing them, says that they are transformed into a hairy monster by breaking their legs. Oh, so this is really just from the Wikipedia entry. Sorry, but I thought that the picture was really cool. And that's of course going to pop up on screen here if you're watching the video and the bonus content. But I will also post this on the social media post for this episode. And we're actually going to take a really quick break here. Welcome back, well friends.

40:46 The next source that we have here is from wikifandom. This talks about I believe its appearance in comic books. Yes, and I thought this is really interesting. This is why I wanted to include this. So this says in buncha and this is with the V spelling in Vunche is a fictional character in comic books published by the American company DC Comics. He first appeared in Swamp Thing volume two, number thirty seven, that came out in June nineteen eighty five. This is another one of those things that I really want a copy of it and was created by Alan Moore and Rick Weitch or Veitch. I'm not too sure, but if anybody knows where to get like old comic books, please let me know. It doesn't even have to be like pristine condition s tier ten rating. I don't know how people rate these things like the you know what I mean, the Pokemon cards and stuff like that. I don't need it to be a pristine condition first edition kind of thing like that. I just want one to have it because I think it's so cool that this isn't a DC comic. But this continues to say here, and this is the history of it, based on the comic books, not on the other sources that we have.

41:54 But I'm assuming according to the comics it says here. The history is that the en Vunsche is a demonic entity that arrived on the earth plane. It was created by a South American coven of male witches. Again, that would probably be the Rechta Provincia right. Taking the form of a twisted humanoid with a backwards head and disjointed limbs, it systematically hunts down and murders select individuals who were close to John Constantine. It's in the Constantine storyline, including the arth twhile Newcastle Crew I'm assuming that's from the books, right, and this talks about more of its like storyline in the books. But I thought it was interesting that this they say that it was a demonic entity that was created by the Provincia, which is the coven, and not that it was a person that was kidnapped and turned into this thing. Anyway, this continues and says the Invuncha then returns to the Council to the cave where it attacked John Constantine. Capturing Constantine, it dragged him down into the darkest depths of the cavern where the Brujos conducted their rituals on him. And this says that its powers and ability are superhuman reflexes, superhuman agility, and expert climbing ability, which you would think with how twisted up the body is, that this person has superhuman reflexes, is agile or can climb?

43:13 I don't know, I would like that just doesn't make too much, Hey, but it's a comic book, where this is it's a comic book and we're talking about a fictional character, so like, you know, what sense really does it need to make? Right? In other media? This says the Invunsha appeared in the Constantine episodes. So in the actual Constantine show, which I need to watch this episode, maybe I can find a clip of it and put it in here for the video content. It says the episodes two of them the Saint of Lost Resorts and The Saint of Lost Resorts Part two. So if you want to look it up, the Invunscha makes an appearance in the Constantine Show. Okay. This next source, this is one that we used a lot for the actual, uh, the Witch Trials of Chilo episode, and this is the Smithsonian one. This is Into the Cave of Chila's Witches from Smithsonian Magazine by Mike Dash published in twenty thirteen. Also, if you want the direct links to these sources, they will be in the sousal Google docs on the bonus content on Patreon. So again it's Into the Cave of Chila's Witches from Smithsonian Magazine. Okay. The first mention in this article, it says it is possible from other records of the Righteous Province or the Erechta Provincia, which again is the coven that sect of witches to learn more about the hideous creatures that Guignet god swore he had encountered in eighteen sixty and Guignet God was a witness.

44:32 He was someone that said that he and he he bore witness to the Brujos, to their rituals. He saw their cave and he encountered, you know, the creatures that guarded it. There was two that were mentioned here. One of them was known as the Chivato, which is a goat humanoid sort of monster. And then the other, it says, and by far the most dangerous of the cave's twin denizens was the Invunche or Inbunche. Like the Chivato, it had one It's been a human baby and had been kidnapped in infancy. Chatwind describes what happened to the baby next. This was I think something that I read in the episode, and I gave a warning that this was really intense because this is about the abuse of a child. So if you don't want to hear this, this talks about what they do to the body to turn this person into an ivuncea. So if you want to, please will free to skip ahead, like a minute or two. But this says when the sect needs a new invunce, the Council of the cave orders a member to steal a boy child from six months to a year old. The deformer, a permanent resident of the cave, starts work at once.

45:37 So again, the deformer is someone who this is their position in the sect. This is their job here. Their one role is to deform a person. This says. He disjoints the arms and legs and the hands and feet. Then begins the delicate task of altering the position of the head, day after day, and for hours at a stretch. Twists the head with a tourniquet until it has rotated through an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees, that is, until the child can look straight down the line of its own vertebrae. There remains one last operation for which another specialist is needed. So this is a second person whose role, or one of their roles in this group, is to inflict this abuse onto again a child. This says.

46:25 At full moon, the child is laid on a workbench, lasted down, with its head covered in a bag. The specialist cuts a deep incision under the right shoulder blade into the hole, he inserts the right arm and sews up the wound with thread taken from the neck of an eu, which is ewe. It's a type of bird. I believe when it has healed, the Invunscha is complete. Okay, if you skipped ahead, hopefully that was enough time. We are going to continue to talk more about through like some of the mentions here of the Inbunsche. But that part was just really intense. This continues naked, fed principally on human flesh and confined below ground. Neither the Chivato nor the Invunche received any sort of education. Indeed, it was said that neither ever acquired human speech in all the years they served what Chatlin calls the Committee of the Cave. So there's another, like a nickname for Direta Provincia.

47:18 They called them the Committee of the Cave. Nevertheless, he concludes quote over the years does develop a working knowledge of the committee's procedure and can instruct novices with harsh and guttural cries. Again, as we mentioned previously from that Wiki entry, that because this is still a human being with a brain and the capacity to think and feel, that they spend so much a time around the Brujos, they do start to learn. And so although they were never taught to speak and in some legends or some accounts that their tongues are split and they they are unable to speak, that they can still communicate, like it says here with harsh and guttural cries. Okay, so there are a few other mentions about the in Vunche, but it doesn't really describe much about them. It describes like alleged encounters or how like some people were sent to their death by invuncha like basically the Inuncia would kill them.

48:09 And then again, according to some legends, they eat human flesh, so they're just sent to their death, right, I think, and I said this last time when I did the episode about them, was that the way that this article ended kind of freaked me out. Is because this says still several mysteries remained when the verdicts were handed down the after the witch trials. Had every member of the Maoria, which was the leading council within the Erechta Provincia, had been accounted for. Had the society actually been headquartered in a hidden cave. If so, what happened to its ancient leather book of spells and what became of the in Vunce. Again, because allegedly, and according to some of the sources when we did the Witches a Chilawai episode is that many of these witches they had their their own in Vunce.

48:51 And so if this was true and if they, you know, they went to trial, some of them were sent to prison and or like if they were disbanded, like what happened to these Inbunche where they just set free in the wild to Rome where they hidden? Like what happened to them? Where are they? Where did they go? Where did you come from? Cotton Eye Joe? Okay, sorry, you know what, We're gonna take a break on that one. Welcome back, Weld friends. Okay. This next one I thought was very interesting because people use in Bunche or the identity of inning Bunche or Inbunche as like a like a metaphor, so to speak. So this is from the New York Times and this is article I think it's an op ed from February eighteenth, nineteen eighty five. This is titled yeah, it's an opinion piece, and it's titled a rural Chilean Legend Come True. And this is about like the politics at the time, which after reading it, I was like, oh, this kind of still applies right, But I thought it was really interesting that they the way that they used this, the way that they use the identity of anybunche as analogy. So this says. Old legends are still told in the Chilean countryside. One legend explains what happens when a child disappears. He has been kidnapped by witches and his captors to ensure his servitude,

50:21 break all his bones, sew together different parts of his body, and turn his head around so he must always look and walk backward. His eyes, ears, and mouth are constantly stitched up. The creature is called a nimbuncee. There is no way of knowing if General Augusto Pinoche, Chile's strong man for eleven years, ever heard that tale when he was young, but there can be no doubt that he has done everything in his power to turn each Chilean and ChIL itself into an embuncee. Chileans do not know, cannot know if today their voices will be overheard, if tomorrow their bodies will be fractured. But even if they are not arrested or beaten up by the police, or thor thrown out of work, they are in a way already, like imbunches. They are isolated from each other, their means of communicating suppressed, their connections cut off, their senses blocked by fear. The last time I was here in September nineteen eighty three, on my first brief visit after ten years of exile, I found a different situation. There was hope that things would change soon. The country was openly defiant, demanding General Pinochet's resignation. Everywhere I went, people seemed to have lost their fear. This was especially true of the opposition magazines. I was astounded by their audacity. They were unmasking the regime's corruption, denouncing the violation of human rights, discussing how to ensure a quick return to democracy. This cannot last, I said to myself. Either the government goes or it cracks down. This continues to talk more about the abuses of the government in Chile at the time.

51:53 At the end, this finishes up by saying, these journalists are aware that their situation is precarious. They have been in set, simply harassed and threatened. Their finances are in shambles. They know that soon they may have to face a military tribunal accused of subversion. And that some will be banished into internal exile, to the desert, to an island near the South Pole. By refusing to be silenced, the journalists, their news sources, and their readers are telling Chile's rulers that some people in my country, who knows how many, refuse to be turned into imbuncez forever. This was written by Ariel Dorfmann. This says who returned to Chile for a two month visit and was a novelist who lived in Bethesda Aerial. Drfman snaps to you, Ariel, Oh, I'm trying not to yell in the microphone because oh my god.

52:45 I was like, this is from It's also really fucked up that this was from nineteen eighty five in Chile, and reading through this, I was like, holy shit, this is America right now. The government is trying to break us, to twist our bodies and sew them back together in a way that leaves us impaired and unable to fight. They want to silence us, so they fork our tongues, they don't allow us to communicate, They keep their foot on our necks. I was like, holy shit, this is such a good analogy for what was happening at that time in Chile, but also what is happening today in America, Like people are being censored, there's so much propaganda out there. The government is literally it's a fascist nation right now, like sorry, not sorry, but it is. It's fucking crazy.

53:28 The Supreme Court overruled or the Supreme Court ruled in favor of conversion therapy, like ices out here killing people in the streets. When I read this, it literally it blew my mind. And this is why studying history is so important, because if we do not learn history, we are doomed to repeat our mistakes. So I didn't expect this to be such like a political story or a political episode even of Suso, but like, we cannot let the government turn us into embuncha's. We cannot let them deform our morality and our our personhood, our humanity like ugh, ugh, this article is just so so I'm like squirming in my seat because it was so good. And y'all know, I really try not to get on my soapbox because I can and I will and I do, but not I'm not as high as I have the potential too, I will just say that much. But I just thought that piece was so interesting and was like wow, wow, wow, waa, this is so cool. Okay, This next source is from Vampire Underscore Mythology dot e n academic dot com. This says, this is from the academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. This is an entry on the Invuncee from the Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology, which at first I didn't really think of the in vuncez as like vampires, but I'm like, well, yeah, human flesh makes sense, right, Like vampires typically aren't described as eating human flesh, but they drink human blood, so I don't know, is it vampire? Is it's not zombie because they're not dead, right, So like, I think vampire maybe the closest right Anyway, this says the Invunia. Of all

55:02 the vampiric beings, creations, and creatures, the Invunia is perhaps the most pitable. In Chile, a witch will kidnap a first or male child while it is an infant and take it back to their cave, a place accessible only through an underground lake entrance. So this is where Jeff and I saw. Jeff, I'm just seeing this right now. Actually, I know I read this last time too. But oops, we weren't sure in the story. We're like, is the entrance underwater? Is it in a ravine? I said on the side of a ravine, because I know that you're not Jeff. But I'm telling you, I'm justifying myself, and I will tell him right now too. I said ravine because in the I think in the Smithsonian entry they talk about the entrance of the cave being in a ravine or in the side of ravine, but this is saying it's an underground lake entrance anyway. Once the baby is in the bujo's layer, the bujoa first breaks one of its legs and twists it over the baby's back.

55:55 The other leg, arms, hands, and feet are broken and disjointed and twisted into unknown natural positions. A hole is cut under the right I'm sorry, this is the same should have been the same warning as earlier. Skip ahead a minute or two because this is going through the similar description as earlier. A hole is cut under the right shoulder blade, and then the right arm is inserted through it, so that the arm will look as if it is growing off of the child's back. The baby's head is gradually bent and shaped over time as well, so that it will be misshapen really quick. That part is a little different, So this is saying that the head is misshapen, whereas other sources are saying that it is rotated. But this continues. After the procedure is completed. The witch then rubs a magical ointment over the mangled infant, causing it to grow thick hair all over its body. Finally, this is the tongue part. Its tongue is cut down the center so that it resembles a snake's forked tongue.

56:45 A baby no longer. The Invunce is from then on fed a diet of human flesh, completing the transformation. This wraps up. The creature is never able to leave the witch's layer, as it does not have the physical capability of swimming due to the imposed deformities of its body. That's actually that was a good phraser there to describe what I was trying to say earlier, imposed deformities, unless the witch chooses to use his magic to fly the Invunha out. Otherwise, its primary duty is to act as a guardian of the cave, killing all who enter it unless they know the secret to entering the cave without violence. This is an interesting detail which I was like, where did this come from? They say kissing it on its ass.

57:25 This looks like this is a translation though, like this was not in English at first, So I wonder if it means literally kissing the Invunce's ass, physically kissing its ass and that's the only way to get in or does it mean like kissing its ass, like being nice to it, bribing it, brown nosing it, you know what I mean? Because, like I said, this is and in Vuncha is still a human being. It's a person. It has thoughts, it has feelings, It can understand human interaction. Right. I know, it's trained to be aggressive, but that's why I'm like, does it mean literally kissing its ass or does it mean like be a kiss to it? I don't know. This continues. The creature can emit a blood curtaining scream. This is another detail that was in the story, a talent it gained in lieu of the ability to speak.

58:08 The sound is enough to freeze a man with fear permanently. The invunce and this is some extra lore about it has control over a lesser being and this is a tricky word for me. It says a gehwek gouve. Oh, I guess it wasn't that tricky, So it has control over eight quote lesser being the invuncee uses it to lure young girls to the water, abduct them, and bring them back so that it can drain them dry of their blood. That says only a hero can kill a thread gewk gouve and an invunce. So the invunce uses it commands I guess the thread gewik guve to bring people back to it so it can drain their blood.

58:50 And that is where the vampire part comes in, which this is really the only source that I think we have about an in vuncha drinking blood. I don't think it really pops up anywhere else. We're going to take one more quick break welco about girlfriends. The next source that we have here, this is from looks like a blog spot that says mythology at Chilawe Chilean Beastiary mythological Beings by I want to say, Marcelo Lira Sevia and this says this has a very important detail that I messed up earlier, but I knew it was not literally what it said so this says the in Vunce is the gatekeeper of the geek Gavi Cave, which is the place where allegedly the erector provincia the righteous province the sect of witches. That's what their cave was called, the geek Gavi, which is a qui c a v I cave.

59:53 It says he is taken to the cave by the witches, who again kidnap him at birth. From infancy, he is fed the milk a black cat. Here in parentheses this says it was not a goat. I don't know. Well, I know where I got goat from is because it includes it. But this says he has fed the milk of a black cat. And in parentheses it says an indigenous woman who practices witchcraft, which I had never heard in all my seven years of doing Susto and the hundreds of stories or over one hundred stories, which also, by the way, we did one hundred episodes, and we never like addressed that. Sorry, we'll do it at two hundred and my bad. But this says, yeah, I've never come across this idea that an indigenous woman who practices witchcraft is known as a black cat. And you know what I'm going to see if this brings up anything.

1:00:43 I don't see anything on Google about this about indigenous women who practice witchcraft being known as black cats. There's of course the association of black cats as familiars, but I don't know. I think I'm gonna have to do like a much deeper dive on this. But I just I thought that was very interesting. Okay. This continues and goat meat. That's where I got the goat idea from. Later, as an adult, he has fed human flesh stolen from cemeteries. Again, his body begins to atrophy at a young age. And then this talks about the again imposed deformation of the invunce. But I wanted to read this one because I thought that black cat detail was it just stuck out to me for some reason. Again, I had never heard of that reference. Okay, and this continues. It says if a quote Lempiole or a person unconnected to witchcraft accidentally sees him, they are forever transformed into an endless sado, which is someone who is bewitched, losing their mind in reason, so it drives them mad allegedly. And this continues if for any reason, death from the plague were to occur. It was believed that the invunia had been beaten at night or that someone had unleashed a pack of wild dogs on him, but they failed to kill him. So that's interesting. Again, maybe there's some sort of like magical property to the invunia.

1:01:57 Maybe it is bestowed on them by the witches as a form of protection, because they're like, this is my invunch. I need them for whatever reason, because again they may act as a familiar, so it could be like a protection spell, like if something bad happens to this, whoever did it to them is going to get sick or or something, you know. This also continues. His revenge then was to unleash a plague and wipe out the entire nearby community. Yeah, this says continues that only his quote masters were allowed to look upon the inbunche, and it was said that the flesh of this creature cured any disease, which is why the sorcerers fought over or divided the body of a nyvunche after its death. That's another very interesting detail to me, that it's flush. Maybe they would make like tinctures or oils or something out of the flesh of any Munche when it died, and then now that the witches we're fighting over its body to use it.

1:02:46 This next source that we have here is from Chiloe Mio Loico dot col and this says that this is from a book by doctor Bernardo Guintana Mancilla. It's called Mythologic called Chiloe. And there is this like a table of contents here. I'm gonna maybe read this whole book because it sounds cold. But there's the biography of doctor Bernardo. There's the origin of the Chiloe Archipelago, the myths of Chiloe, and then there's a section about witchcraft and its characters. And in this list, I'm seeing some Sousto episodes for the future. It says the Sorcerer, the flying One, the Invunce, the Seahorse, the the gu the Mandao will go or Ducion or Dugon sorry, the again, the dne the Pyramids.

1:03:36 And then it says online book and mini book for school children. Of course, I need to download this whole thing and turn it into a paperback so I can read it if it's available online anyway. So this talks about the Invuncha and it says the word in Vunche comes from Velice, the language of the primitive inhabitants of Chiloe. I'm not sure I like that word. I'm gonna be honest, primitive inhabitants. I'm thinking maybe they mean the indigenous people of Chiloe. But this continues from eyvun being small and che being man, that is, small man, I vuncee small man. This continues to obtain any vunche and this again goes through the whole process. That they would kidnap the firstborn, they would impose the deformities. If the child was baptized, they would debaptize them. This talks about the split tongue and the either reshaping or the twisting of the head.

1:04:29 That says how they feed him human flesh quote black cat milk and goat meat as well. Then this continues. After explaining all that again he retains only a certain understanding of humanity necessary to recognize sorcerers. His role consists again of guarding the entrance of the cave, which we know is the Gigavi Cave where witchcraft takes place. He's the guardian of the temple who will only grant entry to those who fulfill the password at a specific nearby tree and finally bowed deeply before him, et cetera, going back to kissing his ass. Maybe it did mean the figurative kiss his ass, like you have to bow deeply to him to show respect to kiss his ass right to gain entry or access to the cave, This says.

1:05:11 Having completed his mission, he seals the cave entrance with a large stone and devotes himself to his soul pleasure eating human flesh. Sometimes sorcerers mistakenly steal the firstborn son from a sorcerer's home. In such cases, they return him to his own home, but they can no longer repair the deformities of his broken leg. So I guess there is honor amongst thieves. Right. Thus the unfortunate boy and later man must walk like a three legged animal for the rest of his life. So this tom makes it seem like they abduct the child, they impose the deformities, and then they realize, oops, this is actually someone's kid who I respect and took them back. But they're like, sorry, look what I did. I don't know. It continues. On rare occasions, some improvement is achieved by rubbing it with the fat of a black dog. I'm not sure exactly what that is referencing. I think it's just a type of ritual. Maybe this says Some inhabitants of the picturesque town of Chuanchi, claim that a humble resident of that town, nicknamed Juan de Soul, was kidnapped as a child by sorcerers to transform it into an invunce. They only managed to break and twist his right leg. Upon learning that he was the son of a sorcerer, they immediately returned him to his home, although with the deformities he still bears today right exactly. The invunce or this says, Machuko de la Cueva, as it is also known, has a short lifespan, aging prematurely. Well, yeah, I would assume that that is a ton of trauma on the body that would cause them to age prematurely. Of obviously, this continues.

1:06:37 When it reaches this age, the sorcerers ruthlessly sacrifice it, charring its flesh like any other animal, and distributing it among their favored machis or shamans. With this chatki, they prepare a famous what does it say, panacea, envied by doctors worldwide. I need to look this word up panacea. A panacea is a mythical hypothetical cure, all right, remedy designed to solve all diseases or difficulties. So, like we said earlier, they fight over the body after it dies, but apparently when it reaches its like its limit, they just sacrifice it and they make a remedy from its body. This says according to the falling procedure, a piece of the chotkey is taken and toasted in a guyana, which is a type of clay pot, until charred. Once carbonized, it is ground into a fine powder in a teak mortar.

1:07:27 The ashes are sifted through a sieve made of ninomotol, which is a type of bird's hair, and finally it is boiled in water from the thriguienne, which is another type of bird. God, it's like a long recipe during a quote laugh of the teak, a type of bird. The fortunate patients who take the dose of this marvelous medicine are cured of all their ailments and will only die of old age. Okay, I probably made that more difficult. There was lots of parentheses in one sentence. I'm just gonna say that much about this, But essentially there is a process by which they can use the charred body of this sacrifice to invuncea to make this medicine. It's a cure all whoever takes it. Essentially doesn't become immortal, but they will never get sick, and they will die of old age. Right does then continues. The fat of the invuncha tree is another highly prized ingredient for the machis or the mapucha healers. They use it to prepare ointments that alleviate rheumatism and soothe all kinds of pain, proving especially useful during procedures to set broken bones. Some highly skilled machis also use this fat to make a very fine cream scented with extracts of potato, alcohol and special herbs. This cream has the remarkable ability to beautifully aid in particular, rejuvenate the face and in general the entire female complexion. Because that's what it's all about, right, how can we make women more beautiful to men? Anyway? Sorry, this finishes up here. The invuncha jealous guardian of the entrance to the witch's cave, may represent that intellectually inferior

1:08:57 human element, but which in its servitude favors the development of the activities of the superior groups of men. Now, that is interesting. This is very like you know what, this kind of like. I'm just gonna say, this gives me the type of and I'll speak to my own communities or communities, the type of queer people and the type of I will say, Mexicans that I have seen, like from my hometown, my home community, and not just my town, but the whole area. The type of people that are so desperate to assimilate and align themselves with their oppressor's values, hoping that one day they'll get a seat at the table and they'll they'll get a pat on the head for being good. But they will never gain that respect. And I wish more people understood that.

1:09:42 Don't be the inmbunchha. Don't be the familiar to your oppressor and give them what they want, right because they deem you inferior. You are not actually inferior. They just deem you that way. Okay, Like what did I say, soap box me, I can't resist it anyway. This finishes off here. His body deformed by the sorcerers may point to an attempt to explain and those physical deformities that are observed relatively frequently in individuals who are also attributed with magical powers. Reverence as a prelude to entering the cave perhaps teaches us the humility that the individual should always have towards all his fellow human beings, even knowing himself to be superior to them all. Which again, really, if that's if that's, if that's if that's the lesson here is to like it says here to remain humble, right, It teaches us humility that you should always have towards your fellow human beings. I think it should have ended there.

1:10:32 And the addition of even knowing himself to be superior to them, like, well, then you're missing the point. Then. If you're humble and you see the humanity, the humility in the people around you, then you wouldn't think I'm doing this even though I know I'm better than you. Girl, What that's that's a crazy thing to say, I think. Anyway, that was the last source. We do have another link here. This is about the Constantine TV series and the episodes that the Inguinchek comes out in, and it's in episodes eight and nine, and I'll just read really quick. I'll just rattle off what they say. Again. It was the same to Last Resorts Part one and two. These aired on December twelve, twenty fourteen, and January sixteen, twenty fifteen.

1:11:15 And this talks about basically the plot of these two episodes. So I won't read it because it's very text heavy, but I would say that you all should watch it and let me know what you think. I'm going to watch this for sure. Maybe I'll do like a live reaction to them or something in a video or a stream of some sorts, because yeah, it's it's always really cool to see how some of these stories are represented in pop culture and media. But yeah, that was that was it for the Sources. Thanks welcome back, well friends, thank you so much for listening to today's episode, and again for seven magical, spectacular years. Here's too. I don't know how many more years, however many more I got in me, but I'm gonna keep them going because, like I said earlier, Sustal means so much to me, the community that we have built around Sustal, with you listening, you like, interacting with the show, coming out to events, sending your everything, everything, everything is just so much to talk about, but it is so truly truly special to me.

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