April 16, 2026

Invunche: The Brujo's Monster

Invunche: The Brujo's Monster
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Every witch has a familiar. In this episode of Susto, Ayden follows the legends of the truly twisted makings of the witches of Chiloe's little helpers.



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Big cool friend. It's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way,

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I am still your host and you are still listening

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to Sousta, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin American cultures.

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Oh what's this of this old thing that I just

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tossed on? If you're watching on video in the bonus

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content for Patreon, I am showing off my Cap ten

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K metal. I ran the Cap ten K in Austin

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this morning and it's I think one of my best

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runs yet. I just need a humble brag for a second.

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I probably won't wear this for the whole recording, but

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you we'll probably have seen already. I probably should have

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posted it probably probably probably Jesus I more, I most

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likely will have already posted this on social a picture

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of me running or whatever. But I just got to

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brag on myself for a second because I did the

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run this morning and the Captain K. If anybody has

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run it before, please let me know your experience with

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it and what you think of it. I think it

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is a very hard run. The trail itself for the

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first half of it, the first three miles, it's like

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all uphill and it's wild. It's very difficult the second

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half is more manageable, but god, the second half is

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it's hard because of the first half. Anyway, a week

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or two ago, I did a run on my own,

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just I liked to run once in a while as

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training too, and I did a six mile run in

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the pouring rain. I'm pretty sure I posted on TikTok

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about it, and it felt so good, it felt amazing.

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I think it was the fastest I'd ever run. My

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pace was like ten minutes eight seconds, so that was great,

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So today I wanted to get close to that at least.

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My pace ended up being ten minutes thirty six No,

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ten minutes thirty three seconds, which I think is still

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really good for me, considering again the amount of hills

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and inclines that are in this race, and also, I

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will say, compared to last year when I did the

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same race, the same trail, I was a minute and

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a half faster this year. So round of applause, thank

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you so much. Yes, I am not even humble bragging.

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I am just bragging bragging because it's hard. It's hard

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to get out there and do it, but it's really

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cool to see one the amount of people that make

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their way out here to do this run, but also

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to see the people around you that you're running with.

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Like there was a group of firefighters that basically like

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led the run like they started it. They were the

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first group I think to cross the start line. And

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these firefighters were running in their gear, like the pants,

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the jackets, their helmets, some of them had vests on

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and it was just so impressive. So and they were

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also firefighters from it looked like all around Central Texas,

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not just Austin's. It was really cool. I don't know

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if there's any runners out there, please let me know.

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I try to be a runner. I'm not as consistent

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as I would like to be because I do go

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to the gym often. I'm literally in my fitness era.

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I'm a fitness influencer. But yeah, I do. I do

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like to run. I think it's I think it's in

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my wahawkan blood. At least that's what twenty three and

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meters has told me. Right, Okay, enough about that. Like

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I said, I just felt like bragging out myself for

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a bit because I was very proud of myself. But again,

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if I have any listeners that are runners, please let

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me know. Also, one more thing about running for next

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year or maybe for another run in the future. I

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would love to do like a SUSTO team. So if

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I'm serious about this, if there are runners out there

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that are listening, please let me know if you are

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ever in the Austin area, if there's like a virtual

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way that we can do it. Let's start a running

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team that we can sign up for Racist together because

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that would be so fun. All right, moving on, I

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would do want to give a big thank you to

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everybody who wrote in for the last letters from the

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Beyond episode. It was great. Please continue. You to send

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I can share all of that either on an episode

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if you all collected stories or you encourage other people

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Damascus by Chuck Tingle and I am already halfway through

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this book. I'm really really liking it already. I love

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the direction that it's moved in. And a reminder, the

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it at that, and again, just a big, huge, enormous

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thank you for everything. With that, again, I don't want

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to start crying. You all know I'm super chea on.

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But we're going to get into today's episode, which is

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it's kind of a sequel or a prequel maybe, depending

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how you look at it to the Witch Trials of

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Chiloet episode. And today we will be talking about the

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Inbunce also known as the Imbuncee. The year was eighteen fifty.

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On a narrow stretch of land where dense forest pressed

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close against the sea, a small community clung to survival.

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Homes were built from thick timber, darkened by rain and salt.

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Smoke curled constantly from low chimneys, carrying the scent of

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peat and damp firewood into the air. The people here

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lived simply, but not easily. Fishermen rose before dawn, pushing

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wooden boats into cold, unforgiving water. Women salted fish, tended

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small gardens, and patched clothing worn thin by weather. Children

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learned early that the world around them was both provider

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and threat, and always there was the understanding, unspoken but

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ever present, that the island held secrets older than the

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people who walked it. At the far edge of the

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village stood a modest home, perched where the land began

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to break into jagged cliffs. Inside lived a young family.

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They had not always belonged to the island. The father, Francisco,

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had come from the mainland years earlier, drawn by work

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and the promise of land. The mother, Rosa, was born there,

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raised on its stories and its quiet ways of survival.

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Together they built something fragile but real and special. Their son, Luis,

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was born in the winter, during a storm that rattled

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every wall in the village. The midwife that helped deliver

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him later said the child arrived between gusts of wind,

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as if the storm had paused to let him through.

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He was small but strong. By the time spring came,

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his laughter had begun to fill the house, sudden bursts

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of sound that seemed to push back the heaviness of

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the island air. For Francisco and Rosa, that laughter became everything,

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a reason to endure the long days. A promise that

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their life here at the edge of the world had meaning.

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Married him everywhere, wrapped in wool, shielded from the cold,

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neighbors would stop to look at him, sometimes smiling, sometimes

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lingering a little too long, their expressions hard to read,

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because even joy on this island was never entirely free

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of unease. There were rules. There were rules people followed

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without explanation. Doors were secured before nightfall, windows were shuttered

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when the wind came from certain directions, and when stories

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surfaced of shadows near the cliffs of figures, walking where

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no path existed, people listened but did not ask questions.

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Rosa had grown up with those rules. Francisco learned them slowly,

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but like all who lived long enough in such places,

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they came to accept that some knowledge was safer left unquestioned.

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The night Louise disappeared, raised nothing but questions. The house

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had been secured as always, the fire had burned low,

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Luis had been sleeping, and yet by mourning his cradle

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was empty. There were no signs of struggle, no broken wood,

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no disturbed earth outside, only absence. The search did not

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stay quiet. It couldn't. In the days that followed, the

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parents moved through the village with urgency that unsettled those

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around them. They knocked on every door, asking anyone who

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would listen. At first, people responded with sympathy, food was offered,

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help was given. Search parties spread across the shoreline and

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into the forest, but sympathy faded quickly. On the islands

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of the Chiloet Archipelago, there are limits to what people

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are willing to confront. Francisco pushed beyond the marked paths,

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searching deeper into the woods. Rosa stayed closer to the village,

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stopping people at every turn, asking the same question, over

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and over, have you seen Luis? No one had answers,

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and eventually they were only met with silence. One Sunday,

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they brought their search into the church. They stood during

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a mass, breaking the rhythm of prayer, demanding to know

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if anyone had seen or heard anything. The room tensed,

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eyes lowered, and prayers halted, because those were not questions

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meant to be asked aloud. After that, people began to

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avoid them altogether. Still a few spoke quietly, carefully. They

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warned that some things were better left alone, that asking

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too many questions could make things worse. But the warnings

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did not stop them. They traveled farther, crossing to neighboring settlements,

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pressing strangers for answers. They learned about caves, about disappearing children,

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about shadowy figures seen near the cliffs, and eventually about

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ros Brujos. Once they started asking about the witches of Chilauet,

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everything changed. Doors closed, faster, conversations ended, sooner people stopped

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answering altogether. A dead fish was left on their doorstep.

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Strange symbols were carved into their home's exterior. There was

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an unmistakable feeling of being watched. By then they understood

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this was no longer just a search. It was something else.

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Something on the island was pushing back against them. But

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they did not stop, because silence felt like surrender, and

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surrender meant losing their child forever, so they kept poking,

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even as the answers grew more and more dangerous. The

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years did not heal the loss. They morphed it. What

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had once been loud and immediate hardened into something quieter,

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carried beneath the surface of daily life, but it never left.

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Francisco and Rosa continued their search as before, but they

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started to receive answers in ways they did not expect.

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It began with the food, fish prepared the night before,

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fresh salted, carefully stored, was found ruined by mourning. Not

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slowly spoiled, it was completely rotting. The smell hit them quickly,

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overpowering their senses and their small home. Francisco and Rosa

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told themselves it was nothing, but it happened again and again,

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each time more widespread through their pantry, as if something

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unseen and putrid had passed through their home and soured

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their food. Then came the illness. Fatigue at first, then fever.

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It escalated until Francisco could no longer stand without dizziness

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pulling him down. Rosa, once unbreakable, began to weaken. Even

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the smallest tasks became burdens. There was no explanation, no

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illness spreading through the village, only the growing certainty that

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this was not by chance. Their questions were finally being answered,

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and they were being cautioned. Fear changed them. They no

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longer asked questions in public, no longer interrupted gatherings or

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stood during mass. They sat quietly, listening and watching. But

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they did not stop looking for Luis they adapted, long

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walks through new parts of the island, a constant pilgrimage

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to see if there were any paths not yet taken

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on a search after the tragedies that continued to strike

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their home, they understood something they had not before. Whoever

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had taken their son had done so with intention, and

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intention could be followed. Sleep did not come easily anymore,

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and late one night, ten years to the day after

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their son had gone missing, it did not come at all.

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Rosalie awake listening. At first, it was just the familiar

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sounds of night, the wind and the distant surf. Then

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something else, movement. A figure moved outside the house, not

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just passing by, but circling it, its shape barely held

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together in the dark, more shadow than body, and beneath

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the sound of its steps. A voice, low and chanting,

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not words she could understand, but not random either, intentional

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and rhythmic whispers. She searched for Francisco and woke him

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in silence. Together they listened and understood. This was not chance,

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not a passerby or someone who lost their way. This

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was the presence that had followed them for years, the

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one who had been torturing them in their own home.

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The chancings suddenly stopped, and they heard the person outside

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slowly start walking away. They made their choice without speaking.

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If this person could be followed, then it could lead

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them to answers. They stepped into the night and followed

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at a distance, careful and silent, keeping to the shadows.

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The figure did not turn back to check if it

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was being pursued. It did not hesitate as it walked

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through the moonlit fields. It moved with certainty, as if

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it knew exactly where it was going, and so they

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followed away from the safety of their home and the village.

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For the first time in years, they were no longer

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searching blindly. They were being led, and they did not

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turn back. What they followed was no longer bound to

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the earth. At first walked, then it began a chant

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while moving, and suddenly, without warning, it rose toward the sky.

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It moved forward, gliding above the ground, and the chanting

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never stopped. They could not follow it into the sky,

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so they trailed beneath it through brush over uneven ground,

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keeping to shadow, never close enough to be seen. The

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forest gave way to a jagged hillside as they approached

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a ravine. The figure descended and seemed to float into

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one of the mounds. A few moments later they were

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at the figure's vanishing point. It was an entrance to

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a cave that no one would notice unless they knew

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to look for it. Francisco and Rosa understood the danger

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waiting beyond the cave's mouth, but they had not come

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this far to turn back. The cold struck immediately, small

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gasps scaping them. The cave did not feel natural, not entirely.

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At first glance, it seemed like any other hollow carved

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by water and time, uneven stone slick with moisture, the

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air heavy and unmoving. But the deeper they moved inside,

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the more the illusion broke. The walls had been worked,

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sections of rock had been cut into deliberate planes, Edges

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sharpened where they should have been worn down. Openings had

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been intentionally widened, as though something had carved space out

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of the earth for a purpose. Along those walls were

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markings scratched deep into the rock. They layered over one

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another in places, repeated in other spots were symbols, fragments

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of language that held structure but no meaning to those

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who looked upon them. Some lines were jagged and frantic,

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others careful and precise. The deeper they went, the thicker

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the air became. Each breath carried something unfamiliar, something that

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did not belong to the world above. And then they

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heard it. Something was moving, not quickly, but dragging, pulling

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itself forward through the dark. The sound lacked balance, as

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if whatever made the noise had not been built to

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move the way it was now forced to. They stopped.

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Instinct told them that whatever approached would see them, whether

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they moved or not. Then it stepped into view. At first,

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the shape confused them. It seemed folded in on itself.

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It was too compact in some places and too extended

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in others. Then the details emerged. Its body had been altered.

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That much was clear. It was reshaped into something that

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defied the structure of typical human form. Its head was

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twisted completely backward, forcing its face to look over its spine.

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The neck was no longer a neck, but a thick,

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rigid column, locked in that unnatural position. One leg, broken

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long ago, had been bent and drawn upward, folded across

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its back, and surgically fused there, forcing the rest of

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its body to compensate. In ways that created a permanent

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lurching imbalance. Its remaining limbs bore the strain of that transformation, elongated, knotted,

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the joints swollen and misaligned, and covering all of it

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was a coat of thick, coarse and uneven hair. It

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grew in patches to dance in some places, too thin

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in others, as if it had erupted from the skin

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without pattern or control. It moved closer. Each step came

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with that same grating sound, the dragging of weight that

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did not belong to the shape, but carried Its mouth

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opened too wide, the jaw stretched beyond what bone should allow,

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revealing rows of sharp, uneven teeth, too many, jagged and

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overlapping within them. A tongue split cleanly down the center,

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both halves moving independently, tasting the air. It was not

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simply monstrous. It was constructed to be that way, and

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yet its eyes remained human, not clouded or hollow, but

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alive and aware. As it looked between them, something changed.

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Its movement faltered, the aggression paused for a moment, its

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expression twisted as it was seemed uncertain, and in that stillness,

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they saw him, not the body, not what it had

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become the eyes his eyes. Francisco and Rosa knew those eyes.

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After all the years, after everything that had been taken,

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they knew him. They moved forward, drawn by something stronger

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than fear, stronger than reason. They spoke softly, words shaped

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by memory, by love, by the desperate belief that something

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of their child still remained within what stood before them.

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They reached towards him, and for a single fragile moment,

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it seemed possible. The creature stilled completely, his breathing slowed,

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his eyes locked onto theirs, unblinking. Then something broke. The

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sound tore through the cave. The ivunce let out an

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unnatural howl that was part animal growl, part human scream.

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Even as they covered their ears, they felt it, not

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just heard it, but forced into them, into their lungs,

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their bones, into the spaces where thoughts should have been,

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every muscle locked in place. They were not frozen, but

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taken controlled. They understood what was happening. They felt it

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the loss of control, the stripping away of will, the

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realization that whatever stood before them was not reaching out

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in recognition, but responding exactly as it had been trained to.

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The last thing they held onto was the certainty that

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somewhere inside that twisted body, their child had seen them.

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They could not move, not on their own, remained upright,

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balanced only by something that was no longer theirs to command.

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Their breath came shallow, controlled by an unseen cadence that

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did not match their own, and in that suspended silence,

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something else entered the space. It stepped forward with the

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certainty of someone that had never once been challenged. The

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figure emerged from the darkness behind the invunche its shape

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now unmistakable, no longer a shadow at the edge of sight,

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no longer distant. This was the source, the one who

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had circled their home, who had whispered into the night

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and watched and waited, and answered their defiance with careful,

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deliberate harm. The Brujo, the creature, reacted immediately. Its posture shifted,

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its unnatural frame folding inward slightly, the aggression draining from

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it replaced by something closer to obedience. It lowered itself,

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not fully, but enough to be interpreted as a bow.

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The Brujo reached out and rested a hand against the

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Vunca's head, with a familiarity that made the gesture more

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disturbing than any act of cruelty. Then at last he spoke.

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He told them they had been warned again and again

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in ways both subtle and clear. They had been given

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every opportunity to stop, to let the loss of their

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son remain what it was meant to be, but they

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had refused. He reminded them of the spoiled food, the

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sickness that hollowed their strength, the signs carved into their home.

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None of it was a coincidence. All of it had

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been acts of mercy, and now there would be no

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more warnings, only consequences follow The command came without force,

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without a raised voice, and yet they obeyed. Their bodies

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moved forward. A smile spread across the Bruco's face, as

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if this moment had always belonged to him. He turned

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away from them and began to walk, not looking back,

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not needing to behind them. The invuncha remained. Its body

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trembled slightly, not with effort, but with something less defined,

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something caught between conditioning and something that had not fully disappeared.

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Its eyes followed them, tracking their movement as they were

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led deeper and deeper into the dark. The sound that escaped.

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It was not the scream from before, not the weapon

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it had been taught to wield. The cry it let

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out with something else, something fractured, something that did not

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belong to the thing it had been made into. For

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a moment it lingered, as if something inside it strained

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against its purpose, as if something remembered. But the moment passed.

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It always passed slowly mechanically. It returned to its post,

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to the entrance of the cave, to the place it

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had been bound to guard. Its body settled into stillness,

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its breathing, even its gaze fixed once more on the

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threshold between worlds. Whatever it had felt, whatever it had remembered,

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was no longer allowed to remain, because the Vuncea had

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a purpose, a duty carved into its very body to guard,

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to serve, to ensure that what lay hidden within the

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cave remained hidden, no matter who came searching, no matter

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who had once been and family. Welcome back, well friends,

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thank you for joining us for that story. So again,

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as I mentioned in the intro, that was kind of like,

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I don't know where in the which is of Chilae

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timeline universe that would fall on, but this could be

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either the prequel the sequel. If it was a movie,

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where would this be the sequel? And it just follows

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a story of a nam bunche? Now, actually this would

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probably be a prequel. I feel like, I don't know,

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I don't know why I'm trying to develop a timeline

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of this. Hey, movie producers call me a twenty four bluomhouse,

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other independent horror production houses. What's up? Let's make this happen.

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But anyway, so, if you listened to the Witches of

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Chilae episode, which if you haven't, please go check that

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out link in the description below, you will know more

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or less what the story is about already, but we

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wanted to explore it a bit more because it was

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just so horrific. So we're gonna go through a few

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sources here. Some of these sources may be similar, they

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may be things that we heard before, but we're approaching

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them from this perspective this time. So bear with me

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if you hear me repeat things from that episode. But again,

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I think hearing the story that we just told today

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and going through those same sources, I think again, it

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just it provides you a different lens to interpret those

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sources with. So really quick. This first source is from

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good old Wikipedia if you all haven't yet, if you

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haven't done it before, I would highly encourage you to

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also donate to Wikipedia. But this is an entry on

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the imbunche and so this is probably going to be

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in the title of the episode, and we also talk

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about it in the Witches of Chilawea episode. This creature,

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not I don't even want to say creature, that doesn't

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feel right. This person that is turned in to a creature.

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So this person is known as an imbunche or in

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vunche with a V, a V or a B and

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then the am or that you'll see the spelling, But

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the spelling is it's interchangeable changes, I think, depending on

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which specific community you may be speaking with. Right, because

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this is from again the Chiloe Archipelago, which is a

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collection of islands in Chile. Right, So this says in

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the Chilo de folklore and Chilote mythology of Chiloett island

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in southern Chile. This happened last time I said Chila

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like twelve times. The Imbuncee is a legendary monster that

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protects the entrance to a warlocks cave. So in the

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Witches of Chiloette episode or the Witch Trials of Chiloette episode.

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They speak about how the sect of male witches or warlocks,

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however you want to call them brujos, I think is

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a more general term that people would use today. They

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had their kind of like meeting spot was in a

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concealed cave, and the entrance to this cave was allegedly

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guarded by an in bunche or an invunche. Further than that,

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this may talk about it, but the inbunche was said

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to be sort of the way that it was described,

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or the way that I understood it was, it was

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like a familiar of sorts to these witches. But this

469
00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:20.440
continues in the description. The embunche is a deformed human

470
00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:23.839
with its head twisted backwards. And when we say deformed,

471
00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:26.079
I'm not talking about I always want to be very

472
00:33:26.119 --> 00:33:30.480
careful because there are people that are born that don't

473
00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:34.759
look what we expect a typical person to look like. Right,

474
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:37.400
So I don't want this to be you all know me,

475
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:39.799
y'all know who I am. But you say I want

476
00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:41.960
you to understand that, you know, I don't mean mean

477
00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:43.920
it that way. But when I'm using the word deformed,

478
00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:48.000
I mean deformed as an action, like this person was deformed.

479
00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:50.799
They were not born deformed, if that makes sense. So

480
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.079
that's what I think that that means when it says

481
00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:56.079
that here. But anyway, it says that its head was

482
00:33:56.200 --> 00:34:00.119
twisted backwards so full one eighty to face its spine

483
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:03.519
along with having twisted This is a little different than

484
00:34:03.559 --> 00:34:05.440
the one that we use because there are different ways

485
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:11.599
that it's described, but this says along with having twisted arms, fingers, nose, mouth,

486
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:14.920
and ears. The creature walks on one foot or on

487
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:18.519
three feet, actually one of the one leg and two hands,

488
00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:21.199
but then they're like used as feet because one of

489
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:23.920
its legs is attached to the back of its neck.

490
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:28.039
It has blue skin and sharp teeth. The Imbunche cannot

491
00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:32.360
talk and communicates only by guttural, rough and unpleasant sounds.

492
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:35.079
So we know that, and again this will come up

493
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.639
in one of the other sources that in the sect

494
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:41.280
of witches they had a person or I think it

495
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:44.960
was like two people whose primary function in the group

496
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:50.480
was to do this to the children, because they would

497
00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.119
abduct children because they were young. And this is a

498
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:55.320
morbid way to think about it, but I'm assuming because

499
00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:59.800
their bodies are still more like kids' bodies are more malleable.

500
00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:02.119
Is the word? Is it malleable or malleable? But you

501
00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:04.159
know kid's bodies are like their rubber. You know, they fall,

502
00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:05.880
they bounce, our back up, they heel, they're fine. So

503
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:08.239
I think if we were trying to think through this,

504
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:11.599
and I'm not a doctor, pediatricians chime in, I don't know.

505
00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:15.360
We're suspending belief here. It would be easier to twist

506
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:20.239
the limbs of a younger body, of a child's body

507
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:23.119
than to do to an adult body. Does that make

508
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.679
I feel like if we were thinking about this medically,

509
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:27.960
that's based on what I've been told before, like that

510
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.239
would be why. I'm not sure, but this says according

511
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:34.440
to legend, the imbunche is a firstborn child less than

512
00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:38.360
nine days old that was kidnapped or sold by their

513
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.199
parents to a brujo chilote. If the baby had been

514
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:46.559
christened or they got their their baptism or whatever, the

515
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:50.880
warlock debaptizes them through unknown means of black magic. So

516
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:54.039
I'm sure there's a ritual to wash away the baptism.

517
00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:59.360
The transforms the child into a deformed, hairy monster by

518
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.599
breaking their right leg and twisting it over their back.

519
00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:05.239
When the child is three months old, their tongue is

520
00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:09.559
forked or split and their teeth turned sharp. Their skin

521
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:13.039
turns blue, and the warlock applies a magic cream over

522
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:16.400
the child's back to cause thick hairs. So I'm wondering

523
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:19.440
if again, if we're thinking about this medically, the teeth

524
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.320
can be filed down the blue skin, maybe they're like

525
00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:26.280
overdosing them with what is it, the colloidal or coloidial.

526
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:29.480
I think it's colloidal silver. There's that one documentary right

527
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:32.800
about that cult leader who her skin turned blue or

528
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:34.760
have like a blue hue to it because she was

529
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.559
taking too much of that colloidal silver. So maybe they're

530
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.760
giving them that, and they're putting some sort of like

531
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:43.599
hair growth treatment, like some monoxidil on their bodies to

532
00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:46.079
force hair to grow. So I don't know. I'm just

533
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:48.880
trying to think again medically about this, because I'm like,

534
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.840
how does this make sense either way? This says during

535
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:56.840
its first months, the ambuncha is fed on black cat's milk,

536
00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:00.360
which they referred they this is black cat, but I

537
00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:03.519
want to say that it may be goat's milk, like

538
00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:07.159
they call a female goat a black cat. I don't know.

539
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:09.760
I saw it in another source. I'm going to try

540
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:12.119
to find out what this means because it's not an

541
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:14.719
actual black cat, but anyway, on black cat's milk and

542
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:17.679
goat flesh. There you go, and when old enough. With

543
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:21.760
human corpses from cemeteries, besides guarding the entrance to the

544
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:24.239
warlocks cave, I'm going to say one thing, sorry before

545
00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:27.559
I continue. Corpses from the cemeteries would make sense with

546
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:30.519
what we also read or heard about in the Witch

547
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:33.840
Trials episode, because it was said that the witches of

548
00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:36.719
Brujos they had the power of flight because it would

549
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:39.960
make this vest made out of human skin, So they

550
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:43.519
would go dig up corpses. If the skin was good enough,

551
00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:45.679
they would use it, right, So it would make sense

552
00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:47.800
that they would get the skin to make this vest

553
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:50.639
that gives them the power of flight, and then to

554
00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:53.280
dispose of the body, just give it to the imbuncea

555
00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:55.920
to eat. Right. So yeah, that is bringing back that

556
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:58.760
memory from that episode. This says, besides guarding the entrance

557
00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:01.880
to the Warlocks cave, the imbunche is used by Warlocks

558
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:04.840
as an instrument for revenge or curses. Again, it acts

559
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:07.679
as sort of like familiar and because it has acquired

560
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:11.039
magical knowledge over its lifetime spent guarding the cave, even

561
00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:14.559
if the Inbunsche is not initiated into wizardry, it sometimes

562
00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:18.519
acts as the warlocks advisor, so they're not completely just

563
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.920
treated only as like an animal or a monster. This

564
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.280
uses the word advisor, but it would make sense like

565
00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:28.079
this is still a human being. They're bound to pick

566
00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:30.119
up on some of the knowledge, right if you intern

567
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:32.920
at a place long enough not to like really dilute

568
00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:35.239
it down, but if you intern at a place you know,

569
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.119
you learn things, right. This continues. The Imbunche leaves the

570
00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:41.559
cave only in certain circumstances, such as when the cave

571
00:38:41.639 --> 00:38:45.039
is destroyed or discovered and the warlock moves to another cave,

572
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:47.960
or when the Warlocks have need of it and carry

573
00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:52.199
it thrashing and yelling, scaring the townspeople and announcing misfortune

574
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.519
to come. The Imbunsche also comes out when the Warlocks

575
00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:58.280
take it to the Warlocks Council, and I think this

576
00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:01.000
would be the Warlocks Council again. I'm going to reference

577
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.159
that episode a lot. The witch Child's episode was when

578
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:06.719
they would go to that ghost ship. I forget what

579
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.639
the name was, but there was a ghost ship that

580
00:39:08.639 --> 00:39:11.159
they would go on and you had to be like

581
00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:14.000
a magical practitioner or a shaman of some sorts to

582
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:16.119
be able to get onto the boat and you could

583
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:18.360
take you know, you have like plus once they would

584
00:39:18.360 --> 00:39:20.400
take their in bunscha with them. Right. The Imbuncha is

585
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:22.960
fed solely by warlocks and is only allowed to search

586
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:26.599
for its own edibles if food is lacking inside the cave.

587
00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:30.280
So again, very few circumstances under which it is able

588
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:33.840
to explore outside of the cave. Right. The next source

589
00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:36.280
kind of that we have here, This is a Facebook

590
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:39.320
post that came up with a really interesting picture that

591
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:42.320
I will be posting. And this is from I believe

592
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:47.159
it's a page called Spooky Cryptid Posting. Yes, it's a

593
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:50.119
public group on Facebook and it's just a short entry.

594
00:39:50.119 --> 00:39:53.159
But I thought the picture was really cool. It says, oh,

595
00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:55.480
I think the picture is from the comic book. Yeah,

596
00:39:55.519 --> 00:40:00.000
it's from Constantine. The comic Constantine, the Inmbuncha makes an appearance.

597
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.760
But this says, according to legend, the Imbunche is a

598
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.360
firstborn child less than nine days old that was kidnapped

599
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:07.840
or sold by their parents to Abduhuchila. That's exactly what

600
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.679
was in the Wikipedia entry. Talks about debaptizing them, says

601
00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:14.559
that they are transformed into a hairy monster by breaking

602
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:17.039
their legs. Oh, so this is really just from the

603
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:19.880
Wikipedia entry. Sorry, but I thought that the picture was

604
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:21.599
really cool. And that's of course going to pop up

605
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:23.840
on screen here if you're watching the video and the

606
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:26.679
bonus content. But I will also post this on the

607
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:30.599
social media post for this episode. And we're actually going

608
00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:46.760
to take a really quick break here. Welcome back, well friends.

609
00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:50.639
The next source that we have here is from wikifandom.

610
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:54.639
This talks about I believe its appearance in comic books. Yes,

611
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:56.440
and I thought this is really interesting. This is why

612
00:40:56.480 --> 00:40:59.239
I wanted to include this. So this says in buncha

613
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:02.039
and this is with the V spelling in Vunche is

614
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:05.599
a fictional character in comic books published by the American

615
00:41:05.679 --> 00:41:10.440
company DC Comics. He first appeared in Swamp Thing volume two,

616
00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:14.000
number thirty seven, that came out in June nineteen eighty five.

617
00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.360
This is another one of those things that I really

618
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:18.840
want a copy of it and was created by Alan

619
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:22.559
Moore and Rick Weitch or Veitch. I'm not too sure,

620
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:25.719
but if anybody knows where to get like old comic books,

621
00:41:26.079 --> 00:41:27.960
please let me know. It doesn't even have to be

622
00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:34.280
like pristine condition s tier ten rating. I don't know

623
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:36.119
how people rate these things like the you know what

624
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:37.760
I mean, the Pokemon cards and stuff like that. I

625
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.320
don't need it to be a pristine condition first edition

626
00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:43.239
kind of thing like that. I just want one to

627
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:44.679
have it because I think it's so cool that this

628
00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:48.320
isn't a DC comic. But this continues to say here,

629
00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:51.559
and this is the history of it, based on the

630
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.280
comic books, not on the other sources that we have.

631
00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:56.880
But I'm assuming according to the comics it says here.

632
00:41:56.920 --> 00:41:59.440
The history is that the en Vunsche is a demonic

633
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.960
entity that arrived on the earth plane. It was created

634
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:06.159
by a South American coven of male witches. Again, that

635
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:10.199
would probably be the Rechta Provincia right. Taking the form

636
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:14.199
of a twisted humanoid with a backwards head and disjointed limbs,

637
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:18.239
it systematically hunts down and murders select individuals who were

638
00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:22.960
close to John Constantine. It's in the Constantine storyline, including

639
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:28.320
the arth twhile Newcastle Crew I'm assuming that's from the books, right,

640
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.960
and this talks about more of its like storyline in

641
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:33.800
the books. But I thought it was interesting that this

642
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:37.119
they say that it was a demonic entity that was

643
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:41.280
created by the Provincia, which is the coven, and not

644
00:42:41.400 --> 00:42:43.760
that it was a person that was kidnapped and turned

645
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:46.400
into this thing. Anyway, this continues and says the Invuncha

646
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:50.519
then returns to the Council to the cave where it

647
00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:53.920
attacked John Constantine. Capturing Constantine, it dragged him down into

648
00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:57.239
the darkest depths of the cavern where the Brujos conducted

649
00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:59.599
their rituals on him. And this says that its powers

650
00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:05.079
and ability are superhuman reflexes, superhuman agility, and expert climbing ability,

651
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:08.400
which you would think with how twisted up the body is,

652
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:13.760
that this person has superhuman reflexes, is agile or can climb?

653
00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:15.760
I don't know, I would like that just doesn't make

654
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:18.440
too much, Hey, but it's a comic book, where this

655
00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:20.440
is it's a comic book and we're talking about a

656
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:23.320
fictional character, so like, you know, what sense really does

657
00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:25.599
it need to make? Right? In other media? This says

658
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:29.599
the Invunsha appeared in the Constantine episodes. So in the

659
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:32.719
actual Constantine show, which I need to watch this episode,

660
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:34.119
maybe I can find a clip of it and put

661
00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:36.559
it in here for the video content. It says the

662
00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:39.719
episodes two of them the Saint of Lost Resorts and

663
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:42.559
The Saint of Lost Resorts Part two. So if you

664
00:43:42.599 --> 00:43:45.239
want to look it up, the Invunscha makes an appearance

665
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:48.480
in the Constantine Show. Okay. This next source, this is

666
00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:52.159
one that we used a lot for the actual, uh,

667
00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.000
the Witch Trials of Chilo episode, and this is the

668
00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:58.239
Smithsonian one. This is Into the Cave of Chila's Witches

669
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:02.639
from Smithsonian Magazine by Mike Dash published in twenty thirteen. Also,

670
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:05.960
if you want the direct links to these sources, they

671
00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:08.760
will be in the sousal Google docs on the bonus

672
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:12.360
content on Patreon. So again it's Into the Cave of

673
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:16.000
Chila's Witches from Smithsonian Magazine. Okay. The first mention in

674
00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:19.239
this article, it says it is possible from other records

675
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:22.679
of the Righteous Province or the Erechta Provincia, which again

676
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.679
is the coven that sect of witches to learn more

677
00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:28.760
about the hideous creatures that Guignet god swore he had

678
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:32.679
encountered in eighteen sixty and Guignet God was a witness.

679
00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:35.400
He was someone that said that he and he he

680
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:40.039
bore witness to the Brujos, to their rituals. He saw

681
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:42.719
their cave and he encountered, you know, the creatures that

682
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:45.039
guarded it. There was two that were mentioned here. One

683
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:48.440
of them was known as the Chivato, which is a

684
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:52.239
goat humanoid sort of monster. And then the other, it says,

685
00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:55.280
and by far the most dangerous of the cave's twin

686
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:59.599
denizens was the Invunche or Inbunche. Like the Chivato, it

687
00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:01.840
had one It's been a human baby and had been

688
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:06.079
kidnapped in infancy. Chatwind describes what happened to the baby next.

689
00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:09.039
This was I think something that I read in the episode,

690
00:45:09.079 --> 00:45:11.440
and I gave a warning that this was really intense

691
00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:14.440
because this is about the abuse of a child. So

692
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:16.559
if you don't want to hear this, this talks about

693
00:45:16.599 --> 00:45:19.400
what they do to the body to turn this person

694
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:21.800
into an ivuncea. So if you want to, please will

695
00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:23.599
free to skip ahead, like a minute or two. But

696
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:27.079
this says when the sect needs a new invunce, the

697
00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:29.760
Council of the cave orders a member to steal a

698
00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:33.400
boy child from six months to a year old. The deformer,

699
00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:36.800
a permanent resident of the cave, starts work at once.

700
00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:40.800
So again, the deformer is someone who this is their

701
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:44.679
position in the sect. This is their job here. Their

702
00:45:44.800 --> 00:45:49.159
one role is to deform a person. This says. He

703
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:52.480
disjoints the arms and legs and the hands and feet.

704
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:56.159
Then begins the delicate task of altering the position of

705
00:45:56.199 --> 00:45:59.559
the head, day after day, and for hours at a stretch.

706
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:03.000
Twists the head with a tourniquet until it has rotated

707
00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:06.159
through an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees, that is,

708
00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:08.760
until the child can look straight down the line of

709
00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.440
its own vertebrae. There remains one last operation for which

710
00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:16.239
another specialist is needed. So this is a second person

711
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:19.760
whose role, or one of their roles in this group,

712
00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:24.920
is to inflict this abuse onto again a child. This says.

713
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:27.960
At full moon, the child is laid on a workbench,

714
00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:31.000
lasted down, with its head covered in a bag. The

715
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:34.519
specialist cuts a deep incision under the right shoulder blade

716
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.840
into the hole, he inserts the right arm and sews

717
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.519
up the wound with thread taken from the neck of

718
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:43.280
an eu, which is ewe. It's a type of bird.

719
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:47.840
I believe when it has healed, the Invunscha is complete. Okay,

720
00:46:47.960 --> 00:46:50.280
if you skipped ahead, hopefully that was enough time. We

721
00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:52.440
are going to continue to talk more about through like

722
00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:54.960
some of the mentions here of the Inbunsche. But that

723
00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:58.920
part was just really intense. This continues naked, fed principally

724
00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:03.199
on human flesh and confined below ground. Neither the Chivato

725
00:47:03.400 --> 00:47:07.320
nor the Invunche received any sort of education. Indeed, it

726
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:10.480
was said that neither ever acquired human speech in all

727
00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:13.639
the years they served what Chatlin calls the Committee of

728
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:18.519
the Cave. So there's another, like a nickname for Direta Provincia.

729
00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:21.119
They called them the Committee of the Cave. Nevertheless, he

730
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:24.960
concludes quote over the years does develop a working knowledge

731
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:28.480
of the committee's procedure and can instruct novices with harsh

732
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:31.840
and guttural cries. Again, as we mentioned previously from that

733
00:47:31.880 --> 00:47:35.960
Wiki entry, that because this is still a human being

734
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:38.920
with a brain and the capacity to think and feel,

735
00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:42.159
that they spend so much a time around the Brujos,

736
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:44.559
they do start to learn. And so although they were

737
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:48.440
never taught to speak and in some legends or some

738
00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:51.719
accounts that their tongues are split and they they are

739
00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:54.480
unable to speak, that they can still communicate, like it

740
00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:57.840
says here with harsh and guttural cries. Okay, so there

741
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:00.159
are a few other mentions about the in Vunche, but

742
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:03.000
it doesn't really describe much about them. It describes like

743
00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:05.719
alleged encounters or how like some people were sent to

744
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:09.039
their death by invuncha like basically the Inuncia would kill them.

745
00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:12.119
And then again, according to some legends, they eat human flesh,

746
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:14.280
so they're just sent to their death, right, I think,

747
00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:16.239
and I said this last time when I did the

748
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:19.000
episode about them, was that the way that this article

749
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:21.239
ended kind of freaked me out. Is because this says

750
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:24.119
still several mysteries remained when the verdicts were handed down

751
00:48:24.559 --> 00:48:27.440
the after the witch trials. Had every member of the Maoria,

752
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:31.239
which was the leading council within the Erechta Provincia, had

753
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:34.840
been accounted for. Had the society actually been headquartered in

754
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:37.920
a hidden cave. If so, what happened to its ancient

755
00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:42.400
leather book of spells and what became of the in Vunce. Again,

756
00:48:42.440 --> 00:48:44.920
because allegedly, and according to some of the sources when

757
00:48:44.960 --> 00:48:47.880
we did the Witches a Chilawai episode is that many

758
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:51.000
of these witches they had their their own in Vunce.

759
00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:54.519
And so if this was true and if they, you know,

760
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:57.400
they went to trial, some of them were sent to

761
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:00.599
prison and or like if they were disbanded, like what

762
00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.760
happened to these Inbunche where they just set free in

763
00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:08.440
the wild to Rome where they hidden? Like what happened

764
00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:10.440
to them? Where are they? Where did they go? Where

765
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.079
did you come from? Cotton Eye Joe? Okay, sorry, you

766
00:49:13.079 --> 00:49:26.719
know what, We're gonna take a break on that one.

767
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:31.480
Welcome back, Weld friends. Okay. This next one I thought

768
00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:38.519
was very interesting because people use in Bunche or the

769
00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:42.480
identity of inning Bunche or Inbunche as like a like

770
00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:45.159
a metaphor, so to speak. So this is from the

771
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:48.079
New York Times and this is article I think it's

772
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:52.440
an op ed from February eighteenth, nineteen eighty five. This

773
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:55.039
is titled yeah, it's an opinion piece, and it's titled

774
00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:58.480
a rural Chilean Legend Come True. And this is about

775
00:49:58.519 --> 00:50:01.480
like the politics at the time, which after reading it,

776
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:03.000
I was like, oh, this kind of still applies right,

777
00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:04.559
But I thought it was really interesting that they the

778
00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:06.440
way that they used this, the way that they use

779
00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.840
the identity of anybunche as analogy. So this says. Old

780
00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:13.320
legends are still told in the Chilean countryside. One legend

781
00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:17.320
explains what happens when a child disappears. He has been

782
00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:21.639
kidnapped by witches and his captors to ensure his servitude,

783
00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:25.039
break all his bones, sew together different parts of his body,

784
00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:27.719
and turn his head around so he must always look

785
00:50:27.800 --> 00:50:31.400
and walk backward. His eyes, ears, and mouth are constantly

786
00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:34.719
stitched up. The creature is called a nimbuncee. There is

787
00:50:34.760 --> 00:50:38.559
no way of knowing if General Augusto Pinoche, Chile's strong

788
00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:41.159
man for eleven years, ever heard that tale when he

789
00:50:41.320 --> 00:50:43.400
was young, but there can be no doubt that he

790
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:46.599
has done everything in his power to turn each Chilean

791
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:50.960
and ChIL itself into an embuncee. Chileans do not know,

792
00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:54.679
cannot know if today their voices will be overheard, if

793
00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:57.480
tomorrow their bodies will be fractured. But even if they

794
00:50:57.480 --> 00:50:59.760
are not arrested or beaten up by the police, or

795
00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:02.719
thor thrown out of work, they are in a way already,

796
00:51:02.960 --> 00:51:06.480
like imbunches. They are isolated from each other, their means

797
00:51:06.480 --> 00:51:10.280
of communicating suppressed, their connections cut off, their senses blocked

798
00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:12.800
by fear. The last time I was here in September

799
00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:15.880
nineteen eighty three, on my first brief visit after ten

800
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:18.960
years of exile, I found a different situation. There was

801
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:22.599
hope that things would change soon. The country was openly defiant,

802
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:26.719
demanding General Pinochet's resignation. Everywhere I went, people seemed to

803
00:51:26.760 --> 00:51:29.679
have lost their fear. This was especially true of the

804
00:51:29.719 --> 00:51:33.320
opposition magazines. I was astounded by their audacity. They were

805
00:51:33.440 --> 00:51:38.159
unmasking the regime's corruption, denouncing the violation of human rights,

806
00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:42.280
discussing how to ensure a quick return to democracy. This

807
00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:45.800
cannot last, I said to myself. Either the government goes

808
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:49.360
or it cracks down. This continues to talk more about

809
00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:52.880
the abuses of the government in Chile at the time.

810
00:51:53.119 --> 00:51:56.239
At the end, this finishes up by saying, these journalists

811
00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:59.519
are aware that their situation is precarious. They have been

812
00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:03.880
in set, simply harassed and threatened. Their finances are in shambles.

813
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:06.079
They know that soon they may have to face a

814
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:10.239
military tribunal accused of subversion. And that some will be

815
00:52:10.360 --> 00:52:14.320
banished into internal exile, to the desert, to an island

816
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:17.960
near the South Pole. By refusing to be silenced, the journalists,

817
00:52:18.039 --> 00:52:21.360
their news sources, and their readers are telling Chile's rulers

818
00:52:21.440 --> 00:52:24.239
that some people in my country, who knows how many,

819
00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:29.039
refuse to be turned into imbuncez forever. This was written

820
00:52:29.119 --> 00:52:33.039
by Ariel Dorfmann. This says who returned to Chile for

821
00:52:33.079 --> 00:52:35.639
a two month visit and was a novelist who lived

822
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:42.079
in Bethesda Aerial. Drfman snaps to you, Ariel, Oh, I'm

823
00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.519
trying not to yell in the microphone because oh my god.

824
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:48.800
I was like, this is from It's also really fucked

825
00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:51.079
up that this was from nineteen eighty five in Chile,

826
00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:54.440
and reading through this, I was like, holy shit, this

827
00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:57.920
is America right now. The government is trying to break us,

828
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:00.480
to twist our bodies and sew them back together in

829
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:03.840
a way that leaves us impaired and unable to fight.

830
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:06.559
They want to silence us, so they fork our tongues,

831
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:08.719
they don't allow us to communicate, They keep their foot

832
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:10.800
on our necks. I was like, holy shit, this is

833
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:14.559
such a good analogy for what was happening at that

834
00:53:14.679 --> 00:53:18.599
time in Chile, but also what is happening today in America,

835
00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:21.559
Like people are being censored, there's so much propaganda out there.

836
00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:25.519
The government is literally it's a fascist nation right now,

837
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:28.760
like sorry, not sorry, but it is. It's fucking crazy.

838
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:32.079
The Supreme Court overruled or the Supreme Court ruled in

839
00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:36.440
favor of conversion therapy, like ices out here killing people

840
00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:38.920
in the streets. When I read this, it literally it

841
00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:41.880
blew my mind. And this is why studying history is

842
00:53:41.920 --> 00:53:45.400
so important, because if we do not learn history, we

843
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:48.400
are doomed to repeat our mistakes. So I didn't expect

844
00:53:48.440 --> 00:53:51.480
this to be such like a political story or a

845
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:55.320
political episode even of Suso, but like, we cannot let

846
00:53:55.360 --> 00:53:58.119
the government turn us into embuncha's. We cannot let them

847
00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:04.320
deform our morality and our our personhood, our humanity like ugh, ugh,

848
00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:06.800
this article is just so so I'm like squirming in

849
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:08.920
my seat because it was so good. And y'all know,

850
00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:11.159
I really try not to get on my soapbox because

851
00:54:11.199 --> 00:54:14.639
I can and I will and I do, but not

852
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:16.760
I'm not as high as I have the potential too,

853
00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:18.400
I will just say that much. But I just thought

854
00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:22.239
that piece was so interesting and was like wow, wow, wow, waa,

855
00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:24.960
this is so cool. Okay, This next source is from

856
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:29.800
Vampire Underscore Mythology dot e n academic dot com. This says,

857
00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:34.719
this is from the academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. This is

858
00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:40.079
an entry on the Invuncee from the Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology,

859
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:42.679
which at first I didn't really think of the in

860
00:54:42.760 --> 00:54:45.639
vuncez as like vampires, but I'm like, well, yeah, human

861
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:50.239
flesh makes sense, right, Like vampires typically aren't described as

862
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:53.360
eating human flesh, but they drink human blood, so I

863
00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:56.000
don't know, is it vampire? Is it's not zombie because

864
00:54:56.000 --> 00:54:58.760
they're not dead, right, So like, I think vampire maybe

865
00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:02.320
the closest right Anyway, this says the Invunia. Of all

866
00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:06.159
the vampiric beings, creations, and creatures, the Invunia is perhaps

867
00:55:06.280 --> 00:55:09.559
the most pitable. In Chile, a witch will kidnap a

868
00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:11.880
first or male child while it is an infant and

869
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:14.840
take it back to their cave, a place accessible only

870
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:18.320
through an underground lake entrance. So this is where Jeff

871
00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:20.920
and I saw. Jeff, I'm just seeing this right now. Actually,

872
00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:23.440
I know I read this last time too. But oops,

873
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:27.519
we weren't sure in the story. We're like, is the

874
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:30.519
entrance underwater? Is it in a ravine? I said on

875
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:33.119
the side of a ravine, because I know that you're

876
00:55:33.159 --> 00:55:35.599
not Jeff. But I'm telling you, I'm justifying myself, and

877
00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:37.760
I will tell him right now too. I said ravine

878
00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:41.000
because in the I think in the Smithsonian entry they

879
00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:43.400
talk about the entrance of the cave being in a

880
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:45.480
ravine or in the side of ravine, but this is

881
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:49.000
saying it's an underground lake entrance anyway. Once the baby

882
00:55:49.159 --> 00:55:52.800
is in the bujo's layer, the bujoa first breaks one

883
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:55.199
of its legs and twists it over the baby's back.

884
00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:58.039
The other leg, arms, hands, and feet are broken and

885
00:55:58.119 --> 00:56:01.760
disjointed and twisted into unknown natural positions. A hole is

886
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:04.280
cut under the right I'm sorry, this is the same

887
00:56:04.400 --> 00:56:06.559
should have been the same warning as earlier. Skip ahead

888
00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:08.159
a minute or two because this is going through the

889
00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:10.719
similar description as earlier. A hole is cut under the

890
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:13.360
right shoulder blade, and then the right arm is inserted

891
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:15.199
through it, so that the arm will look as if

892
00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:17.960
it is growing off of the child's back. The baby's

893
00:56:18.000 --> 00:56:21.039
head is gradually bent and shaped over time as well,

894
00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:24.079
so that it will be misshapen really quick. That part

895
00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:25.639
is a little different, So this is saying that the

896
00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:29.039
head is misshapen, whereas other sources are saying that it

897
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.599
is rotated. But this continues. After the procedure is completed.

898
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:35.880
The witch then rubs a magical ointment over the mangled infant,

899
00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:39.400
causing it to grow thick hair all over its body. Finally,

900
00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:41.679
this is the tongue part. Its tongue is cut down

901
00:56:41.719 --> 00:56:45.039
the center so that it resembles a snake's forked tongue.

902
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:48.159
A baby no longer. The Invunce is from then on

903
00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:52.039
fed a diet of human flesh, completing the transformation. This

904
00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:54.320
wraps up. The creature is never able to leave the

905
00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:57.800
witch's layer, as it does not have the physical capability

906
00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:01.559
of swimming due to the imposed deformities of its body.

907
00:57:01.719 --> 00:57:04.760
That's actually that was a good phraser there to describe

908
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:07.800
what I was trying to say earlier, imposed deformities, unless

909
00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:10.559
the witch chooses to use his magic to fly the

910
00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:14.039
Invunha out. Otherwise, its primary duty is to act as

911
00:57:14.079 --> 00:57:17.000
a guardian of the cave, killing all who enter it

912
00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:20.360
unless they know the secret to entering the cave without violence.

913
00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:22.599
This is an interesting detail which I was like, where

914
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:25.320
did this come from? They say kissing it on its ass.

915
00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:28.920
This looks like this is a translation though, like this

916
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:31.559
was not in English at first, So I wonder if

917
00:57:31.559 --> 00:57:35.920
it means literally kissing the Invunce's ass, physically kissing its

918
00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.239
ass and that's the only way to get in or

919
00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:40.920
does it mean like kissing its ass, like being nice

920
00:57:40.960 --> 00:57:44.559
to it, bribing it, brown nosing it, you know what

921
00:57:44.599 --> 00:57:46.440
I mean? Because, like I said, this is and in

922
00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:49.079
Vuncha is still a human being. It's a person. It

923
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:53.360
has thoughts, it has feelings, It can understand human interaction. Right.

924
00:57:53.559 --> 00:57:56.559
I know, it's trained to be aggressive, but that's why

925
00:57:56.559 --> 00:57:58.639
I'm like, does it mean literally kissing its ass or

926
00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:00.440
does it mean like be a kiss to it? I

927
00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:02.920
don't know. This continues. The creature can emit a blood

928
00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:06.039
curtaining scream. This is another detail that was in the story,

929
00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:08.880
a talent it gained in lieu of the ability to speak.

930
00:58:08.960 --> 00:58:13.039
The sound is enough to freeze a man with fear permanently.

931
00:58:13.360 --> 00:58:15.880
The invunce and this is some extra lore about it

932
00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:18.960
has control over a lesser being and this is a

933
00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:23.000
tricky word for me. It says a gehwek gouve. Oh,

934
00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:25.559
I guess it wasn't that tricky, So it has control

935
00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:30.159
over eight quote lesser being the invuncee uses it to

936
00:58:30.320 --> 00:58:33.159
lure young girls to the water, abduct them, and bring

937
00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:35.960
them back so that it can drain them dry of

938
00:58:35.960 --> 00:58:38.920
their blood. That says only a hero can kill a

939
00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:44.440
thread gewk gouve and an invunce. So the invunce uses

940
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:48.440
it commands I guess the thread gewik guve to bring

941
00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.880
people back to it so it can drain their blood.

942
00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:53.079
And that is where the vampire part comes in, which

943
00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:55.679
this is really the only source that I think we

944
00:58:55.880 --> 00:58:59.400
have about an in vuncha drinking blood. I don't think

945
00:58:59.400 --> 00:59:01.880
it really pops up anywhere else. We're going to take

946
00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:18.880
one more quick break welco about girlfriends. The next source

947
00:59:18.920 --> 00:59:21.840
that we have here, this is from looks like a

948
00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:26.960
blog spot that says mythology at Chilawe Chilean Beastiary mythological

949
00:59:27.039 --> 00:59:31.119
Beings by I want to say, Marcelo Lira Sevia and

950
00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:34.199
this says this has a very important detail that I

951
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:37.039
messed up earlier, but I knew it was not literally

952
00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:39.159
what it said so this says the in Vunce is

953
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:42.039
the gatekeeper of the geek Gavi Cave, which is the

954
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:45.920
place where allegedly the erector provincia the righteous province the

955
00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:49.320
sect of witches. That's what their cave was called, the

956
00:59:49.679 --> 00:59:53.079
geek Gavi, which is a qui c a v I cave.

957
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:55.920
It says he is taken to the cave by the witches,

958
00:59:55.960 --> 00:59:58.960
who again kidnap him at birth. From infancy, he is

959
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:03.360
fed the milk a black cat. Here in parentheses this

960
01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:06.239
says it was not a goat. I don't know. Well,

961
01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:07.920
I know where I got goat from is because it

962
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:10.559
includes it. But this says he has fed the milk

963
01:00:10.599 --> 01:00:13.079
of a black cat. And in parentheses it says an

964
01:00:13.079 --> 01:00:17.360
indigenous woman who practices witchcraft, which I had never heard

965
01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:21.039
in all my seven years of doing Susto and the

966
01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:24.440
hundreds of stories or over one hundred stories, which also,

967
01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:26.559
by the way, we did one hundred episodes, and we

968
01:00:26.679 --> 01:00:29.519
never like addressed that. Sorry, we'll do it at two

969
01:00:29.639 --> 01:00:33.320
hundred and my bad. But this says, yeah, I've never

970
01:00:33.360 --> 01:00:36.920
come across this idea that an indigenous woman who practices

971
01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:40.119
witchcraft is known as a black cat. And you know

972
01:00:40.159 --> 01:00:42.840
what I'm going to see if this brings up anything.

973
01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:46.719
I don't see anything on Google about this about indigenous

974
01:00:46.760 --> 01:00:50.559
women who practice witchcraft being known as black cats. There's

975
01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:54.039
of course the association of black cats as familiars, but

976
01:00:54.280 --> 01:00:55.840
I don't know. I think I'm gonna have to do

977
01:00:55.880 --> 01:00:58.119
like a much deeper dive on this. But I just

978
01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:00.880
I thought that was very interesting. Okay. This continues and

979
01:01:01.079 --> 01:01:04.360
goat meat. That's where I got the goat idea from. Later,

980
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:07.440
as an adult, he has fed human flesh stolen from cemeteries. Again,

981
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.320
his body begins to atrophy at a young age. And

982
01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:15.480
then this talks about the again imposed deformation of the invunce.

983
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:17.159
But I wanted to read this one because I thought

984
01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:19.800
that black cat detail was it just stuck out to

985
01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:22.119
me for some reason. Again, I had never heard of

986
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:25.079
that reference. Okay, and this continues. It says if a

987
01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:30.159
quote Lempiole or a person unconnected to witchcraft accidentally sees him,

988
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:34.039
they are forever transformed into an endless sado, which is

989
01:01:34.119 --> 01:01:37.199
someone who is bewitched, losing their mind in reason, so

990
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:40.800
it drives them mad allegedly. And this continues if for

991
01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:44.320
any reason, death from the plague were to occur. It

992
01:01:44.440 --> 01:01:47.360
was believed that the invunia had been beaten at night

993
01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:50.599
or that someone had unleashed a pack of wild dogs

994
01:01:50.599 --> 01:01:54.559
on him, but they failed to kill him. So that's interesting. Again,

995
01:01:54.719 --> 01:01:57.639
maybe there's some sort of like magical property to the invunia.

996
01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:01.079
Maybe it is bestowed on them by the witches as

997
01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:03.639
a form of protection, because they're like, this is my invunch.

998
01:02:03.880 --> 01:02:06.199
I need them for whatever reason, because again they may

999
01:02:06.239 --> 01:02:07.960
act as a familiar, so it could be like a

1000
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:10.599
protection spell, like if something bad happens to this, whoever

1001
01:02:10.639 --> 01:02:12.599
did it to them is going to get sick or

1002
01:02:13.519 --> 01:02:16.280
or something, you know. This also continues. His revenge then

1003
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:19.679
was to unleash a plague and wipe out the entire

1004
01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:24.000
nearby community. Yeah, this says continues that only his quote

1005
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:27.039
masters were allowed to look upon the inbunche, and it

1006
01:02:27.079 --> 01:02:29.840
was said that the flesh of this creature cured any disease,

1007
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:32.519
which is why the sorcerers fought over or divided the

1008
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:35.800
body of a nyvunche after its death. That's another very

1009
01:02:35.800 --> 01:02:38.760
interesting detail to me, that it's flush. Maybe they would

1010
01:02:38.800 --> 01:02:41.239
make like tinctures or oils or something out of the

1011
01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:44.159
flesh of any Munche when it died, and then now

1012
01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:46.800
that the witches we're fighting over its body to use it.

1013
01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:50.760
This next source that we have here is from Chiloe

1014
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:54.239
Mio Loico dot col and this says that this is

1015
01:02:54.280 --> 01:02:59.400
from a book by doctor Bernardo Guintana Mancilla. It's called

1016
01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:02.719
Mythologic called Chiloe. And there is this like a table

1017
01:03:02.719 --> 01:03:05.519
of contents here. I'm gonna maybe read this whole book

1018
01:03:05.519 --> 01:03:08.559
because it sounds cold. But there's the biography of doctor Bernardo.

1019
01:03:08.599 --> 01:03:13.119
There's the origin of the Chiloe Archipelago, the myths of Chiloe,

1020
01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:16.480
and then there's a section about witchcraft and its characters.

1021
01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:20.199
And in this list, I'm seeing some Sousto episodes for

1022
01:03:20.239 --> 01:03:24.119
the future. It says the Sorcerer, the flying One, the Invunce,

1023
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:29.840
the Seahorse, the the gu the Mandao will go or

1024
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:36.079
Ducion or Dugon sorry, the again, the dne the Pyramids.

1025
01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:38.800
And then it says online book and mini book for

1026
01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:41.760
school children. Of course, I need to download this whole

1027
01:03:41.760 --> 01:03:43.920
thing and turn it into a paperback so I can

1028
01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:46.119
read it if it's available online anyway. So this talks

1029
01:03:46.119 --> 01:03:48.360
about the Invuncha and it says the word in Vunche

1030
01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:52.840
comes from Velice, the language of the primitive inhabitants of Chiloe.

1031
01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:54.719
I'm not sure I like that word. I'm gonna be honest,

1032
01:03:54.920 --> 01:03:59.320
primitive inhabitants. I'm thinking maybe they mean the indigenous people

1033
01:03:59.400 --> 01:04:03.440
of Chiloe. But this continues from eyvun being small and

1034
01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:07.679
che being man, that is, small man, I vuncee small man.

1035
01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:10.960
This continues to obtain any vunche and this again goes

1036
01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:13.920
through the whole process. That they would kidnap the firstborn,

1037
01:04:14.280 --> 01:04:20.000
they would impose the deformities. If the child was baptized,

1038
01:04:20.159 --> 01:04:24.320
they would debaptize them. This talks about the split tongue

1039
01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:29.480
and the either reshaping or the twisting of the head.

1040
01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:33.599
That says how they feed him human flesh quote black

1041
01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:37.280
cat milk and goat meat as well. Then this continues.

1042
01:04:37.320 --> 01:04:39.880
After explaining all that again he retains only a certain

1043
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:44.960
understanding of humanity necessary to recognize sorcerers. His role consists

1044
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:47.360
again of guarding the entrance of the cave, which we

1045
01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:50.599
know is the Gigavi Cave where witchcraft takes place. He's

1046
01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:53.159
the guardian of the temple who will only grant entry

1047
01:04:53.199 --> 01:04:56.039
to those who fulfill the password at a specific nearby

1048
01:04:56.119 --> 01:05:00.280
tree and finally bowed deeply before him, et cetera, going

1049
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:02.760
back to kissing his ass. Maybe it did mean the

1050
01:05:02.800 --> 01:05:05.719
figurative kiss his ass, like you have to bow deeply

1051
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:07.960
to him to show respect to kiss his ass right

1052
01:05:08.039 --> 01:05:11.320
to gain entry or access to the cave, This says.

1053
01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:14.039
Having completed his mission, he seals the cave entrance with

1054
01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:16.760
a large stone and devotes himself to his soul pleasure

1055
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:21.719
eating human flesh. Sometimes sorcerers mistakenly steal the firstborn son

1056
01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:25.199
from a sorcerer's home. In such cases, they return him

1057
01:05:25.239 --> 01:05:27.400
to his own home, but they can no longer repair

1058
01:05:27.440 --> 01:05:30.159
the deformities of his broken leg. So I guess there

1059
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.320
is honor amongst thieves. Right. Thus the unfortunate boy and

1060
01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:36.119
later man must walk like a three legged animal for

1061
01:05:36.159 --> 01:05:38.679
the rest of his life. So this tom makes it

1062
01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:42.800
seem like they abduct the child, they impose the deformities,

1063
01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:46.079
and then they realize, oops, this is actually someone's kid

1064
01:05:46.119 --> 01:05:49.400
who I respect and took them back. But they're like, sorry,

1065
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:51.519
look what I did. I don't know. It continues. On

1066
01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:54.599
rare occasions, some improvement is achieved by rubbing it with

1067
01:05:54.679 --> 01:05:57.000
the fat of a black dog. I'm not sure exactly

1068
01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:59.480
what that is referencing. I think it's just a type

1069
01:05:59.519 --> 01:06:02.679
of ritual. Maybe this says Some inhabitants of the picturesque

1070
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:06.400
town of Chuanchi, claim that a humble resident of that town,

1071
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:09.960
nicknamed Juan de Soul, was kidnapped as a child by

1072
01:06:10.039 --> 01:06:13.440
sorcerers to transform it into an invunce. They only managed

1073
01:06:13.480 --> 01:06:15.920
to break and twist his right leg. Upon learning that

1074
01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:18.599
he was the son of a sorcerer, they immediately returned

1075
01:06:18.679 --> 01:06:21.559
him to his home, although with the deformities he still

1076
01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:25.480
bears today right exactly. The invunce or this says, Machuko

1077
01:06:25.519 --> 01:06:27.719
de la Cueva, as it is also known, has a

1078
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:31.559
short lifespan, aging prematurely. Well, yeah, I would assume that

1079
01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:34.239
that is a ton of trauma on the body that

1080
01:06:34.320 --> 01:06:37.480
would cause them to age prematurely. Of obviously, this continues.

1081
01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:41.039
When it reaches this age, the sorcerers ruthlessly sacrifice it,

1082
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:44.360
charring its flesh like any other animal, and distributing it

1083
01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:48.559
among their favored machis or shamans. With this chatki, they

1084
01:06:48.599 --> 01:06:52.280
prepare a famous what does it say, panacea, envied by

1085
01:06:52.320 --> 01:06:55.599
doctors worldwide. I need to look this word up panacea.

1086
01:06:56.079 --> 01:07:00.639
A panacea is a mythical hypothetical cure, all right, remedy

1087
01:07:00.760 --> 01:07:04.679
designed to solve all diseases or difficulties. So, like we

1088
01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:07.800
said earlier, they fight over the body after it dies,

1089
01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:10.639
but apparently when it reaches its like its limit, they

1090
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:15.159
just sacrifice it and they make a remedy from its body.

1091
01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:17.960
This says according to the falling procedure, a piece of

1092
01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.199
the chotkey is taken and toasted in a guyana, which

1093
01:07:21.199 --> 01:07:24.440
is a type of clay pot, until charred. Once carbonized,

1094
01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:27.440
it is ground into a fine powder in a teak mortar.

1095
01:07:27.639 --> 01:07:31.840
The ashes are sifted through a sieve made of ninomotol,

1096
01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:34.960
which is a type of bird's hair, and finally it

1097
01:07:35.039 --> 01:07:39.280
is boiled in water from the thriguienne, which is another

1098
01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:42.159
type of bird. God, it's like a long recipe during

1099
01:07:42.280 --> 01:07:45.000
a quote laugh of the teak, a type of bird.

1100
01:07:45.079 --> 01:07:48.239
The fortunate patients who take the dose of this marvelous

1101
01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:50.599
medicine are cured of all their ailments and will only

1102
01:07:50.719 --> 01:07:53.599
die of old age. Okay, I probably made that more difficult.

1103
01:07:53.639 --> 01:07:56.000
There was lots of parentheses in one sentence. I'm just

1104
01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:58.519
gonna say that much about this, But essentially there is

1105
01:07:58.559 --> 01:08:01.599
a process by which they can use the charred body

1106
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:06.320
of this sacrifice to invuncea to make this medicine. It's

1107
01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:10.000
a cure all whoever takes it. Essentially doesn't become immortal,

1108
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:12.400
but they will never get sick, and they will die

1109
01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:15.000
of old age. Right does then continues. The fat of

1110
01:08:15.039 --> 01:08:18.399
the invuncha tree is another highly prized ingredient for the

1111
01:08:18.439 --> 01:08:21.600
machis or the mapucha healers. They use it to prepare

1112
01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:25.680
ointments that alleviate rheumatism and soothe all kinds of pain,

1113
01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:29.479
proving especially useful during procedures to set broken bones. Some

1114
01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:32.159
highly skilled machis also use this fat to make a

1115
01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:35.760
very fine cream scented with extracts of potato, alcohol and

1116
01:08:35.760 --> 01:08:39.520
special herbs. This cream has the remarkable ability to beautifully

1117
01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:43.000
aid in particular, rejuvenate the face and in general the

1118
01:08:43.159 --> 01:08:46.520
entire female complexion. Because that's what it's all about, right,

1119
01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:50.960
how can we make women more beautiful to men? Anyway? Sorry,

1120
01:08:51.119 --> 01:08:54.039
this finishes up here. The invuncha jealous guardian of the

1121
01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:57.800
entrance to the witch's cave, may represent that intellectually inferior

1122
01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:01.479
human element, but which in its servitude favors the development

1123
01:09:01.600 --> 01:09:04.479
of the activities of the superior groups of men. Now,

1124
01:09:04.520 --> 01:09:07.520
that is interesting. This is very like you know what,

1125
01:09:07.560 --> 01:09:09.840
this kind of like. I'm just gonna say, this gives

1126
01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:12.840
me the type of and I'll speak to my own

1127
01:09:12.840 --> 01:09:17.239
communities or communities, the type of queer people and the

1128
01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:20.960
type of I will say, Mexicans that I have seen,

1129
01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:24.039
like from my hometown, my home community, and not just

1130
01:09:24.079 --> 01:09:26.399
my town, but the whole area. The type of people

1131
01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:31.159
that are so desperate to assimilate and align themselves with

1132
01:09:31.319 --> 01:09:34.479
their oppressor's values, hoping that one day they'll get a

1133
01:09:34.520 --> 01:09:36.520
seat at the table and they'll they'll get a pat

1134
01:09:36.520 --> 01:09:39.319
on the head for being good. But they will never

1135
01:09:39.359 --> 01:09:41.920
gain that respect. And I wish more people understood that.

1136
01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:44.199
Don't be the inmbunchha. Don't be the familiar to your

1137
01:09:44.239 --> 01:09:48.079
oppressor and give them what they want, right because they

1138
01:09:48.159 --> 01:09:51.079
deem you inferior. You are not actually inferior. They just

1139
01:09:51.079 --> 01:09:53.479
deem you that way. Okay, Like what did I say,

1140
01:09:53.479 --> 01:09:56.119
soap box me, I can't resist it anyway. This finishes

1141
01:09:56.159 --> 01:09:58.720
off here. His body deformed by the sorcerers may point

1142
01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:01.359
to an attempt to explain and those physical deformities that

1143
01:10:01.399 --> 01:10:05.279
are observed relatively frequently in individuals who are also attributed

1144
01:10:05.319 --> 01:10:08.800
with magical powers. Reverence as a prelude to entering the

1145
01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:12.319
cave perhaps teaches us the humility that the individual should

1146
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:15.319
always have towards all his fellow human beings, even knowing

1147
01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:18.520
himself to be superior to them all. Which again, really,

1148
01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:21.359
if that's if that's, if that's if that's the lesson

1149
01:10:21.439 --> 01:10:25.920
here is to like it says here to remain humble, right,

1150
01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:29.520
It teaches us humility that you should always have towards

1151
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:32.399
your fellow human beings. I think it should have ended there.

1152
01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:36.399
And the addition of even knowing himself to be superior

1153
01:10:36.479 --> 01:10:38.960
to them, like, well, then you're missing the point. Then.

1154
01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:42.560
If you're humble and you see the humanity, the humility

1155
01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:45.319
in the people around you, then you wouldn't think I'm

1156
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:47.800
doing this even though I know I'm better than you. Girl,

1157
01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:50.880
What that's that's a crazy thing to say, I think. Anyway,

1158
01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:53.880
that was the last source. We do have another link here.

1159
01:10:54.039 --> 01:10:58.359
This is about the Constantine TV series and the episodes

1160
01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:01.800
that the Inguinchek comes out in, and it's in episodes

1161
01:11:01.920 --> 01:11:05.840
eight and nine, and I'll just read really quick. I'll

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just rattle off what they say. Again. It was the

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same to Last Resorts Part one and two. These aired

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on December twelve, twenty fourteen, and January sixteen, twenty fifteen.

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And this talks about basically the plot of these two episodes.

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So I won't read it because it's very text heavy,

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but I would say that you all should watch it

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and let me know what you think. I'm going to

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watch this for sure. Maybe I'll do like a live

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reaction to them or something in a video or a

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stream of some sorts, because yeah, it's it's always really

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cool to see how some of these stories are represented

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in pop culture and media. But yeah, that was that

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was it for the Sources. Thanks welcome back, well friends,

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thank you so much for listening to today's episode, and

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again for seven magical, spectacular years. Here's too. I don't

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know how many more years, however many more I got

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in me, but I'm gonna keep them going because, like

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I said earlier, Sustal means so much to me, the

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community that we have built around Sustal, with you listening,

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you like, interacting with the show, coming out to events,

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sending your everything, everything, everything is just so much to

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talk about, but it is so truly truly special to me.

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So thank you all for seven years. I'm so honored.

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I'm so excited to keep going, like I said, to

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the next evolution of the show, whatever that may be.

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Like I mentioned earlier, please consider joining us for the

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book club. If not this month, then next month. Just

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so much for your support. It truly really does mean

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the entire world to me, the universe and I will

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talk to you in the next one and until then

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bye St