Aug. 29, 2024

Luisón (Luisõ, Lobisón, Lobisomem)

Luisón (Luisõ, Lobisón, Lobisomem)

🎶There's a she-wolf in the closet!🎵 In this episode, Ayden shares a Susto Original based on the legend of Luisón, a creature from Guarani mythology in Paraguay.

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🎶There's a she-wolf in the closet!🎵 In this episode, Ayden shares a Susto Original based on the legend of Luisón, a creature from Guarani mythology in Paraguay.

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Hey, girlfriends, it's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way, I

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instill your host and you are still listening to Sustal,

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the podcast of ookie Spooky Scary Story centered on paranormal

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folklore from Latin American and Hispanic cultures. Ghol friends, welcome back.

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Thank you so much for joining me once again. And

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if you are new here, welcome to the Sustal fam.

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Thank you for being here. No, you're not You're not

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that late. Don't even worry about it. I do have

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two quick updates, but before that, just some like personal

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fun stuff. I just got back from New Orleans. Yeah,

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the day before yesterday, I don't know. I was in

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New Orleans for a couple of days. If you've been

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here for a while, you know that I've been before.

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And I absolutely love that city. It's so beautiful, the

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food is so good. And I got to reunite with

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some of my best school friends who the three of

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us had not been in the same room together in

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like fifteen years. So it was such a beautiful healing weekend.

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It was much needed for my spirit, my mental health,

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and it was just generally so much fun. So I

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didn't really do much of like content creation and I

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know some people might think that's like a huge miss

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because it's one of the like spooky capitals of the world.

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But you know what, that's okay because September next year

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I'm going to be back there. Hopefully before but for

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sure September next year, I'll be back there with Beyond

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the Veil Festival, with of course one of our nearest

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and dearest school friends, Lady Hobbes. And there's of course

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stuff about that on my social media pages at social podcast,

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but also you can visit Beyond the Veilfest dot com.

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And speaking of things, I will be at next week

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September first and second, I will be appearing at the

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twenty twenty four anam Con. This is a free virtual event,

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so if you want to learn more beforehand or if

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you want to attend, just visit an dot com that's

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a N O M A C O N dot com.

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It's going to be so fun. Again, I've posted about

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it on my social media pages, but there is a

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huge lineup with some really really cool people, including yours. Truly,

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I believe there's going to be musicians, there will be speakers,

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and it's all virtual, so again you will be watching

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everything in video and then afterward the from what I understand,

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the entire thing will live on YouTube. And this is

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being produced by the podcast somewhere in the skuys, so

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if you haven't checked it out, please make sure to

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go listen to them. There are a few other things.

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Of course, we are getting closer to the thick of

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spooky season. As you know, that's when I get more busy.

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on the show and where I will be and what

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I will be doing and who I will be haunting

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and possessing. But that is about it for now. One

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more thing I want to talk about before we jump

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you all for your support, thank you for your patients,

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and we're gonna go ahead and continue with today's episode.

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Today I will be telling another sustol original. I wrote

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this story myself, and this is a story based on

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the legend of Luis on Carlos scanned through radio stations

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on his walkman trying to find something to relax to

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after a long work week. Friday nights met video games,

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a good horror movie, and best of all, sleeping in

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Saturday morning. He stops when I News broadcast caught his attention.

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Investigations are still underway while officials attempt to identify the

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person responsible for desecrating the final resting places of many

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individuals in the re Lookeeta Cemetery. Both affected and unaffected

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families have been mounting pressure on local authorities and elected

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officials to increase security and apprehend the person responsible before

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they strike again. The Badaway National Police are urging residents

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of Austincion to remain vigilant around cemetery roads and have

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imposed a curfew that will prevent visitation to all cemeteries

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in the capitol after sundown until the desecrator has been stopped.

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Next on kssto an alarming influx of pedestrian attacks. Several

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people have been found dead and disfigured, leaving authorities to

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question whether the city is facing a violent individual or

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an animal of some sort. More on this at ten Fearmongers,

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Carlos rolled his eyes and switched stations once more. He

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had been working two jobs for at least a year

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now to save up for his own place. He kept

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saturdays open to catch up on his school work and

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to look for apartments. Growing up in foster care had

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been rough for him. He wasn't sure if it would

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have made things easier if he knew more about his

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family or not. The only thing he knew was that

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he had many siblings that, for some mysterious reason, seven

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was one too many kids for his birth parents. He

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had been taken to the agency directly from the hospital. Now,

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at almost eighteen, he would have to figure out his

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next steps without the help or guidance of the two

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people he should have been able to count on the most.

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It wasn't all bad, he'd remind himself. The foster house

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he grew up in was a small all boys home.

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Since it was funded by an endowment from the President,

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there was plenty to go around, including a private bedroom

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for the boys in their final year. His safe haven,

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the one place he could drop his shoulders and relax.

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At the end of each.

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Day, as Carlos walked, he could feel the stress of

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the day melting away. He took a deep breath in

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and choked on something acrid. It smelt like an abandoned

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butcher's shop. The stench of rotting, fermenting flesh filled the

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air around him and entered his lungs. He gagged and

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wretched as he stumbled forward, trying to escape the thick,

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sour cloud. What is this bach? He shouted a few

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more feet and he could finally breathe again, inhaling small

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and short breaths at first, to be sure it wasn't

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more of the bitter air he just encountered. However, his

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vision had gone blurry, and he stumbled like a newborn

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taking their first steps. Carlos tried to calm himself down

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and make it home. He was only a few blocks away.

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He knew he was close. When he had to walk

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by the cemetery, he felt sick and confused. He blinked hard,

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and now he felt scared. He heard a crack near by,

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the sound of a branch snapping hello. He was met

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with silence for a brief moment, then another snap. Something

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was moving. He looked around and spun in place while

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the noise grew louder. Finally he realized it was coming

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from inside the cemetery gates. His vision was a little

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more clear now but still hazy. He rubbed his eyes

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and squinted into the gates. Hey, listen, you're not supposed

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to be in there. The police are monitoring the cemetery.

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Some freak. As Carlos's thought dropped the moment he could

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make out who or what he was talking to, A slender,

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A naturally tall thing rose in the dark like a

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dog on its hind legs. Carlos's heart pounded through his chest.

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It made his head shake with each thump. He and

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this creature stared at each other, and like they were

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in sync, ran without thinking and now in survival mode,

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Carlos bolted down the sidewalk. He could hear the monster

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get over the cemetery gate and snarl behind him. His

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backpack was weighing him down, so he let it slide

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off his arms, sending his walkman clattering to the ground.

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He could feel whatever was chasing him gaining on him,

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and he knew it was only a matter of seconds

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before he would have to fight it off himself. He

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remembered his box cutter from work, moving as fast as

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he could and trying to not drop his only form

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of protection. He reached in his pocket and slip it out,

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thumbing the blade out of its casing. He felt something

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hit his shoulder and knock him off balance. He hit

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the ground hard and slid. His shoulder stung, and as

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he grabbed it, there were holes in his shirt. His

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hand was warm and slick. This thing had claws, and

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it slashed him. Before he could think about the pain

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that began radiating from his shoulder, the dog beast was

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on him, looking him dead in the eyes. It bore

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its teeth and lunged down, mouth open, ready to tear

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into Carlos's face. He threw his hands up and gripped

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the animal's snout and jaw, one hand holding the top

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half and the other the bottom. Thirsty for Carlos's blood,

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it drooled goofy saliva that sparkled on the full moon's light.

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Carlos looked around for the box cutter. He dropped it

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when he fell, and it sat just out of his reach.

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He tried to use his legs to move himself closer,

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but was pinned under the weight of the creature. It

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pushed down on him. Its top row of teeth pierced

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Carlos's palm, and he let out a scream. He wasn't

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sure where it came from, but a sensation of anger

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overcame Carlos. He was so close to starting his life.

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He wasn't sure what that life would look like, if

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he'd be happy, but he knew it was his life

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and he was going to fight tooth and nail to

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live it. He let his shoulders sink into the ground.

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He kept his arms outstretched and used the weight of

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the creature to part its mouth wider in one swift motion.

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Still gripping the top and bottom of its mouth in

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his hands, he shot one hand down and one up.

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He broke the creature's jaw. It yelped and went slack.

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Carlos's vision started going dark. The pain and the adrenaline

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crash were setting in, and he passed out. Carlos spent

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days in the hospital recovering from what the police called

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a random, violent attack by a madman. That same man

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they identified as the cemetery desecrator. But this confused Carlos.

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He wasn't attacked by a man. He tried explaining the

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creature to them, a humanoid dog beast. The police and

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the doctors assured Carlos that it was a man that

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in response to the traumatic attack, his mind made the

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man an actual monster. A few weeks past, Carlos finally

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started taking night shifts again and felt okay walking alone.

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He was excited for his birthday. He already filed his

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discharge papers with the Foster Home and had an apartment

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picked out. He took a deep breath and looked up

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at the night sky. It was a beautiful night, no

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clouds and a clear view of the full moon. As

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its light poured over him, he felt uneasy. It wasn't fear, though,

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it was hunger. Welcome back to old friends again. Another

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custole original. I hope you enjoyed that one. I'm having

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fun actually writing. I think I'm going to give it

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a shot each time if I can. But you will know,

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because I'll let you know if it is or isn't

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a sustal original. But again, today's was, so I hope

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you enjoyed it again. If there are any writers out there,

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any storytellers, please feel free to reach out let me know,

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or if you just liked it, please give me some encouragement.

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I do want a golden star. I do want a ribbon,

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a participation in trophy. So there are a few links

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that I wanted to go through here today. Also, I

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will say, and I'm gonna I need to start putting

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like a little kind of credit reel at the end

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of the episodes. This episode and the last episode. Y'all

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may know him, You may have heard of him, may

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have even met him. My unpaid intern, part time assistant,

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full time lover, Jeffrey helped me with these episodes. He

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helped me by doing some research and by editing some

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of the writings. So my research assistant slash story editor,

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Jeffrey Doyle, thank you so much. I love you for

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helping me with today's story. So he puts some notes

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here before we go through the Lynx. The first note

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is that there are two Louis Soans basically, So what

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that means is that there is the original one, which

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is the god of death from Guarani mythology, and we're

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going to go through that right now. And then the

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second one is the current day cryptid, influenced by that myth,

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by the Guarani mythology and by the werewolf from Europe.

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And I'm sure you probably saw that kind of I

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would hope that came across like, oh, this is a werewolf. Basically,

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we're going to probably see some of this before and again.

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You can see these notes and the links and the

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outline and the story in the Sustal Google docs if

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you have access to that. On Patreon dot com slash

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Sustal podcast. Jeff wrote here the character is originally from

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Guarani mythology. The Guarani are the indigenous people of Badawei

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who had fully developed culture and mythology systems. In their mythology,

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the Louis San is the seventh child of the evil

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god Thau and the human woman. It's not one hundred

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percent short about whether they were married and willingly had children,

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or if Thou kidnapped Gerena and abused her and forced

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her to have children. This is due to the fact

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that this legend was passed down by word of mouth

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because the Guardani did not use a writing system to

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preserve their stories, so there are variations either way. Their

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children were cursed by Arasi, the goddess of the sky,

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to be monsters. The seventh child they had was named Luisan.

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He was born as a giant evil dog and given

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the role of the god of death. The Guardani believed

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that if you saw the Luisan, you were doomed to die.

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It would then eat your corpse. The myth evolved as

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European culture influence spread in South America, and the Luisan

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slowly combined with the werewolf myth. In its current form,

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the legend of a Louisan is that the curse has

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spread beyond the original Luisan and continues to this day

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to impact the seventh son in a family. On the

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night of his thirteenth birthday, the so seventh son will

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transform into a Luisan and will seek out dead bodies

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to feed on like a werewolf. The transformation would happen

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every full moon, and the cursed Sun would seek out

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either corpses, excrement, unbaptized babies, or innocence to eat. There

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isn't consistency in what it eats, likely since it has

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become an amalgamation of various myths. It is still believed

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that a luisan, seen as a large black dog or werewolf,

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is an omen of death. If it gets close enough

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to you, it will emit a horrible smell to try

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to drive you insane so that it can hunt you.

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If it catches you, it will eat both your body

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and soul. Leaving the soul cursed to never reach heaven.

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If it only bites, slash, scratches you and you get away,

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you could now be cursed to become a Luisan. Families

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are now terrified of having a seventh son, and this

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is disputed, would kill their seventh son to prevent the

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curse from impacting their family. One loophole was that if

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the seventh son was adopted to another family, he would

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be saved. The folk tale from Badaway was that the

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president would unofficially adopt every seventh son in order to

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save the country from this curse. This was done to

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prevent any harm coming to the seventh son in a family,

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and the practice was eventually extended to seventh daughters as

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well in nineteen seventy three. There is some slight truth

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to this, because again that's just kind of myth or

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like local legend. So it says there is some slight

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truth to this, and that the president functioned as a

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godparent to the kids, but this was just a custom

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and not a law. The Louisan myth has spread to

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nearby countries and will also be known as the Lobison

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in Argentina and Lobison mim in Brazil, and I know

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in some languages it's Lobison or Louison with the squiggly

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line accident over the Oh, you'll see it in the title.

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So amazing notes on the story right there. Let's go

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into the links that we have here. We have a few.

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So the first one it's just a good old Wikipedia entry.

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This one's a short one. This says the Louison or

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Louis sol again with the accent over the o. In Guarani,

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Luison or Lobison in Spanish is one of seven legendary

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beasts of Badague and is the seventh and last son

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of Thao and Gharana. The myth says that in a

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family with seven male children, the last child will become Luisson.

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And this is where it kind of gets, I think,

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a little muddy to me or confusing, is what exactly

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are the rules?

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I think.

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I spoke about this with Stephanie and on Getting Strange

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with Stephanie Strange on her show. There's so many rules

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for these spirits and demons, you know, for demons, which

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are these entities of chaos and whatever or monsters, they

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sure do follow a lot of rules. But so here

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it says a family with seven male children, and then

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in other instances it's a family and if the seventh

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child is a boy, and then in suddenly in seventy

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three it was open to it could just be the

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seventh child regardless of gender. I'm not sure what exactly

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the rule is there, but something with the seventh child.

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Speaking of these kids, I want to know who each

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of their children are. Okay, here it is the seven

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children in order of birth. This is again another Wikipedia entry.

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It says the seven children were in order of birth.

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I actually I.

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Want to know how to say these, right, So okay,

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So the first one is deju Jagua, a half lizard

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half dog creature considered lord of caverns. The second one

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is boiitu E, a giant snake with the head of

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a parrot. The third one, and I'm going based on

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pronunciations from what I'm finding online, is mon Yi, a

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giant horned snake said to be the lord and protector

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of the fields. Number four is jasi Ja Tere, lord

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of the CSA. Number five is Kurupi, god of sexuality.

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Number six is au Wau, who appeared as perhaps a

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monstrous sheep or pecory and number seven is Luisan, of course,

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a dog like human aka the lord of Death. Shout

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out to this website. It popped up several times for

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many of these and actually had it says it's the

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Guadani pronunciation. It's four vote dot com where I put

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in all of these names to try and to them correct.

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So to continue. The next link that we have is

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from the wiki fandom of Luis San and this may

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cover some of the stuff that was in the show notes.

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It says that Luisan, Luiso or Lobyson is the name

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of a monstrous creature from Guardani mythology, being one of

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the seven cursed children of course of Tauan Kirana. One

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of the primary figures of legend in Guardani speaking cultures today,

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such as Badaway of the original myth of the Guadani people,

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the Luisan is one of the few whose story has

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changed significantly in modern times. The name of Luisan is

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a variation of Lobison, a name used in Arichantina and

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Uruway to describe the werewolf or a similar creature, which

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is itself a variation of the Brazilian name for the werewolf,

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the lobison men more literally wolfman what named Luisan may

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have had prior to the influence of European based mythology

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is likely lost to the world. Wharani was not a

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written language, and all myths passed on in storytelling only. Thus,

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no written record of his original name would have been made,

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so unfortunately, I wish we had that. I wish we

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knew what it was. But Louisan is the I guess, the

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earliest or the closest to its original name, and I

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don't want to not maybe not closest in terms of

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what it sounds like, what it was spelled like, what

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the word is, but just it came right after the

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original name of what of Louisan, which you can tell

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also by listening and looking through the names of Louisan's

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six other monstrous siblings. His name is pretty different compared

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to theirs. This continues. Luisan was said to be the

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lord of the night and was associated with death. His

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habitat was limited exclusively to cemeteries, burial grounds, or other

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locations similarly tied in with the concept of death, and

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his sole source of food was dead and rotting flesh.

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Lord of death, he hung around places where death was prominent,

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so of course cemeteries. I wonder if anyone seeing him

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in the funeral home or hospitals, or you know, places

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where death happens more often than other areas. This continues

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in some version Louisan only appears on Monday, Wednesday and

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Friday night, okay, hybrid schedule. Luisan also filled the same

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function as the grim reaper in many European societies, and

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it was said that the touch of his cold clammy

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hand was a sure sign that one's days on the

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earth were numbered. With the arrival of European settlers aka

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colonizers in the area, came myths and legends not indigenous

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to the Guadani people. Over the time, the myth of

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Luisan slowly began to mix with the imported legend of

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the werewolf, to the point where Louisan began to lose

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many of his associations with death. In many areas of

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the Guadanese speaking world, the Louissan's description has changed to

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that of a half man, half dog creature and now

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bears many similarities to the classical werewolf story. So definitely

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the story that I wrote was leaning more towards the

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modern interpretation or understanding of the Louisan modern tales of

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the Louisan that hunts by the light of the moon

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is no longer confined to cemeteries and may hunt living

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victims down for food. It is sometimes also believed that

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the curse of the Luisan may be transferred to other

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victims via biding, such as the curse of the werewolf.

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So again in the story, Gorlos gets scratched and also

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technically bitten because as he's holding the Luisan's mouth open

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with part of his palm, his teeth pierced his palm right,

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So I guess that's technically a bite. This continues in

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part the transition from the original myth to a more

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werewolf like creature is because Luisan was a seventh son.

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The seventh son, especially in Badahweh, was thought to be

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cursed or to become a werewolf. And again that's where

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I made that connection to writing the story. Is that

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Carlos's parents thought that seven children was one too many,

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and so he was given up for adoption because again

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the belief was that if the seventh child or the

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child thought to be affected by the curse was adopted,

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that it would save them from the curse. So moving

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on about the appearance of the Luisan. It says that

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he was a vaguely human appearance, but said to be

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extremely ugly, even horrendous looking. Luisan had long, dirty hair

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that fell down to cover most of his form, pale

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and sickly looking skin and eyes, and accompanied by the

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constant fetid odor of death and decay. So frightening and

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repulsive was his appearance that his mere presence would instill

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terror in any unfortunate enough to encounter the beast. That's

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for that one. The next one is and again all

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direct links are on again cust to Google docs. So

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the next link doesn't say too much different from the

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ones before. This is another wikifandom. It's from the Demonic

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Paradise and it's their Luisan entry. But I think what

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is of note or what is really interesting with this

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story is again the influence of colonialism, of European mythology

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and beliefs on indigenous mythology and belief and how it's

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kind of transformed. But either way, they were similar for

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some reason, like they started kind of similar, but then

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of course the Guardani Luissan mythology kind of adopted more

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European influence, morewolf influence. But I think it is still

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really interesting that they kind of started similar these kind

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of like canine likenthrope, kind of at the base they're

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like dog creatures. This next one is from a website

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called Factschology dot com and this is called e Luison

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of Guardani Mythology Badagwe. So this says a little bit

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more of the same, but there are some other interesting

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facts in here. It says the Guadani people are one

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of the longest lasting Aboriginal groups located in South America,

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specifically in large parts of Badagwe, Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia.

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For most of its history, Guadani mythology was oral, making

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it almost impossible to know how and when the legend started.

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This has also led to multiple variations of the legend

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that range widely in detail. In fact, the original name

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for this creature is not El Luison or Lobison, as

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that original name is likely lost to history. This is

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more about the Luisan's parents, now in Kharana. But this

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also says that Ghardana was the beautiful granddaughter of one

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the first humans. Again, in some versions, thou kidnaps her

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and forces her to have the children, and in others

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they choose to marry, and she's willingly part of that family.

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But regardless, their marriage was forbidden and that is why

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this Oda Sea goddess placed that curse on them, who

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I'm kind of interested in. Let me see what this

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is again. This is from wiki fandom and this is

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from fictional indexing wiki and the entry is auDA see

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Brazilian mythology. Let me see if I'm pronouncing her name right.

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I had it right out of sea. It says that

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Ada Sea is the Guadani goddess of the sky. From

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her home in the moon, she saw Tupa, god of

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creation who lived in the sun. The two met and

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married and then went down to the earth to create people.

467
00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:43.759
Ada Sea and Tupa together created the first man, Rupave

468
00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:48.759
and the first woman, Sipave. Adasi's name means day mother. Okay, cool,

469
00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:51.799
So she's kind of like one of the main goddesses, right.

470
00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:54.640
So she saw this relationship and said, Nope, that's not okay.

471
00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:56.519
And I guess maybe as a way to try and

472
00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:59.039
prevent them from having children, was like, your kids are

473
00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:00.680
going to be cursed. But they went for it and

474
00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:03.720
they just had cursed monstrous children. That was the name

475
00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:07.480
of an evil spirit in South American Guadani mythology, although

476
00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:10.880
Thou is not quite synonymous with the devil and Christian beliefs.

477
00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:14.119
For example, he was sometimes referred to as the evil spirit,

478
00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.319
and as such may have been a personification of evil itself.

479
00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:20.640
Thou was created along with his opposite. I can't find

480
00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:25.079
a pronunciation online for this, but I'm thinking it's Anga

481
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:28.920
Dupiri by the supreme god of the Guadani creation myth Dupa,

482
00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:31.880
and was left with humanity on earth. So kind of

483
00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.599
he's like the evil spirit. Okay, got it. This makes

484
00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:37.079
a little bit more sense to me. So this continues again.

485
00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:39.119
He was the seventh and last child, so he took

486
00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:41.480
the final brunt of the curse, and he was considered

487
00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:44.799
the most hideous of the siblings. Of those creatures. He

488
00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:46.759
became the god or the lord of death, and in

489
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:48.960
some legends, if you see him, it means someone close

490
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:51.039
to you will die shortly. So again, this omen of death,

491
00:26:51.079 --> 00:26:53.480
there's many of them in all these cultures. Leon A

492
00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:57.160
La the Tusa Luisan. He is seen like a grim reaper,

493
00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:59.759
and once someone dies, the Luisan would then feed on

494
00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:02.519
their corpse before it drags it away. As the centuries

495
00:27:02.519 --> 00:27:05.319
went on, the Luisan's myth became closer to that of

496
00:27:05.359 --> 00:27:08.400
the common werewolf again once more because of the influence

497
00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:11.480
of European settlers. Also once more, there's this detail of

498
00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:14.160
the thirteenth birthday. So this says that, I guess you know,

499
00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:16.720
as soon as someone becomes a teenager, that's when they're

500
00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:19.319
able to transform. It says the Luisan was now a

501
00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:22.599
human until it's thirteenth birthday, when it gained the ability

502
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:25.400
to transform into a demonic werewolf during a full moon

503
00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:28.799
afterward on Tuesdays and Fridays again hybrid schedule. We love

504
00:27:28.839 --> 00:27:31.079
that the Louisan would go out and spread its curse

505
00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:34.759
to unsuspecting victims. In these versions of the legend, the

506
00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.799
Louisan emits a nauseating smell, and if the sight of

507
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:40.480
it scares you, the fear will drive you insane. When

508
00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:42.640
it is unable to find the flesh of dead animals

509
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:44.920
or humans to eat, it will attack. But not only

510
00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.759
does it kill its victims, it eats their souls. This

511
00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:50.799
causes them to become cursed as well. The Luisan was

512
00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:53.680
also known this is really interesting for feeding specifically on

513
00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:57.400
unbaptized children if they cannot find a meal, something that

514
00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:01.759
undoubtedly evolved from the influence of Catholicism as it's spread

515
00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:05.680
in South America. So again, these Catholic colonizers came to

516
00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:08.279
these indigenous people and I'm sure put this fear in

517
00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:10.599
them or even in their own people before they traveled

518
00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:14.319
and were like, well, if your kid is unbaptized, the Luisan,

519
00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:16.960
the werewolf, whatever, this monster, it's going to get your baby.

520
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:19.440
So dip your baby in that holy soup and make

521
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:23.079
sure that they're baptized. The name Lobyson is derived from Lobisomim,

522
00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:25.440
which translates again to wolf manc You can see where

523
00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:28.640
the European influence changed the original legends. So this is

524
00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:32.960
also a legend in Argenthina, so it's pretty much the same,

525
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.000
but this one. This part of the entry says that

526
00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:37.319
in the nineteen hundreds, it was said the President of

527
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.079
Argentina began adopting the seventh son of any Catholic family

528
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:43.799
in order to prevent their deaths. This also apparently broke

529
00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.640
the curse and helped curb the child killings in superstitious families.

530
00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:50.920
The practice of the president quote adopting the children became

531
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:54.400
a tradition and later law in nineteen seventy four. Despite

532
00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:57.160
several news articles reporting this as fact, it turns out

533
00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.759
that the origin of the president adopting the seventh child

534
00:28:59.799 --> 00:29:02.119
of the family was not rooted in the myth of

535
00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:05.720
Ell Lovisson. In twenty fourteen Slash twenty fifteen, after several

536
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:10.240
reports of that Arenthinian President Christina Fernandez the Kirchner adopted

537
00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:12.240
a Jewish child to save him from the curse, the

538
00:29:12.240 --> 00:29:15.400
Guardian published a story clarifying that this was not the case,

539
00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:18.759
so adopted for some other reason. In reality, sorry to

540
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.160
Brister Bubble, there is no quote adopting and there never

541
00:29:22.279 --> 00:29:26.000
has been an adoption. Instead, the president becomes the unofficial

542
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:29.559
godparent of the seventh child of a family. This was

543
00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:32.720
slash is a tradition that started in the early twentieth

544
00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:35.839
century and has nothing to do with the lowson. According

545
00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:39.799
to Artenthina historian Daniel Barmaseda, the tradition started in nineteen

546
00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:43.640
oh seven after several Russian immigrants asked the then Argentina

547
00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:46.559
president to become the godfather of their seventh son. The

548
00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:49.319
president agreed, and it became a tradition with one president

549
00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:52.440
juampit on becoming godfather to one thousand, nine hundred and

550
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.839
eighty two children while in office. So the next one

551
00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:58.680
that we have is again from Argentina. It looks like

552
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:03.960
this is from smithsonianmag dot com and it says Argentina

553
00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.319
has a superstition that seventh sons will turn into werewolves

554
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.839
if the president adopts them. However, the seventh sons are

555
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:12.640
spared from their werewolf fate. Again, we know that that

556
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.200
is not entirely true. But this is published in twenty

557
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.759
fourteen Smithsonian magazine. And again already there's an update here.

558
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.440
It says update. According to the Guardian, there is a

559
00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:24.599
superstition about werewolves and seventh sons. Quote. According to some

560
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:27.480
versions of the myth, the seventh son of the seventh son.

561
00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:30.400
See and here's another like family structure rule. So now

562
00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.000
it's the seventh son of a seventh son is particularly

563
00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:35.200
prone to fall victim to the curse. How about we

564
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.839
stop having seven kids? How about that? I feel like

565
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:40.640
that's that's true. I don't know, that's my personal taste.

566
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:43.160
I feel like that's maybe too many. This says, but

567
00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:46.599
that seventh son myth is not connected to the seventh

568
00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:50.319
son adoption tradition say seventh son seven times fast. Oh

569
00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:53.160
my goodness, so many kids. I can barely handle, Margaret.

570
00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:54.960
So this is pretty much saying a lot of what

571
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:58.359
we went over already. But here this says in Gwadanni

572
00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:00.759
mythology that Lobisona is the office ring of Thou and

573
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.240
evil spirit in Kanana. We know that a mortal woman.

574
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:06.359
In the cultures that believe in the lobison that creature

575
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:09.039
acts as a sort of grim reaper whose mere presence

576
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:11.200
means that death will soon befall those it comes to

577
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.519
contact with. Again, we know that, as The Independent explains,

578
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.039
by the nineteenth century, fear of this creature was so

579
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:21.160
acute in Agenthiena that families sometimes murdered their seventh sons

580
00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:23.920
to prevent the legend from coming true. This reminds me

581
00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:27.160
kind of like the whole Lichusa effect and how sometimes

582
00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:31.480
people will capture owls and harm them, and it's I

583
00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:34.400
don't think we should be doing that, hot take. Let's

584
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.559
not kill animals and people, right, But again, this creature

585
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.119
was so believed and so feared this curse that people

586
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:41.880
didn't want to risk it, and so they took it

587
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.319
to that level, this says. So in nineteen oh seven,

588
00:31:44.440 --> 00:31:47.240
in an attempt to stop this practice, the Agenthenian presidents

589
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:50.200
began adopting seventh sons. This is the part that they updated,

590
00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:53.039
is that this in fact was not related to the

591
00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:56.240
Lobison curse. But I wonder then why, I don't know.

592
00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:58.759
In addition being able to say he's the president's godson,

593
00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:01.279
that we will receive eve a gold medal and enjoy

594
00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:03.960
full educational scholarship in modern time to the curse, it

595
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.759
seems is more aptly described as a blessing. So again,

596
00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:10.440
we know now that this is from the influence of

597
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:13.559
Russian immigrants that were coming over and saying, hey, be

598
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:18.079
the godfather to or be the godparent to our seventh

599
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:20.480
child or whatever. And for some reason the president at

600
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.359
the time was like, sure, that sounds like a fun tradition,

601
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.319
let's get that started. But also it was around the

602
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:28.240
same time that people were allegedly harming their seventh child

603
00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:30.920
to prevent this curse. So again it's just like this

604
00:32:31.160 --> 00:32:34.759
everything kind of funneled up to this one spot and

605
00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:38.599
someone decided, Okay, this is happening because of this versus

606
00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:40.359
it was just a coincidence that it was happening at

607
00:32:40.359 --> 00:32:43.640
the same time. The last link that I have here

608
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.319
is from Britannica dot com and this is just an

609
00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:48.839
entry on the Gwandani people because I wanted to read

610
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:50.839
more about them. We're talking about a story from their

611
00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:53.119
culture and talking about them and some of their beliefs.

612
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:56.599
So this says Guadani, South American Indian group living mainly

613
00:32:56.640 --> 00:33:00.599
impat away and speaking a Gupian language also called Guardani.

614
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.920
Smaller groups live in Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. Modern Badaguey

615
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:09.400
still claims a strong Guardani heritage, and more Badawuayyans speak

616
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.759
and understand Guarani than Spanish. Most of the people who

617
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:16.319
live along the Badawuey River around Asuncion, which is the

618
00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:20.839
capital of Badaweh, speak Guarani, which with Spanish, is an

619
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:23.799
official language of Badaweh. At the turn of the twenty

620
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:28.119
first century, the Guardani in South America numbered nearly five million.

621
00:33:28.359 --> 00:33:32.559
The Aboriginal Guardani inhabited eastern Badawey and adjacent areas in

622
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:35.799
Brazil and Argentina. They lived in a manner common to

623
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:39.680
Indians of the tropical forest. Women maintained fields of corn,

624
00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:43.680
cassava and sweet potatoes while men hunted and fished the

625
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:47.880
practice of slash and burn agriculture required that they relocate

626
00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:51.200
their de thatched house settlements every five or six years.

627
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:55.359
As many as sixty pachulinily related families inhabited each of

628
00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:58.240
the four to six large houses that composed a village.

629
00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:01.920
The Guardani were warlike to captives to be sacrificed, and

630
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:05.000
it is alleged to be eaten. So okay, so interesting.

631
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:09.719
So is now this story influenced by this alleged custom

632
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:12.400
that they had of eating the people that they captured,

633
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:16.280
Because then the Luisan, this creature, he eats people, I think,

634
00:34:16.400 --> 00:34:18.880
but more traditionally he ate the corpses, you know, flesh

635
00:34:18.880 --> 00:34:20.760
of the dead. I wonder, I mean, if their captive,

636
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:23.519
if their warlike and they capture these people, chances are

637
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:25.239
they going to kill them because they're the enemy, right,

638
00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:27.159
So then if they're going to kill them, might as

639
00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:29.559
well eat their flesh. I don't know, could be a

640
00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.480
connection there. This continues. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,

641
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:36.840
some Thupian speakers migrated inland to the Rio de la Plata,

642
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:40.119
where they became the Guardani of Badahweh. A few scattered

643
00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:45.320
communities of pure quote pure Guarani Indians still survive marginally

644
00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:49.400
in the forests of northeastern Badahweh, but these were rapidly

645
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.079
dwindling in the late twentieth century. The best known of

646
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:56.599
them were the Abbapukuva. By The Way's cultural nationalism emphasizes

647
00:34:56.679 --> 00:35:00.599
the continuity of Guardani customs, language, and habits of mind.

648
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:03.719
In reality, however, the Spanish colonial way of life early

649
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:06.800
engulfed to the Guardani, and no truly indigenous customs have

650
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:11.000
survived except the now much altered language. As with many cases,

651
00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:13.039
I don't know. Maybe it's just pardon me as hopeful

652
00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.199
that some of it has to survive, right And I

653
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.679
would think it would be okay if it was kept

654
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:20.559
secret or hidden so that as to not lose it more,

655
00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:22.599
because we don't know what would happen, okay, And it

656
00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:24.360
looks like that's the last of the links that I have.

657
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:41.000
Welcome back, ghol friends, Thank you so much for listening.

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Cynthia Sera and I Flamenca, Belinda, Isaiah Archer, Rigadolo and Sarah.

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Thank you so so much for supporting this episode. It

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means the underworld to me. I will talk to you

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all in the next one and until then

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Bye,