mitos de la amazonia

A group of young people was building a canoe in the jungle , about half an hour’s walk from their hut. One morning, after completing the work and contemplating how to transport it to the river, they heard in the distance a sound resembling a large troop of monkeys approaching. One of them went back to the hut to fetch his shotgun to hunt them. After a while, when the noise of the monkeys seemed closer, the other saw his brother arriving with the shotgun on his shoulder. From a certain distance, he signaled for him to follow. They walked a long way through the jungle, and the sound continued ahead of them as they progressed. The young man then noticed that the trees around him were very large and unusual, ones he had never seen in those places. Suddenly, he realized that his companion’s feet were uneven: the left foot smaller and with nails resembling tiger claws. The young man stopped in fear. Upon noticing that the young man wasn’t following, the fantastical individual also stopped an...

Juan Antonio Pinedo Panduro was an honest farmer who, in his youth, devoted much of his time to hunting. One morning, he asked his mother for permission to go in search of deer. After she packed half a dozen boiled eggs and a couple of ripe bananas in his bag, he headed towards the Cumbaza stream and followed it upstream until reaching its headwaters, where several other streams converge. Suddenly, he saw some golden “shitaritos” fish in the waters of one of them. Eager to catch them, he followed the little fish, but they eluded him, as if sensing his intention, heading to a pool of dark water. Pinedo discovered with surprise, lying on the edge of this pool, a huge black and shiny bull, drooling something yellow. Overcoming the strong impression he had, he decided to investigate up close. The bull remained in the same state and the same place; he realized that where the animal’s drool fell, there were pure gold nuggets. Happy with this discovery, he decided to return home. Facing a su...