
The Story of the Tulevieja
A haunting Panamanian and Costa Rican folktale about a bird-woman who cries for her lost child

A haunting Panamanian and Costa Rican folktale about a bird-woman who cries for her lost child

El Salvador's eternally young trickster, son of the Siguanaba, and the tales that keep a culture laughing and wise

A Guatemalan shape-shifting spirit who wears beauty like a mask and night like a dress

A Guatemalan folktale of guardian spirits: the white protector and the treacherous black dog

Mayan sprites of the land: guardians, tricksters, and keepers of memory

A Mayan tale of a seductive jungle spirit who lures men to their end among the trees and cenotes

A Belizean forest guardian, a small old man who watches the trees, animals, and children who wander the jungle paths

An Afro-Brazilian legend of an enslaved boy who becomes a benevolent spirit guiding people to lost things

A mythic water serpent from Uruguayan folklore that watches the rivers and teaches respect for water

A luminous whisper across the Pampas — the restless soul and the night that remembers

A Pampas folktale of a restless spirit that brings misfortune to the lonely and the proud

How two great serpents of earth and sea shaped Chile’s mountains, valleys, and coastline

A Mapuche tale of a sorcerer's head turned into a night bird, an omen that drifts across the Andean foothills and the vales of southern Chile

A luminous legend from the Atacama Desert: a bird that eats gold and silver and leads miners to hidden veins

A Chilote myth of a child twisted into a guardian by witches, a tale of secrecy, sorrow, and the islands that keep it alive

A Chilote legend of a spectral ship that sails moonlit seas, crewed by the drowned and bound to the tides

How a sea spirit's dance decides the fate of fishermen along the Chilote shore

The seventh and last of the legendary monsters of Guaraní mythology — the lord of death and the shadow in the woods

A deep, sensory retelling of the sixth of the seven legendary monsters in Guaraní lore, the voracious sheep-like predator that haunts Paraguay's wild places

A Guaraní tale of the small, strange fertility spirit who lives in river shadows and woodlands

The fourth of the seven legendary monsters of Guaraní mythology: a small blond-haired boy who is the lord of the siesta

How the giant serpent became guardian of the open fields in Guaraní lore

Mbói Tu'ĩ — the parrot-headed serpent of Guaraní legend and riverside memory

Paraguay's first and most feared of the seven legendary monsters: a giant lizard crowned by seven dog heads
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