AMERICAS ASSOMBRADAS is for All Ages. AMERICAS ASSOMBRADAS was written by ANHANGÁ MIRIM and THAIS LINHARES.
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About this book:
Title: "Haunted Americas" (first translated into english by the author)
Thais Linhares, under the nickname of Anhangá Mirim, the Guarani word for Small Devil
Illustrations by Thais Linhares
Original title: Américas Assombradas
ISBN: 978-85-377-0453-0 (aluno)
ISBN: 978-85-377-0454-7 (professor)
Year of Publication: 2008
Original publisher: Escala Educacional
Number of pages: 48
Synopses:
Welcome to Haunted Americas.
A group of short stories where you'll find about all kind of supernatural creatures that lurks the dark places of the three Americas: North America, Central America and South America.
Each one of those creatures has their own ways, depending on the local folklore. That book will tell you their stories, and where you can find and, if you dare so, follow their hidden paths.
Please, remember to BE afraid of the dark.
Foreword:
Hi, little sister, hi, little brother!
Stay with me e read quiet,
For I will tell you about a magic and scary continent.
But you don't need to be so disturbed!
I promise you that those spooky creatures that craw through those haunted roads, are only legends from superstitious people of the Americas, eager to play tricks on you.
Keep well these stories,
For someday, all around the fireplace, surrounded by the shadows of the night you either will tell these stories for your son and daughter, for your grandsons and granddaughters, and for anyone else who wish to enter in our circle of legends.
And the world turns again…
Summary:
America's haunting creature’s location Map subtitles:
1-Alaska: The Spirit's Road
2-Canada: The Big Foot
3-United States of America: Naguals, Howling in the night
4-Mexico: The Dark Rock Dagger's Butterfly
5-Guatemala: Llorona,the Crying Lady
6-El Salvador: The Cipitillo
7-Honduras: Dark Dog x White Dog
8-Nicaragua: The Headless Captain
9-Belize: The Cristal Skull
10-Haiti: Tonton Macoute, the unhappy Christmas
11-The Dominican Republic: Opia and Operito, two bizarre ghosts
12-Puerto Rico: The Dreadful Chupacabras
13-Costa Rica: the Tulevieja claws!
14-Venezuela: the tower dwarf
15-Suriname: watch out for your blood! Azemane bites!
16-Peru: Catecates, the Flying Witch Heads
17-Central Brazil: The White Lonely Maiden from the Roads
18-South Brazil: The Two Color Woman
19-Amazonas River: The men eaters Iupiaras
20-Bolivia: Huayra Tata – Wind and Hurricane
21- Chile: Salamanca, the Devil's party.
22- Paraguay: Piaiovai, the Forest Cannibals
23-Argentina: the Miquilo from the Fields
24- Uruguay: Jaguaron, the gigantic jaguar.
(two selected parts:)
Ipupiara, water ghosts
The ipupiaras are an amphibious people that inhabit the bottom of the rivers. The look very much like humans but with deep eye sockets and breathing holes on the top of their heads, like dolphins. They attack the riversiders, hugging them and squeezing them so hard that they kill them. Sometimes they chose to take away their victims and devour only their eyes, the nose and the body extremities, leaving the rest on the riverside.
Forrest Cannibals
When you walk through the forests of the Paraguayan Chaco, beware of any suspect sound coming from the top of the trees. There, in the tree tops is where the piaiovai use to hide. They are evil creatures similar to short men. They have their heels turned to the opposite side of the feet. Their Guarani’s name means exactly that: heel to the front. They keep ambush on the top of the trees till some careless walker gets near. Then,, they jump on him, biting him and chopping him with their axes. Their goal is macabre: to eat human flesh.
People say that they took many victims in 1932, during the war between Paraguay and Bolivia.
Contact:
Thais Linhares
Phone: 55 212259 3699 / 9937 6373
Email:
[email protected]
Other books by Thais Linhares
Vovó Dragão. Rio: Editora Nova Fronteira, 2'� Ed.
Breno! Breno! São Paulo: Editora Larousse do Brasil, 2'� Ed
O Livro do Cavaleiro, Rio: Editora Ygarapé, 1'� Ed
O Monge e o Macaco, Rio: Editora Ygarapé, 1'� Ed
Rapunzel, São Paulo: Editora Mundo Mirim, 1'� Ed
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