Mapniguari
nature_spirit single tradition · 1
The Mapniguari deliberately chooses a holiday or Sunday to do its prowling. The hunter who hunts on those days is risking death. The hunter's encounter with the Mapniguari is contextualized as punishment for breaking Sabbath on Sunday.
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“Catholic catechism" had already been noted by Cascudo (1976) who writes that the Mapniguari deliberately chooses a holiday or Sunday to do its prowling, so that the hunter who hunts on those days is risking death. The hunter's encounter with the Mapniguari contextualized as punishment for breaking Sabbath”
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