Brazilian folklore is a wonderful stew of European, African, and Native American legends, flavored with exotic spices that are added and subtracted to each region’s taste. Much has been written on the subject over the years. One of the major and more recent sources is by the Brazilian folklorist Luís da Câmara Cascudo, whose Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro (Dictionary of Brazilian Folklore) is widely cited.
But the body of work reaches as far back as the 16th century, when José de Anchieta – a Jesuit missionary, writer, and key player in early Brazilian history – mentioned in a letter certain espectros notournos (night specters), dêmonios (demons), and fantasmas (ghosts) that terrorized the Indian population.
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