Encerrados
Also called Encerrado.
The shut-in ones of Chiloe witch-lore, children taken and remade in cellars into grey servants for the Invunche and the Chivato.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Chilean folklore
- Region
- Chiloé Archipelago (place of origin)
- Trait family
- The Great-Thewed
Near this figure
Traits
Read from the figure's description, which a model wrote. Open "why" for the sentence a trait came from.
Behaviour
- Fed on blood to mature
why
The accounts are consistent and unpleasant, and there is no useful way to soften them: children abducted in the region, their orifices sewn shut by witches, kept in the dank underground and fed on the flesh of goats and of other child victims until they change into hairy grey cannibal creatures.
Curses
- Child stealing
why
The accounts are consistent and unpleasant, and there is no useful way to soften them: children abducted in the region, their orifices sewn shut by witches, kept in the dank underground and fed on the flesh of goats and of other child victims until they change into hairy grey cannibal creatures.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Shadow carries both readings
2 citations
- Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, s.v. "Encerrados."
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Encerrados."