danger-in-mere-glimpse

Ninki Nanka · salience 0.95

“A central and consistently attested belief is that merely seeing the Ninki Nanka is dangerous: in many tellings, those who glimpse it are said to fall ill, go mad, or die soon afterward, and the creature is sometimes invoked by elders as a warning to children to stay away from certain waterways.”

Cadejo · salience 0.6

“some tellings hold that looking directly into a Cadejo Negro's eyes can bring harm or bad luck.”