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Preta · salience 1

“Pretas are most often described as grotesquely disproportionate: a huge, distended belly signaling enormous, unrelieved hunger, set atop a thin, needle-like throat too narrow to pass more than a trace of food or drink.”

Isiququmadevu · salience 0.7

“The creature is described as bloated and squat, bearded in some renderings, and its characteristic act is total consumption: it swallows people, cattle, dogs and whole settlements, and the accounts pile the categories up to convey scale.”