Dolphin
The dolphin denotes swift benevolent rescue at sea, saviour of the shipwrecked and lover of music, and serves as a guide for souls across water.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Animal World / Water Creatures
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Brazilian folklore (1)
- Same group
- Clam/ OysterCrocodile
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Boto Encantado is Brazilian folklore
why
In Brazilian Amazonian folklore, the Boto Encantado is a pink river dolphin that transforms into a handsome, charming man at night to seduce women at riverside festivals, then slips back into the water and vanishes before dawn.