The Caypór masquerade at Ega

Bates described Indigenous festival masquerades at Ega in the 1850s in which one dancer played the Caypór, a forest being with red skin and long red hair who keeps underground hunting grounds stocked with game.

1856 CE · -3.36, -64.72 · status: account

The account

Bates wrote that belief in this being was common to Tupí-speaking peoples and that it was treated as a hobgoblin rather than worshipped. Year approximate (Bates lived at Ega 1850-59).

Connections in the atlas

• Bates and the noises of the Curupira
• Curupira

Sources

1. Project Gutenberg: Bates, The Naturalist on the River Amazons