Case file · Folklore / legend
Saints and visagens of Itá
In 1948 anthropologists Eduardo Galvão and Charles Wagley studied the river town of Gurupá ('Itá'), recording beliefs in bichos visagentos: the boto, the Cobra Grande, forest beings and the encantados of the river bottom.
1948 CE · -1.41, -51.64 · status: account
The account
Galvão's Santos e Visagens (1955) and Wagley's Amazon Town (1953) are classic accounts of caboclo religion, mixing folk Catholicism and Indigenous belief.
Connections in the atlas
- Cobra Norato, the giant snake
- Spirits of the Deep: Belém's Batuque
- Matinta Perera, the whistling witch
- Bates hears of the shape-shifting boto