Case file · Folklore / legend
Muki, goblin of the mines
A small, bearded and horned spirit of the central Andean mines who owns the ore veins, makes bargains with miners and plays tricks on those who break taboos.
1950 CE · -10.68, -76.26 · status: legend
The account
Miners in Cerro de Pasco, Huancavelica and Bolivia leave coca, liquor and cigarettes for him. Year approximate, from twentieth-century ethnography.