Case file · Folklore / legend
Kurupi
Kurupi is a lizard-like son of Tau and Kerana, a spirit of fertility known for an enormous phallus, blamed in Paraguayan folklore for unexpected pregnancies and for abducting women.
1929 CE · -25.65, -57.00 · status: legend
The account
He was traditionally invoked to explain pregnancies outside marriage, much as the Trauco is in Chiloé. The year marks Colmán's 1929 publication of the cycle; the pin is symbolic, in Paraguarí.
The sceptical view
Anthropologists read the Kurupi, like the Trauco, as a social device for explaining pregnancies outside marriage.