Case file · Folklore / legend
Saci
A one-legged trickster of Brazilian folklore who smokes a pipe, wears a magic red cap and travels inside whirlwinds.
1917 CE · -23.55, -46.63 · status: legend
The account
He blends Tupi lore with African-Brazilian and European elements. Much of today's Saci lore comes from material writer Monteiro Lobato collected from São Paulo newspaper readers in 1917 and published in 1918.
The sceptical view
A folk character, shaped in its modern form by a writer's survey.
Connections in the atlas
- Saci
- Curupira