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they/them/she/her, nb, 28, data scientist, tired from home, playing d&d on the weekends, occasionally a painter and writer in my free time ✌🏽
Nov 19, 2018 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Freaking cool fantastic beings from Brazilian folklore for the 3rd #FantasticBeasts movie: a Thread

Saci is a one-legged mulatto youngster that always smokes a pipe and has a magical red cap that enables him to disappear/reappear at will in a tornado shape. He’s also a trickster Boitatá is a fire serpent that protects the forests and its animals. Usually inhabits bottom of rivers and get out at night to burn invaders that try to cause harm to the forest. People who look at boitatás turn mad and blind. Also shapeshifts to a burning wooden trunk.