Dry-Corpse
A Brazilian mythology - Corpo-Seco ("Dry Corpse") — a man so evil that the earth would not rot its flesh and the devil would return his soul. Condemned to wander fruitlessly the earth until the judgment day.
Other version of the legend
Corpo-Seco (Dry-Corpse), according to the legend, is a man who spent his life beating the mother. When he died, he was rejected by God and the Devil, including the land that disgusted repelled him. One day, it arose from his tomb, completely rotten, and it stuck in trees that are then dried.
In the interior of São Paulo, a variant of this legend, is that when a person is close to it, the body jumps on it and dry it by sucks all your blood, if any person does not pass he will die, because it feeds on human blood (similar to a vampire). There are also reports of the body in the dry state of Paraná, Amazonas, in some Portuguese-speaking African countries in the region and the Midwest, mainly.
The folk tradition says that a dry-corpse is a kind of zombie, the rest was denied due to abuse to their parents. Not even the land accepts it, which are discarded after buried.
Fiction
- Comic book (2010) by Frank Da Silva: Dry-Corpse, based in a Brazilian mythology legend.
External links
- 1 - Brazilian folklore
- :pt:Corpo-seco - Corpo-Seco
- 2 - Guaratinguetá – Terra de “causos” – Corpo-Seco (Dry-Corpse)
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