Tradition
Kurupí is the fifth child of Taú and Keraná.
5/7A relative of Brazil's Curupira
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Where it livesForest of Caazapá
Saga Colmán speaks of the forest. Caazapá is the place this saga chooses.
HabitatForest
How it movesHe climbs vines and leaves backward tracks
Fear
Cunning
Speed
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- Domain
- Lord of the forest
- When
- At siesta time, in this saga
- Watch out
- His tracks deceive: his feet point backward
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The mini tale
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Variant
He was born with a mission: to care for the animals and the plants that bear fruit.
Saga
And he fulfilled it for a long time, until one siesta he climbed a tree covered in vines.
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From up high, he watched again.
Saga
He saw men enter the forest to hunt.
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He could have stopped them. But he chose to rest.
Saga
Tupã saw him and punished him.
Tradition
He turned his feet backward, so he would never again run from his duty.
Saga
And he tied vines around his waist, so he would never forget why he was created.
Saga
Since then, Kurupí walks the forest at siesta time.
Variant
He does not act out of rage. But whoever harms life, he stops.
Saga
The forest becomes a trap, the vines tighten and the path disappears. Punishment arrives like the siesta: silent and inevitable.
Variant
In Villarrica and Caazapá, a vine bears his name.
Saga
Kurupí was not born evil. Punishment made him a guardian.
The end (Opá)
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What is tradition and what is art?
- Tradition
He is the fifth child and Colmán calls him lord of the forest.1
- Tradition
Backward feet are his best-known trait, and they confuse anyone following his tracks. The earliest cited written record of the Kurupí dates to 1793.2
- Variant
Forest protector or abductor: many popular versions give him kidnappings and behavior meant for adult tales. This saga, made for all ages, leaves that out.21
- Saga
Tupã's punishment does not appear in Colmán or in the other sources we consulted. It is an invention of this saga.1
- Saga
The vines around his waist also belong to this saga, a way of telling the character for all audiences.
- Variant
Colmán mentions a forest vine named after Kurupí. The places named in the video, Villarrica and Caazapá, do not appear in that passage.1
