Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate it!

This week I’m going to talk about a fun myth, which, according to Wikipedia, originated on the island of Puerto Rico in the 90’s, but quickly spread throughout Latin America. Today there are dozens of movies and series making mentions of it.

And I say funny because it’s not that such a thing wasn’t actually seen, it’s clear that they saw some “thing” in the fields. But rather the interpretation that has been made of it and how distorted it has become over the years. The first representations of this creature were a kind of alien.

According to the opinion of many, it is likely that they saw a coyote with mange and that is why it spread to so many countries so quickly.

A bit ugly anyways, isn’t it? Imagine the erratic and aggressive behaviour that mange causes to coyotes, tearing apart farm animals at night… of course it was going to cause panic!

The whole picture is the skeptical guy who has seen a coyote before, doubting what he knows because the one who has never seen one is convinced that he saw an almost out-of-this-world creature.

I hope you have a great weekend, see you in 7 days with another mythical creature from another country.

🦃

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