Pishtaco
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.15|Pishtako, Peruvian Retablos|Peruvian Retablo, Ayacucho A '''''' (in Northern Quechua "slaughterer, cutthroat"), (in Southern Quechua, similar meaning) or (in Aymara,"slaughterer") is a folkloric boogeyman figure in the Andes region of South America, particularly in Peru and Bolivia, which extracts the fat of its victims.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mythical creature
- Subclass of
- bogeyman
- Part of
- mythology
- Country
- Peru
- Image
- Retablo11-Pistaku.jpeg
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Legend
- Protection and cure
- Sacaojos
- Other observations
- Colonial background
- Ecclesiastic pishtaco
- Techno-pishtacos
- Greasing modern machinery
- Pishtacos affair
- Journalists as pishtaco
- The arts and media
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
- Pishtaco texts in Quechua
thumb|upright=1.15|Pishtako, Peruvian Retablos|Peruvian Retablo, Ayacucho A '''''' (in Northern Quechua "slaughterer, cutthroat"), (in Southern Quechua, similar meaning) or (in Aymara,"slaughterer") is a folkloric boogeyman figure in the Andes region of South America, particularly in Peru and Bolivia, which extracts the fat of its victims.
It is believed to have originated in Spanish conquistadors' practice of using Indigenous Peruvians' corpse fat as treatment for wounds and illnesses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pishtaco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.