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Maricoxi
Another mysterious primate,
this time from South America.
Reports of ape-like sub-men of pigmy, medium
and large sizes have also been numerous in the jungle regions of South America.
Descriptions and local names for the alleged man-animal are as diverse as those of
Africa, Asia and North America:
Aluxes,
Goazis
and
Guayazis (dwarf-like man-faced animals).
Aigypans
and
Vasitris (evil man-like beasts).
Matuyus
and
Curupiras (wild
men with their feet pointing backwards, which supposedly help the wild
animals and are defenders of nature and ecology).
Curinqueans
(giants twelve feet tall).
Di-di
or
Didi,
Mono Grande and the
Mapinguary
(Sasquatch-like
creatures).
Since
the arrival of the Portuguese and Spanish in South America, a steady
stream of reports about bestial and dangerous sub-humans have filtered
out of the hinterland. None is more compelling than the one made by
Colonel P. H. Fawcett, made world famous by his dramatic and still
unexplained disappearance with his eldest son in this area. The
Colonel's diaries were preserved up to his last fatal expedition, and
published by his son, Brian Fawcett, under the title 'Lost Trails,
Lost Cities'. In it, the Colonel describes an encounter in 1914 with
a group of enormous hairy savages that, although looked very primitive, were
carrying bows and arrows. Apparently these wild men could not speak, but just
grunt, and upon arriving their village, the Colonel and his group were on the
verge of being attacked, barely avoiding capture or death by firing their guns
into the ground at the ape-men's feet, who then fled in terror.
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See Agogwe,
Abominable
Snowman, Almas, Sasquatch,
Chuchunaa,
Curupira, Higabon,
Kaki Besar,
Bigfoot,
Mapinguary, Yeti,
Meh-teh, Nguoi Rung, 'X', Windigo,
Orang Pendek and Wildman of China.
Sources: (1)
Anderson, Ivan T.,
Abominable Snowmen: Legend
Come to Life,
Adventures Unlimited Press;
(2)
Wilson, Colin and Damon,
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of the Unsolved,
Carroll & Graf;
(3) Heuvelmans, Bernard,
On the Track of Unknown Animals,
Columbia
University Press;
(4) Wilson, Damon,
The Unexplained,
Scarlet Books; (5) Clark, Jerome,
Unexplained!,
Visible Ink Press.
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