Caipora
It is a dwarf with Red Hair, hairy body and green teeth. As protector of Plants and Animals, usually punishes the nature abusers and the hunters who kill for pleasure. It is very powerful and strong.
His feet turned backwards serve to outwit the hunters, leaving them always to follow false trails.
Boitatá
It is a monster with huge fiery eyes. During the day is almost blind but at night sees everything. Legend has it that the Boitatá was kind of a snake and was the sole survivor of a great flood that covered the earth.
Sometimes it takes the form of a snake with flaming eyes of your head size and chases the night travelers. Sometimes it is seen as a shimmering flash of fire running from side to side of the forest.
Mula sem cabeça
In small villages or towns where there are houses surrounding a church, at night, there may be appearances of the Headless Mule. Also if anyone go running before a cross at midnight, it appears. They say it's a woman who dated a priest and was cursed. Every passage from Thursday to Friday she goes at a crossroads and there becomes the beast.
Iara
The seductive mermaid Uara or Iara who enchants the fishermen. Those who give in to the charms of the beautiful Iara end up drowned. She leaves her home in the bottom of the river in the late afternoon and comes to border of the river: half woman, half fish, long hair decorated with red flowers. Sometimes it takes the human form and heads out looking for victims.
Saci Pererê
It's a black little boy with one leg who smokes a pipe and wears on his head a red cap that gives him magical powers, such as fading and appearing anywhere he wants.
He loves making small pranks, such as hiding toys, drop animal pens, pour salt in other people's meals, braiding the manes of the horses, etc. Says the popular belief that inside every whirlwind there is a Saci. It does not cross streams or creeks. Someone chased by it, should play knotted ropes in his way because he'll stop to untie the knots, allowing one to run away.
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