Island cultures have long been fertile breeding grounds for magic, myths and creepy stories. And Chile's Chiloé Island is one of the most prolific when it comes to horrendous creatures, evil beings and fantastic explanations of natural phenomena (usually involving crawling beasts, witches and ghost ships).Many Chilean arts and crafts have taken inspiration from these southern tales, from collectible card games to endless books and stories involving the most despicable creatures of the large chilote bestiary, which, out of the more than thirty mythological characters, most of them are evildoers. One of the most common ones is the Trauco, an incubbus related imp that hypnotizes young virgin women by hitting his phallic-shaped stick against trees and fences. Hijo de Trauco (Son of Trauco), Alan Fischer's sophomore...
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