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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Come on, people of Brazil! You gotta have something scarier than a dude with backward feets as your must famous and ¿scariest? demon legend thingy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

How about basically the same thing, but it's a naked kid smoking a cigar? Watch out! He's got second hand smoke!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Much better! The weirder the folklore demon the better. Tho It's still a far cry from south east Asia folklore. The Penanggalan is one of my favorites.