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Brazilian folklore (Southeast; regional variants)

1 record of Brazilian folklore (Southeast; regional variants) — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.

PisadeiraNight visitor · BrazilPisadeira is a Brazilian night figure — a gaunt long-nailed old woman who lurks on roofs and tramples or sits on those who sleep face-up on a full stomach. Folklorists and sleep researchers map her to sleep-paralysis experience without erasing the folk being.