BY TRADITION
Chiloé folklore
3 records of Chiloé folklore — the beings, warnings and stories the tradition keeps, with sources.
El CaleucheThe ghost ship of Chiloé — Buque de Arte, Barcoiche, ship of fire — a night brig of lights and music that sails the channels, even underwater, carrying brujos and the drowned. Island lore, not a generic Flying Dutchman with Spanish names.El TraucoA small, deformed forest being of Chiloé who carries a stone axe and a twisted staff, the pahueldún. His gaze and breath are said to overwhelm women and injure men. Island lore, not a generic Latin American incubus.InvuncheIn Chiloé lore, the imbunche or invunche is a stolen or sold first-born, reshaped by island brujos into the mute, twisted porter of the witches’ cave. Distinctly Chilote — tied to the Recta Provincia and caves such as Quicaví — not a mainland ghost.
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