August 21, 2025 • 45 mins
I CAN'T FIND MY KEYS!!! In this episode, Ayden resurrects one of his earliest episodes on Susto about mischievous little beings that hide in walls, steal your things, and cut off toes, Duendes!
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
Hello, girlfriends, it's me Adrian or Aiden. Either way, I'm
still your host, and you're still listening to Sustal. Now
I'm just kidding. Imagine, Hey, girlfriends, it's me Adrian or Aiden.
Either way, I'm still your host and you are still
listening to Sustal, the podcast of paranormal folklore from Latin
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American cultures. I was trying. I don't know why I
felt the urge to do normal SpongeBob doy'all remember that.
Anybody get that reference? That was weird. It did not
feel right at all. Anyway, Hello, it's good to see you.
Welcome back, Thank you for joining me once again, and
if this is your first time, welcome. Goolfriend's Fun update. So,
if you've been watching the vlogs on YouTube, you already
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know pretty much all of this. But I got a tattoo.
I got my birthday tattoo, which is right here if
you are watching if you are a best Goolfriend on Patreon,
and the YouTube videos are actually available free of ads
on Patreon as well. But anyway, showing it here my
tattoo of this sword, which is I have it right
here too, the sword on the cover of this book.
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That I'm constantly talking about, can I get in frame
stories that must not die? So you can see that
right here. I'm holding it up as well. But I
also do a side by side in the YouTube vlog
as well, So very excited it's healing well. The artist
Neto Velasco which I said his name wrong in the
vlog like, but he's an amazing artist. He has a
very specific style that I think he like coined the
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phrase for this. He came up with this. It's bubblegum
traditional and it looks really cool. So this is not
in his style, but I really like his artwork and
I wanted to get something by him regardless, So this
is kind of of like, I'll do this first with him,
and I really want to go back for something else
with him, but let me at least let this one.
He'll all the way first before I go and get
something else. Right Anyway, I talk more about him in
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again the YouTube blog, so please go ahead and check
that out because it was a lot of fun and
he's really cool, and make sure to go follow him.
There's links to his stuff in the description of that
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comment on the video, all that good stuff. Moving on
to upcoming events, I've been talking about the Spooky season
and how we get really busy with live events this
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time of year, which I'm so excited for, and so
right now I have three events on the books so far.
I think it's the tenth of the eleventh and the
thirty first, and that would be doing a talk and
a movie night at hont Happy Books in Lockhart, which
is one of my favorite bookstores in the world. If
you haven't had the chance to go, it is a
horror book shop. It's so fun. And then I also
have the Austin Public Library Campfire Stories, and then the
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night Owl podcast Spirit Social on Halloween Night. I haven't
posted the fly or the graphics with my kind of
little tour dates if you will for Spooky season, but
I will be posting that very soon. Again, if you
are an event organizer, or if you know an event organizer,
please reach out to me. Put me in contact with
these people for an event that you think I would
be good for. I'm open to all kinds of bookings,
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whether it is life storytellings, lectures, talks, podcasting, workshops, hit
me up, hey, if you've got a time slot for me,
I will find something to do. Okay, So very excited
for the spooky season and all of those bookings coming up.
Speaking of books and bookings, the Susto spell Book Club
is it's still in full swing. We're meeting at the
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end of this month on August thirty first, which is Sunday,
at one pm Central Time, to discuss The Witches of
Aposso by Luis Hadamio. You have about a week and
a half from today, which is Thursday, to finish the book.
But you can do it. I believe in you. I
am not done with it, and I remember at the
beginning of the month thinking, oh, this book is shorter
than what we read last month. I'll finish it really quick. No, no,
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I haven't finished it really quick. So listen, we can
do it. We have a week and a half. It's
like two hundred something pages. I believe, so we got this.
We can do it, and I am enjoying it. I'm
just like I've been you know how I am. I'm
doing a thousand things at once, so please you still
have time to join us for the discussion. I will
be sharing the zoom link closer to the date like
I did for the last one. And remember, the book
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club is public and it's free for everyone to join.
But patrons do get to choose the book that we
are reading, and they have access to the book club
discord channel, so it's not necessary. You don't have to
sign up for anything or pay for anything. You can
if you want to, but again, to participate in the
book club in the discussion, totally not necessary. That meeting
is free to the public to anyone to join, even
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if you didn't finish reading the book. We had folks
last time who didn't finish reading the book but didn't
mind the spoilers. They were into it. They were like, yeah, sure,
I'll still read it, or I want to know what
happens before I get there. Some people are into that.
Me I am like a zero spoilers please kind of person.
I don't even want to know if it was good
or bad. I just want to go into it completely unaware.
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So hey, to each their own. I'm very happy to
the folks that showed up last time and participated in
the discussion. It was so great and I'm very excited
for this next one. Again. August thirty First, that's Sunday
at one pm Central. Before we get into today's episode,
I actually want to respond to some Spotify comments because
I do respond on the app as well, So if
you didn't know this, you can comment on episodes on Spotify,
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and so I've had people leave comments before and I
usually respond on there, but I thought let me go
ahead and bring these to the episode too, so in
case people aren't looking there, they can hear about them.
And please, you can leave pretty much anything in the comments.
You can leave feedback, which someone has left feedback about
the volume of the show compared to the ads, and
I tried to fix it, So if you have feedback
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welcome it because I want to grow as a creator
and I am very grateful for that kind of feedback.
But it doesn't have to just be that. It could
also be a question, a compliment, or pretty much anything.
But I wanted to read over some comments we got recently.
So this is from Lauren, and Lauren said, I found
this podcast from TikTok and I'm so happy that I did. Lauren,
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I'm so happy that you found it as well. They
say there isn't a transcript, so I couldn't find it.
But what is the book called? Mentioned towards the end
that quote needed to be dominated. I'm very intrigued, not
to own lol, but for research. So Lauren left this
comment on the episode which is the interview with Alexis
and Eric from City Alchemists. And the book that Lauren
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was talking about was the Book of Saint Cyprian, and
I have a link here that I wanted to read
about it. This is from archive dot org on the
Book of Saint Cyprien. It says this book is a
massive occult work, complete with images from original texts, copious
amounts of notes and references, citations, and best of all,
information that has only been available in the original Portuguese text.
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So this book is translated from Portuguese to English. The
author was granted unprecedented access to private collections and study
the original texts in great detail. He has taken everything
he could from them and compiled what we believe to
be the single greatest reference on the subject of the
magic of Saint Cyprian. So if you haven't heard that episode,
I will of course link it in this episode's notes
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that you can go check it out or you can
go look for it again. That is the interview that
I did with Alexis and Eric from City Alchemist, which
was a great interview. And yeah, that book. I have
a story that I told about trying to purchase that
book that you can hear in that episode. The next
commet that I have here is from SIMBA one seven
to three and they left this on the episode about
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the dot em gap. They said, this was a great episode.
Thank you. With everything going on, this episode was needed.
It's unfortunate that the people who need to listen to
our struggle don't bother to learn. But I'm glad you
did that episode because it can change someone's mind about us.
Thank you so much. That means a lot. That episode
was kind of rough to put together, just because it's
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so it's it's it's reality. It's real again. Obviously, the
story that we wrote is a fiction, but it's based
on accounts of real life events of things that people
went through and go through, and so yes, it was
really hard. And if you do remember that episode, I
did also mention that released a little bit after my birthday.
A couple of days after and we ran a fundraiser
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with Doctors Without Borders, and I'm very excited to let
you all know that we actually raised three hundred dollars.
The goal was five hundred dollars, and if you remember,
I said anything would be greatly appreciated and would mean
a lot. But we raised three hundred dollars out of
the five hundred dollars goal, which is amazing. And I'm
so so touched by everybody's generosity, and so I just
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wanted to go through and read everybody off who left
their information. So a big, big, huge thank you, first
and foremost to Wukyo, Johnny and Eileen over at wikyoo
or our top donor with one hundred dollars. Oh my god,
you guys. As if I didn't love them already, not
that I need your money to love you, but come on,
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like Misa Moore is Miss Gaigno's, I love them so much,
so they left that amazing donation. We also have Victoria,
Miguel Revin and three anonymous donors. I wish you would
have left your name so I could read it out
as well, but I understand wanting to. I usually when
I donate to gofundmes and stuff like that, I will
do it anonymously if I remember too, So thank you
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so much to everybody for raising three hundred dollars with
me for Doctors Without Borders, who do really important work
all over the world, but also at the migrant checkpoint.
I guess we can call it outside of the that
end gap providing life saving work. So even though this
fundraiser is done, please consider donating to Daughters Without Borders,
because again they're doing amazing work all over the world,
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including at the exit of the that end Gap. So again,
thank you so so much. That was It's so touching
that that that we did that, that we pulled that off.
So with that said, we will go ahead and move
on into the episode on a high note. And this episode,
as you can see by the title, is a resurrected episode.
So I've done this twice. I did this with the
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episode of La and the Girl who Danced with the Devil,
and basically when I resurrect an episode, these are the
earliest episodes, like the very first episodes. I think Glendez
was number three that I did. And the reason I'm
doing it is because it's been six years of doing
this and I feel, at least I feel even though
I am still growing and learning that I have grown
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and learned a lot about putting these episodes together for you. Also,
I'm very excited to bring new skills, whether that be
with production, editing, writing, to go ahead and resurrect the
story of Gonds with you. So we're gonna go ahead
and get into that. So, without further ado, please enjoy
this resurrected episode of Gwendez. Mateo had just turned thirteen
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at the start of summer when his family moved. He
was having a difficult time adjusting from his high energy,
bustling city life to a quiet and sluggish rural setting.
He was alone in a new place. Everyone he knew
now hours away, and would remain that way until he
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could meet kids his own age when he started school
in the fall. After spending all morning and packing his
things in his new room, Mateo decided to take a
break and explore the family's new home. It was older
and rustic compared to his family's apartment in the city.
The floors creaked with nearly every step, and a strong
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enough gust of wind could shake the whole house. He
eventually made his way outside. The cozy four bedroom sat
isolated between a dirt road and a cornfield. The nearest
neighbor was a ten minute drive away. Mateo circled the
house until he stood at the edge of their backyard,
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connected to a field. Early in the harvest season. The
cornfield stood tall and inviting, providing shade and a break
from the midsummer sun. He felt drawn to enter the field.
Something other than the cool soil called to him there,
but he couldn't quite place what it was. Deep in thought,
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and now a few feet into the field, he heard
a sudden shuffling to his right. Mateo jumped to attention
and spun around to nothing. Maybe the wind was playing
tricks on him, rustling the cornstalks. Then he heard it again.
This time he could see movement ahead, certain it was
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a stray dog. He ran inside to grab leftovers and
ran back outside, hopeful to make a new friend, but
there was no sign of the dog u or anything
for that matter. Mateo loved animals and couldn't bear the
idea of a hungry pup, so he ventured back into
the field in search of a potential new pet. After
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an hour or two, he gave up on his search
and devised a plan to leave a trail of food
leading back to the house. Before he made his way back,
something in the dirt caught his eye. It looked like
a piece of pottery laying in the soil. With the
sun setting, he decided he'd inspect it back home. That night,
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Mateo was woken up by the sound of something shattering
in his room. He quickly turned the lights on and
looked around for what broke, but there was nothing. The
next day, after finishing unpacking his things, he remembered the
piece of pottery he found. He searched his room high
and low, and the rest of the house, but could
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not find it. His parents hadn't seen it either. To
the supermarket, but Theo went back into his room with
new batteries for his CD player, but he couldn't find
his headphones. He was sure he left them on his bed,
but now he was confused and frustrated. He settled for
watching a movie in the living room, and his eyes
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quickly grew heavy. In a snap, he opened his eyes
to darkness. It was the middle of the night, he
realized he dozed off. As he was about to move
to his bedroom. The television turned on seemingly by itself.
Full volume. Startled and worried that he would wake his parents,
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he scrambled to shut it off. He sat silently for
a moment, keeping an ear to the house to make
sure he hadn't woken anyone up. After a minute or two,
he started walking to his room again when he heard something,
a faint thudding, like something was moving in step with him.
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He took a few more steps and realized the the
sound was behind him. He ran to the nearest flight
switch in the kitchen. Just as he started to calm
himself and think maybe he was still dreaming, he heard
the pitter patter again, like tiny footsteps. Panicked and paralyzed,
he managed to slowly turn around in the glow of
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the stove top light. Standing before him at knee level,
Madeo wasn't sure what he was looking at, a small
humanoid being. It flashed a menacing grin full of razor
sharp teeth and Madeo's headphones around its neck Matheo panicked
as this creature rushed towards him. The only other exit
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that wasn't blocked by that thing was the back door
in the kitchen. He ran out of the house and
into the darkness. He's not sure why he chose it,
but felt like something was guiding him into the cornfield
against all logic. Screamed for his parents, but his voice
was muffled by the rattling of the corn stalks. He
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tripped and lost his sense of direction. All he could
see now was the stalks and the dark sky. He
heaved in the thick aroma of damp corn, trying to
regain his composure. Then he could hear the stalks cracking
closer and closer until he was finally face to face
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with the duende. Welcome back, well friends, Okay, thank you
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so much for listening to that story. The first source
that we have here is of course, a good old
Wikipedia link, and this is just a really quick rundown
of what a dwenda is. A very simple definition that
it has here on Wikipedia is that a dwenda is
a humanoid figure of folklore with variations from Iberian, Ibero American,
and Latin American cultures, comparable to dwarves, gnomes, or leprechauns.
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So dwenda's definitely fall in the they category, right. A
lot of people compare them to gnomes or goblins or elves.
Those are usually the big three that we hear, right,
The etymology of the word wende is that in Spanish,
duende originated as a contraction of the phrase dueno de gasa,
effectively master of the house, or alternatively derived from some
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similar mythical being of the Visigoth or Swabian culture, given
its comparable looks with the tone of the Swedish language.
Conceptualized as a mischievous spirit inhabiting a dwelling, they are
fay also in the sense that they fall into the
category of like wilderness or forest dweller, or like wildlife protector.
They're normally seen in the wild right like surrounded by nature. However,
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a lot of people also say that they live in
the walls of people's houses. I've heard other lore. This
may come up in some of the other sources I
can't remember. One way to get rid of them is
to lure them out with candy or shiny things or
like gifts. Basically, so you open your back door and
you walk through the house. I've heard with like candy,
like a handful of candy. You walk through the house
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and then you throw it out the back door, and
you don't see them, but they they run out the door,
chasing the candy and then you close the door behind
that right, so you give them the opportunity to exit
with a gift. They're the opposite of a polite house guest.
Instead of breaking a gift, they take something right. And
they're also known to hide things. That's that's how I
grew up knowing what a dwnda was. It was always
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said that if something went missing, or it was moved
or misplaced, it was a dwen them messing with you,
because yes, they are mischievous little things. So yeah, every
time I lose something, I'm like, damn it, there was
a blende. I've also heard that saying the word dwende,
which I've now said about one hundred times, summons them.
So I just want to preface. I mean, it's too
late to preface, but I want to say it now.
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Lay down the boundary that sorry, y'all are not welcome
in here. There is a beautiful creek right outside her apartment.
Go live there. There's plenty of stuff for you to
have out there, not in here. And we have Margaret.
She will I'm sorry, but I feel like Margaret could
take a gunde. She's she won't fall for their tricks,
and she's got razors on her hands, so and if
they mess with her, I will go after them. This continues.
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Spanish folklore is rich intels and legends about various types
of Duendez, and then there's a bunch of names for
how they're known here, and this says like different names
were comparable beings. Are Anhannas, Buzgosos, Dianos, Ernanos, elfos, Adas, Nomos, Noberus, Dentirujus,
Trasos or Trasgus, Traslius, Trentis, Tronantes, vent dolinis, and others.
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In some regions of Spain, Duendez may have other names,
like I said Earlieros and Galicia, Foyet and Catalogna Irak
in the Basket Country, and Nevara Trasgus in Asturias, Menutos
or Mendos in Via the Echo and in other parts
of Atto, Araguon and Menge's south of Spain. So there's
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like all these different names for them, and this Wikipedia
entry goes through them. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen four. There's like fifteen different names for Duendez that
that they go through here. So it's interesting that they
kind of go by different names, and I'm like, I'm
sure it's the same creature. They're just again known by
many names. The next link that I have here is Thede.
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This is just a specific one that I wanted to
talk about, because again there's all these different names for them,
but this one says that the tende or del monte,
which is master of the mont or the master of
the forest right, is a supernatural creature appearing in cultural
folklore stories, mostly evident in Creole cultures. That Dadwende is
considered a powerful spirit that protects animals and the jungle.
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Though it is believed to lack thumbs, there are many
stories that have been passed on from generation to generation
to warn against this spirit. This creature has appeared on
a postage stamp of Belie as a part of a
series of Belizean folklore. The Nametadwende comes from the Yukatek
Maya word tata, meaning grandfather or old, and the word
duende is Spanish for goblin, so an old goblin right.
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This Spanish term duende originated as a contradiction of the
phrase dueno gasa or duen the gasa duende possessor of
a house and was originally conceptualized again as a mischievous
spirit inhabiting a house. It is said that if you
encounter him in the forest, you must show your hands
with the thumbs hidden, or he will break them off.
Yet he is regarded as a caring spirit, so basically
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they're jealous of thumbs, so don't let them see your thumbs.
And if you're watching the video, I'm hiding my thumbs
here or he will break them off. I want to
see this postage stamp really quick. Oh yes, I've seen
these before, I remember. Yeah, this is a it's a
Christmas nineteen ninety one folklore stamp from Belize. Oh this
is on eBay. I kind of want it. It's not
Oh damn it, it was sold. Okay, if anybody sees a
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gwen that, I'll put the picture up here so you
can see it as well. This folklore Christmas nineteen ninety
one Duende postage stamp. Please send me the link or
buy it for me and send it to me. That
is so cool. Okay, yeah, I definitely I need that
for sure. Okay, moving on to the next source that
I have here. This is actually a painting and this
painting comes up a lot when you search Dwendez. This
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is a painting called Gaprico's Hobgoblins or Duen Decitos from
seventeen ninety nine from one of my favorite artists, which
is Francisco Dagoya. This artist famously did the Saturn Devouring
his Son painting, and he also has a ton of
kind of like really macabre, creepy paintings that I'm very
into because they're so cool. But here on this entry
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on nortonsimon dot org from the Norton Simon Museum, this
says this image is a thinly veiled attack on the
corruption and decadence of the Spanish Church. The paintings appear,
by the way in this video. In this print, clergy
are portrayed as tesque hobgoblins or mean spirited angels who
fell from heaven with Lucifer. I'll also be posting this
on social media. This continues. The central figures, sharp, jagged teeth,
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and enormous hand referred to the powerful grip the church
had on the country's wealth and its willingness to flaunt it. Now,
when I read this, this made me think of everything
that I've been told about Dwendez, which is that they
like to steal or take things. And so I thought
that this is really interesting because I wonder how long
that characteristic has been attributed to Dwendez and if it's
gone all the way since this seventeen ninety nine. That's
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the attitude people had about the church, at least in
this era and in this place, was that the church
is just taking. They're just like Dwendez. They just they
just come in and they steal, only take whatever they want,
which is kind of funny. Right. There's the second part
to this painting that I wanted to talk about from
a different source. This is from Fundacion Goya Andarragon dot
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e s. Which sounds like it's like a the Goya
Foundation and Aragon, but this is about the wendsitos. I
wanted to read the artistic analysis from this because that
is very interesting. It talks more about that in a
little bit more detail. It says three grotesque goblins dressed
in monk's habits are holding glasses of wine. The one
standing on the right of the print appears to belong
to a barefoot order and compared to the others, has
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a more taciturn and reserved attitude. The one in the
center gesticulates, displaying an enormous monstrous hand that bellies his
small size or belies his belies bellies b E l
I E s belies y also matterpronounce that his small size.
He laughs freely and reveals his battered sharp teeth. The
one on the left side of the print is sitting
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on the floor and appears to be deeply focused on
the glass he holds in one of his hands. The
scene takes place in a dark vaulted space, perhaps a cellar.
At the top of the room's far side, a barred
window opens. Using fine aquatint, Guya creates midtnes that contrast
with the light filtering through the bars. The room is
in semi darkness, and the painter chose not to give
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priority to any of the three figures, who are treated equally.
The National Library the Manuscript describes this scene very well,
quote the true goblins of this world are the priests
and friars who eat and drink at our expense. The
church or the clergy has sharp teeth and a monstrous
long right hand for grasping the barefoot friar more prudish
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covers the glass of wine, but the shod friar doesn't
mess around. He pours soup into wine and munches happily.
So definitely like a hardcore critique of the church, which
I think is valid and was extremely valid at that time,
like the church had way more power than which honestly
like it still has too much power now. But whatever,
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that's a whole different conversation, I guess. So this is
a really and this is why I like Guoya as
an artist because of these critiques that he did that
I'm sure were very, very controversial at the time, but
that people were probably like glad somebody was pointing out right.
This continues in the second half of the eighteenth century.
The word guende was used to refer to friars, so
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it could be interpreted that with this print, the artist
is resuming his criticism of the clergy, who in this
case are drinking the wine they earn from the town's tithe.
And the tithe is what people pay to the church.
So when you go and you give money the collection basket,
you're tithing. That is your tithe. The painter questions the
usefulness of this class, its role in a society forced
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to maintain it. No matter what. Yeah, and then this
finishes up here. The deformed faces of the engravings subjects
are clearly reminiscent of the characters found in the print
The Family of the Rustic Bertoldo, an anonymous work from
the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. In these cases,
the heads are disproportionately large for the bodies, a deformation
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also evident in Buen Desitos. So yeah, this is a
really cool piece of artwork and commentary on the church
and the church's power, which honestly I still think is relevant. Taxes,
churches whatever I said it. The next door is here.
This is actually an episode that I've done on Sustal
since originally doing the when this episode in This is
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about the children of the Jungle, and there will be
a link in the description of this episode as well.
And this is the story of the children who survived
a plane crash in the Amazon jungle and then survived
It was forty nights in the jungle. Again, a group
of children. I think I want to say it was
three children and the oldest one was like twelve or thirteen.
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But the reason that this is included here and I
talk about this in that episode as well, is because
in this first paragraph from the Guardian dot com, and
this is titled Indigenous Knowledge, bravery, vigilance, How young siblings
survived in Colombia's Perilous Jungle. This says Fatima Valencia, the
grandmother of the four children rescued on Friday after forty
days alone in the Colombian Amazon, had a simple explanation
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for why they had taken so long to be found
despite a huge search effort. They were being carried through
the jungle by Duende, a leprechaun like mythological creature said
to roam the forests. As more details emerged about the
four children's incredible feet of survival, it has become clear
that the ancestral knowledge of the eldest child played a
vital role in keeping her younger siblings, including a baby
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who turned one during the ordeal, alive for forty days.
She was thirteen years old. This and the youngest child
was a baby who wasn't even one when the crash happened,
turned one within those forty days. This says thirteen year
old Leslie Mukutui was able to identify edible fruits, find
suitable water, and avoid dangerous plants and animals, thanks in
part to knowledge handed down to her by Valencia, the grandmother,
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which is terrifying, Like this poor girl she kept her
siblings alive while keeping somehow her head on her shoulders
throughout this whole thing, because like there's so many dangerous things,
like not only is the terrain itself dangerous, but the animals,
the wildlife. If you eat or drink the wrong thing,
you can get very sick, possibly die, Like, oh my god,
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it's wild how this happened. But there's a hyperlink in
the article from Redmass dot Co and it says there's
a goblin circling them. Grandmother of the missing children in
god get that, Maria Fatima Valencia, says that a natural
force has prevented miners from settling in one place. And
this is translated from Spanish to English. So I'm reading
this now for the first time, so hopefully it translated well.
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But yeah, so this is saying how during the search
they had speakers and as they were flying above the
jungle and traversing through it, over the loud speakers, they
were calling to the children and telling them to not move,
to stay where they were, to stop walking, to just
stay put and that they would be found, and so
their grandmother was. She then went on in an interview
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and she said that, and this is an English it says,
at this point, it's not that the children are walking,
it's that some of those wild animals or the dlendas
must be carrying them, which is why they're not sitting still.
And so you could see this as the blenda being
mischievous and prolonging the children's rescue, or that the dlenda
was moving them away from danger. And so yes, it
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did prolong their rescue or their like discovery or however
you want to weard that, But like what could have
happened had they stayed put in one spot? What would
they have encountered an animal or like, I don't know,
Like again, it's just wild, and that from what I
had read before on this story, the grandmother looked at
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it in a positive light. That she was like, you know,
the the jungle returned our children to us, and that
this is one that kept them alive. The next link
that I have here, this is from owlcation dot com,
and this is fifteen fascinating facts about Elduende, the legend
of Latin America's mysterious goblin we're going to read through these,
it says, unraveling the mysteries behind Eldwende. In Latin American folklore,
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Edwenda is a mythical creature known for its mischievous behavior
and ability to bring either good or bad luck to
anyone it encounters. This folklore has captivated the imagination of
countless people and children for generations, blending elements of good, evil,
and mischief into one intriguing legend. Standing typically between one
to three feet tall, these mysterious beings are said to
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inhabit homes, forests, and caves, playing roles that range from
protective house spirits to malevolent tricksters. Okay, so if the
wends are protecting the house, they're welcome. But I don't
want any tricks in here. Margaret already does enough tricks.
This continues, with origins dating back to pre Columbian times
and later influenced by Spanish colonization, when they continues to
fascinate audiences across Latin America and beyond. Let's take a
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closer look at this enigmatic feature, and then, of course
the fifteen legends. So are the fifteen facts that says
Number one. Origins in Spanish and indigenous folklore. The word
d when they comes from the Spanish phrase dueno de gasa. Again,
we know that part owner of the house, reflecting their
traditional role as house spirits. However, the legend also intertwines
with indigenous beliefs, incorporating elements of nature, spirits, and guardian entities.
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Two varied appearances across regions. Dwenda's appearance varies widely. In Guatemala,
they wear large hats and red clothing, while in Mexico
they're depicted as small, elderly men with white beards. Some
versions describe them with backward facing feet to confuse trackers,
so much like La Siguapa, which you've also don on
the show, she has those backwards facing feet and you
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can never really tell where she's going, where she's been
because of those tracks. Number three from protector to trickster.
Originally considered household protectors in indigenous traditions, Luenda's image shifted
during Spanish colonization, merging with European Goblin folklore to become
more ambiguous, often helpful, sometimes malevolent. It's interesting that with
colonialism it took on negative characteristics, whereas before they were
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seen as household protectors or like protectors of wildlife and animals.
But then the Spaniards come in and then it's like,
oh no, it's an evil little thing. It's all evil,
right anyway. Number four guardian against evil. In some regions,
Adwenda is invoked for protection against evil forces. Respectful offerings
are set to earn its favor and bring good fortune. Again,
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so things like the candy. Maybe if you're luring it
out of the house, you're saying you can stand the property,
not in my walls, but on the property and protected,
and here's your candy. Right. It's interesting that it is
actually invoked because everything that I've heard before is people
are trying whatever they can to keep them away, right.
Number five malevolent prankster. Conversely, other tales painted Whenda as
a chaotic trickster who delights in leading travelers astray, hiding objects,
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or even abducting children. So these are the things that
I heard more often growing up. Was that really not
the leading travelers astray? I heard more of that as
I started doing Susto. But the thing about hiding things,
moving things, and abducting children, that was more commonly what
I heard growing up, And what I've heard other people
have also been told right shape shifting abilities. This one
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is not very common to me at least. One of
when Tha's most fear traits is its ability to transform
its appearance, allowing it to evade detection or lure unsuspecting victims. Interesting,
So that's how it lures people into wilderness or wherever
it's taking them, by transforming into someone or something that
they would seemingly trust. Right. Seven connection to nature. In
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some traditions of when this serves as a guardian of forests, rivers,
and mountains, punishing those who disrespect nature. Again, that one's
very common to hear. Eight fascination with children of Gwende's
particularly drawn to children. Some legends say they teach music
to gifted youths, while others warn they lure them away
from home. So it really it's like, you know, there's
are there. They're people humans, I don't know they're they're humanoids.
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They have personalities, they have moods, I guess, and depending
on those moods is what they do. Right. Nine Backward
footed trickery. Again, this kind of this one's repeat. It
says many stories described with wend with backwards facing feet
a feature meant to deceive those who try to follow
its tracks. Ten Colonial influence on the legend. Spanish colonizers
reshaped indigenous beliefs. We mentioned this on already blending them
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with the European folklore to create the modern, multifaceted Alduende Eleven.
Symbol of resilience of Whende represents adaptability of embodying the
survival of cultural traditions after colonization and change. Twelve Artistic
and cultural impact. The legend has inspired countless artworks like
Goya's Duen, Decito's literature, and even modern media. Its place
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in Latin American identity thirteen. Role in spiritual practices some
communities in vocal in rituals for protection or guidance, merging
folkal with spiritual traditions. Again, sorry to have ever wrote this,
but like lots of repeats happening here. Fourteen tells of
redemption me right, because I'm a perfect writer anyway. Fourteen
tells of redemption certain stories depicted when they evolving from
a trickster into a benevolent figure, highlighting its complex morality
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that one's a repeat Sorry fifteen and enduring mystery despite
centuries of storytelling of the one that remains an enigmatic
figure and its legends evolve with each generation. That could
have been ten facts about other than that, I'm just
saying I don't know. I'm just saying sorry and moving
on to the last source. This is from eendsh academic
dot com or academic dictionaries and Encyclopedias. I was really
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interested in this picture that's on here, and I'll put
this up here in the video. It says purported when
they on classical period maya pottery. This was in a
cave in Belize, and this is why I included that
small detail about a piece of pottery in the story.
I just wanted to read this entry. It says Duende
is a fairy or goblin like mythological creature from Iberian, Latin, American,
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and Filipino folklore. So Filipinos also have their own version
of it, which again I think I've spoken about this
wanting to cover more Filipino folklore because different lands, same colonizers, right,
those are my primos, my primes. So I don't know,
y' all, let me know what you think about me
dipping my claws into the Filipino folklore because there are
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some really cool legends over there as well. This continues
while its nature varies throughout Spain, Portugal, Spanish and Portuguese
speaking America, and the Philippines. Analogs from other cultures include
the Danish Norwegian nisse, the French lutin and nane rouge,
the Irish clurichon, leprechaun and far daring, the Manx fenadiary
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and moiinger veggie, the jay veggie veggae veggie, I'm sorry,
I don't know these words, the Scottish slash, English brownie,
the Welsh twilith tag, and the Swedish tomtes So all
over the world, dwend is all over the world. The
dwende is for real, mister worldwide, mister three h five dale.
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The etymology, let me zoom in on this, because it's
tiny text. The etymology of the word when there reinforces
the equivalents to the latter dompte from dompt equals home,
and that's from Sweden dompte. As it shares the same
origin as a Spanish word, dwen your owner. As Federico
Garcia lorca uses the term, it seems closer to a
fairy as a realm of being dwendez may also have
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some traits similar to goblins and cobalds, so again in
that realm of fay right. The word is often considered
to be the Spanish equivalent of the English word sprite
or the Japanese word yokai, and is used as an
umbrella term for any fairy like beings such as goblins, pixies,
and elves. I don't know, I've only really seen dwende
being used for a very specific type of entity. It's
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always as this little humanoid being. It's not as like
a flying pixie or fairy or like even elves, So
I don't know, it's interesting that it's putting that on
it here. Anyway, this continues. The word is also used
in Portuguese folklore, being used to describe goblins, pixies, brownies,
and leprechauns. They're believed to be of a small statue
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wearing big hats, whistling a mystical song, the whistling there's
always whistling right while walking in the forests. Using their talent,
they are believed to lure young girls to the forest,
causing them to lose their way home. Conversely, in some
Latin cultures, the duendees are believed to be the helpers
of people who get lost in the forest, so they
could find their way home, like the children of the jungle.
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In the folklore of the Central American country of Belize,
particularly amongst the countries African slash Carab descended Creole and
Guttifuna populations, when they are thought of as a forest
spirit called who lacks thumbs again, and hide your thumbs
because of the thought that when that sees them snap
like weapons, he's gonna break your thumbs off in his bed.
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Which also, I loved that movie. Go watch it if
you haven't seen it. Gladys is kind of an icon,
even though she's evilntinues. In Hispanic folklore of Mexico and
the American Southwest, the wendas are known as gnome like
creatures who live inside the walls of homes, especially in
the bedroom walls of young children. Oh, I don't like
the way that sounds. I'm gonna rip my horns off.
I hated that. Ugh they attempt to. Oh this part
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is for reaky. I never heard this growing up. And
this is why my feet are covered. It's not because
I think something's gonna grab them from under the well.
I guess technically yes, but it's not what you think
is gonna grab your feet. It's the Glendez because they
attempt to clip the toenails of unkempt children, often leading
to the mistaken removal of entire toes. Y'all get your
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pedicures or the lendas will steal your toes. If your
toes are looking crunchy and nasty, they're doing you a
favoring chopping them off. This continues. They're also known for
taking items from young children. They have also been able
to barter with the mother of young children so that
they can take the child and have them to eat.
Imagine imagine your parent making a deal with a dwende.
Don't worry about the deal with the devil. They're making
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a deal with the to be like, what can I
give you so I can have your kid for dinner.
My mom probably would just give me away for free.
She'd be like, take him please. This continues. They appear
at night when children are at play with a ball
and watch the children and later make their appearance and
confront the children. I don't know if it's specifically kids
playing with the ball. Maybe maybe that's this is just
an example, but yeah, they they watch children playing and
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then they later try and take them out or get
their toes. I don't know, it says Chamorodo. People believe
in tells of monas, duendez and other spirits Dwende. According
to the Chamoro English Dictionary by Donald's topping betrol Ogo
m Bernavita donka is a goblin, elf, ghost or spook
in the form of a dwarf, a mischievous spirit which
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hides or takes small children. I feel like that's trying
to be like, that's just saying like, okay, anything spooky
is dwende. I feel like that's that's there's there's too
much reach going on there. I don't know. This wraps
up and it says. Filipinos also believe in Duende, which
is spelled with a W so instead of d u
e nd, it's d w e n d which frequently
live in rocks and caves, old trees, unvisited and dark
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parts of houses, or in ant hills, where they are
called Nuno sapunso or old man of the mound. Did
I say that, okay, nunu sapunsoun sauno. I don't know
they are either categorized as good or evil depending on
their color white or black, respectively, and often play with children.
So that's kind of like, god, what what was this for?
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Which episode was that I did an episode on this
dog or this type of these type of dogs they're
like hell hounds, and they say depending on the color
of the dog, it's not lob like the werewolf. What
was it? Okay, y'all, let me know in a comet
or something what it was. But yeah, this the idea
of the colors we're representing good and evil is an
interesting attribute to the Duendez. But that's all for the sources.
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And then you look over at whoever you're with and
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We went back to sleep, and that morning we got
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know pretty much all of this. But I got a tattoo.
I got my birthday tattoo, which is right here if
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tattoo of this sword, which is I have it right
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That I'm constantly talking about, can I get in frame
stories that must not die? So you can see that
right here. I'm holding it up as well. But I
also do a side by side in the YouTube vlog
as well, So very excited it's healing well. The artist
Neto Velasco which I said his name wrong in the
vlog like, but he's an amazing artist. He has a
very specific style that I think he like coined the
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phrase for this. He came up with this. It's bubblegum
traditional and it looks really cool. So this is not
in his style, but I really like his artwork and
I wanted to get something by him regardless, So this
is kind of of like, I'll do this first with him,
and I really want to go back for something else
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He'll all the way first before I go and get
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and how we get really busy with live events this
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time of year, which I'm so excited for, and so
right now I have three events on the books so far.
I think it's the tenth of the eleventh and the
thirty first, and that would be doing a talk and
a movie night at hont Happy Books in Lockhart, which
is one of my favorite bookstores in the world. If
you haven't had the chance to go, it is a
horror book shop. It's so fun. And then I also
have the Austin Public Library Campfire Stories, and then the
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night Owl podcast Spirit Social on Halloween Night. I haven't
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I will find something to do. Okay, So very excited
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Speaking of books and bookings, the Susto spell Book Club
is it's still in full swing. We're meeting at the
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end of this month on August thirty first, which is Sunday,
at one pm Central Time, to discuss The Witches of
Aposso by Luis Hadamio. You have about a week and
a half from today, which is Thursday, to finish the book.
But you can do it. I believe in you. I
am not done with it, and I remember at the
beginning of the month thinking, oh, this book is shorter
than what we read last month. I'll finish it really quick. No, no,
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I haven't finished it really quick. So listen, we can
do it. We have a week and a half. It's
like two hundred something pages. I believe, so we got this.
We can do it, and I am enjoying it. I'm
just like I've been you know how I am. I'm
doing a thousand things at once, so please you still
have time to join us for the discussion. I will
be sharing the zoom link closer to the date like
I did for the last one. And remember, the book
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Me I am like a zero spoilers please kind of person.
I don't even want to know if it was good
or bad. I just want to go into it completely unaware.
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So hey, to each their own. I'm very happy to
the folks that showed up last time and participated in
the discussion. It was so great and I'm very excited
for this next one. Again. August thirty First, that's Sunday
at one pm Central. Before we get into today's episode,
I actually want to respond to some Spotify comments because
I do respond on the app as well, So if
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So this is from Lauren, and Lauren said, I found
this podcast from TikTok and I'm so happy that I did. Lauren,
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I'm so happy that you found it as well. They
say there isn't a transcript, so I couldn't find it.
But what is the book called? Mentioned towards the end
that quote needed to be dominated. I'm very intrigued, not
to own lol, but for research. So Lauren left this
comment on the episode which is the interview with Alexis
and Eric from City Alchemists. And the book that Lauren
(06:28):
was talking about was the Book of Saint Cyprian, and
I have a link here that I wanted to read
about it. This is from archive dot org on the
Book of Saint Cyprien. It says this book is a
massive occult work, complete with images from original texts, copious
amounts of notes and references, citations, and best of all,
information that has only been available in the original Portuguese text.
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So this book is translated from Portuguese to English. The
author was granted unprecedented access to private collections and study
the original texts in great detail. He has taken everything
he could from them and compiled what we believe to
be the single greatest reference on the subject of the
magic of Saint Cyprian. So if you haven't heard that episode,
I will of course link it in this episode's notes
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that you can go check it out or you can
go look for it again. That is the interview that
I did with Alexis and Eric from City Alchemist, which
was a great interview. And yeah, that book. I have
a story that I told about trying to purchase that
book that you can hear in that episode. The next
commet that I have here is from SIMBA one seven
to three and they left this on the episode about
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the dot em gap. They said, this was a great episode.
Thank you. With everything going on, this episode was needed.
It's unfortunate that the people who need to listen to
our struggle don't bother to learn. But I'm glad you
did that episode because it can change someone's mind about us.
Thank you so much. That means a lot. That episode
was kind of rough to put together, just because it's
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so it's it's it's reality. It's real again. Obviously, the
story that we wrote is a fiction, but it's based
on accounts of real life events of things that people
went through and go through, and so yes, it was
really hard. And if you do remember that episode, I
did also mention that released a little bit after my birthday.
A couple of days after and we ran a fundraiser
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you all know that we actually raised three hundred dollars.
The goal was five hundred dollars, and if you remember,
I said anything would be greatly appreciated and would mean
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have left your name so I could read it out
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I donate to gofundmes and stuff like that, I will
do it anonymously if I remember too, So thank you
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so much to everybody for raising three hundred dollars with
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I guess we can call it outside of the that
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fundraiser is done, please consider donating to Daughters Without Borders,
because again they're doing amazing work all over the world,
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including at the exit of the that end Gap. So again,
thank you so so much. That was It's so touching
that that that we did that, that we pulled that off.
So with that said, we will go ahead and move
on into the episode on a high note. And this episode,
as you can see by the title, is a resurrected episode.
So I've done this twice. I did this with the
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episode of La and the Girl who Danced with the Devil,
and basically when I resurrect an episode, these are the
earliest episodes, like the very first episodes. I think Glendez
was number three that I did. And the reason I'm
doing it is because it's been six years of doing
this and I feel, at least I feel even though
I am still growing and learning that I have grown
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and learned a lot about putting these episodes together for you. Also,
I'm very excited to bring new skills, whether that be
with production, editing, writing, to go ahead and resurrect the
story of Gonds with you. So we're gonna go ahead
and get into that. So, without further ado, please enjoy
this resurrected episode of Gwendez. Mateo had just turned thirteen
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at the start of summer when his family moved. He
was having a difficult time adjusting from his high energy,
bustling city life to a quiet and sluggish rural setting.
He was alone in a new place. Everyone he knew
now hours away, and would remain that way until he
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could meet kids his own age when he started school
in the fall. After spending all morning and packing his
things in his new room, Mateo decided to take a
break and explore the family's new home. It was older
and rustic compared to his family's apartment in the city.
The floors creaked with nearly every step, and a strong
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enough gust of wind could shake the whole house. He
eventually made his way outside. The cozy four bedroom sat
isolated between a dirt road and a cornfield. The nearest
neighbor was a ten minute drive away. Mateo circled the
house until he stood at the edge of their backyard,
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connected to a field. Early in the harvest season. The
cornfield stood tall and inviting, providing shade and a break
from the midsummer sun. He felt drawn to enter the field.
Something other than the cool soil called to him there,
but he couldn't quite place what it was. Deep in thought,
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and now a few feet into the field, he heard
a sudden shuffling to his right. Mateo jumped to attention
and spun around to nothing. Maybe the wind was playing
tricks on him, rustling the cornstalks. Then he heard it again.
This time he could see movement ahead, certain it was
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a stray dog. He ran inside to grab leftovers and
ran back outside, hopeful to make a new friend, but
there was no sign of the dog u or anything
for that matter. Mateo loved animals and couldn't bear the
idea of a hungry pup, so he ventured back into
the field in search of a potential new pet. After
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an hour or two, he gave up on his search
and devised a plan to leave a trail of food
leading back to the house. Before he made his way back,
something in the dirt caught his eye. It looked like
a piece of pottery laying in the soil. With the
sun setting, he decided he'd inspect it back home. That night,
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Mateo was woken up by the sound of something shattering
in his room. He quickly turned the lights on and
looked around for what broke, but there was nothing. The
next day, after finishing unpacking his things, he remembered the
piece of pottery he found. He searched his room high
and low, and the rest of the house, but could
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not find it. His parents hadn't seen it either. To
the supermarket, but Theo went back into his room with
new batteries for his CD player, but he couldn't find
his headphones. He was sure he left them on his bed,
but now he was confused and frustrated. He settled for
watching a movie in the living room, and his eyes
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quickly grew heavy. In a snap, he opened his eyes
to darkness. It was the middle of the night, he
realized he dozed off. As he was about to move
to his bedroom. The television turned on seemingly by itself.
Full volume. Startled and worried that he would wake his parents,
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he scrambled to shut it off. He sat silently for
a moment, keeping an ear to the house to make
sure he hadn't woken anyone up. After a minute or two,
he started walking to his room again when he heard something,
a faint thudding, like something was moving in step with him.
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He took a few more steps and realized the the
sound was behind him. He ran to the nearest flight
switch in the kitchen. Just as he started to calm
himself and think maybe he was still dreaming, he heard
the pitter patter again, like tiny footsteps. Panicked and paralyzed,
he managed to slowly turn around in the glow of
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the stove top light. Standing before him at knee level,
Madeo wasn't sure what he was looking at, a small
humanoid being. It flashed a menacing grin full of razor
sharp teeth and Madeo's headphones around its neck Matheo panicked
as this creature rushed towards him. The only other exit
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that wasn't blocked by that thing was the back door
in the kitchen. He ran out of the house and
into the darkness. He's not sure why he chose it,
but felt like something was guiding him into the cornfield
against all logic. Screamed for his parents, but his voice
was muffled by the rattling of the corn stalks. He
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tripped and lost his sense of direction. All he could
see now was the stalks and the dark sky. He
heaved in the thick aroma of damp corn, trying to
regain his composure. Then he could hear the stalks cracking
closer and closer until he was finally face to face
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with the duende. Welcome back, well friends, Okay, thank you
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so much for listening to that story. The first source
that we have here is of course, a good old
Wikipedia link, and this is just a really quick rundown
of what a dwenda is. A very simple definition that
it has here on Wikipedia is that a dwenda is
a humanoid figure of folklore with variations from Iberian, Ibero American,
and Latin American cultures, comparable to dwarves, gnomes, or leprechauns.
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So dwenda's definitely fall in the they category, right. A
lot of people compare them to gnomes or goblins or elves.
Those are usually the big three that we hear, right,
The etymology of the word wende is that in Spanish,
duende originated as a contraction of the phrase dueno de gasa,
effectively master of the house, or alternatively derived from some
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similar mythical being of the Visigoth or Swabian culture, given
its comparable looks with the tone of the Swedish language.
Conceptualized as a mischievous spirit inhabiting a dwelling, they are
fay also in the sense that they fall into the
category of like wilderness or forest dweller, or like wildlife protector.
They're normally seen in the wild right like surrounded by nature. However,
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a lot of people also say that they live in
the walls of people's houses. I've heard other lore. This
may come up in some of the other sources I
can't remember. One way to get rid of them is
to lure them out with candy or shiny things or
like gifts. Basically, so you open your back door and
you walk through the house. I've heard with like candy,
like a handful of candy. You walk through the house
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and then you throw it out the back door, and
you don't see them, but they they run out the door,
chasing the candy and then you close the door behind
that right, so you give them the opportunity to exit
with a gift. They're the opposite of a polite house guest.
Instead of breaking a gift, they take something right. And
they're also known to hide things. That's that's how I
grew up knowing what a dwnda was. It was always
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said that if something went missing, or it was moved
or misplaced, it was a dwen them messing with you,
because yes, they are mischievous little things. So yeah, every
time I lose something, I'm like, damn it, there was
a blende. I've also heard that saying the word dwende,
which I've now said about one hundred times, summons them.
So I just want to preface. I mean, it's too
late to preface, but I want to say it now.
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Lay down the boundary that sorry, y'all are not welcome
in here. There is a beautiful creek right outside her apartment.
Go live there. There's plenty of stuff for you to
have out there, not in here. And we have Margaret.
She will I'm sorry, but I feel like Margaret could
take a gunde. She's she won't fall for their tricks,
and she's got razors on her hands, so and if
they mess with her, I will go after them. This continues.
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Spanish folklore is rich intels and legends about various types
of Duendez, and then there's a bunch of names for
how they're known here, and this says like different names
were comparable beings. Are Anhannas, Buzgosos, Dianos, Ernanos, elfos, Adas, Nomos, Noberus, Dentirujus,
Trasos or Trasgus, Traslius, Trentis, Tronantes, vent dolinis, and others.
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In some regions of Spain, Duendez may have other names,
like I said Earlieros and Galicia, Foyet and Catalogna Irak
in the Basket Country, and Nevara Trasgus in Asturias, Menutos
or Mendos in Via the Echo and in other parts
of Atto, Araguon and Menge's south of Spain. So there's
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like all these different names for them, and this Wikipedia
entry goes through them. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen four. There's like fifteen different names for Duendez that
that they go through here. So it's interesting that they
kind of go by different names, and I'm like, I'm
sure it's the same creature. They're just again known by
many names. The next link that I have here is Thede.
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This is just a specific one that I wanted to
talk about, because again there's all these different names for them,
but this one says that the tende or del monte,
which is master of the mont or the master of
the forest right, is a supernatural creature appearing in cultural
folklore stories, mostly evident in Creole cultures. That Dadwende is
considered a powerful spirit that protects animals and the jungle.
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Though it is believed to lack thumbs, there are many
stories that have been passed on from generation to generation
to warn against this spirit. This creature has appeared on
a postage stamp of Belie as a part of a
series of Belizean folklore. The Nametadwende comes from the Yukatek
Maya word tata, meaning grandfather or old, and the word
duende is Spanish for goblin, so an old goblin right.
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This Spanish term duende originated as a contradiction of the
phrase dueno gasa or duen the gasa duende possessor of
a house and was originally conceptualized again as a mischievous
spirit inhabiting a house. It is said that if you
encounter him in the forest, you must show your hands
with the thumbs hidden, or he will break them off.
Yet he is regarded as a caring spirit, so basically
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they're jealous of thumbs, so don't let them see your thumbs.
And if you're watching the video, I'm hiding my thumbs
here or he will break them off. I want to
see this postage stamp really quick. Oh yes, I've seen
these before, I remember. Yeah, this is a it's a
Christmas nineteen ninety one folklore stamp from Belize. Oh this
is on eBay. I kind of want it. It's not
Oh damn it, it was sold. Okay, if anybody sees a
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gwen that, I'll put the picture up here so you
can see it as well. This folklore Christmas nineteen ninety
one Duende postage stamp. Please send me the link or
buy it for me and send it to me. That
is so cool. Okay, yeah, I definitely I need that
for sure. Okay, moving on to the next source that
I have here. This is actually a painting and this
painting comes up a lot when you search Dwendez. This
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is a painting called Gaprico's Hobgoblins or Duen Decitos from
seventeen ninety nine from one of my favorite artists, which
is Francisco Dagoya. This artist famously did the Saturn Devouring
his Son painting, and he also has a ton of
kind of like really macabre, creepy paintings that I'm very
into because they're so cool. But here on this entry
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on nortonsimon dot org from the Norton Simon Museum, this
says this image is a thinly veiled attack on the
corruption and decadence of the Spanish Church. The paintings appear,
by the way in this video. In this print, clergy
are portrayed as tesque hobgoblins or mean spirited angels who
fell from heaven with Lucifer. I'll also be posting this
on social media. This continues. The central figures, sharp, jagged teeth,
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and enormous hand referred to the powerful grip the church
had on the country's wealth and its willingness to flaunt it. Now,
when I read this, this made me think of everything
that I've been told about Dwendez, which is that they
like to steal or take things. And so I thought
that this is really interesting because I wonder how long
that characteristic has been attributed to Dwendez and if it's
gone all the way since this seventeen ninety nine. That's
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the attitude people had about the church, at least in
this era and in this place, was that the church
is just taking. They're just like Dwendez. They just they
just come in and they steal, only take whatever they want,
which is kind of funny. Right. There's the second part
to this painting that I wanted to talk about from
a different source. This is from Fundacion Goya Andarragon dot
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e s. Which sounds like it's like a the Goya
Foundation and Aragon, but this is about the wendsitos. I
wanted to read the artistic analysis from this because that
is very interesting. It talks more about that in a
little bit more detail. It says three grotesque goblins dressed
in monk's habits are holding glasses of wine. The one
standing on the right of the print appears to belong
to a barefoot order and compared to the others, has
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a more taciturn and reserved attitude. The one in the
center gesticulates, displaying an enormous monstrous hand that bellies his
small size or belies his belies bellies b E l
I E s belies y also matterpronounce that his small size.
He laughs freely and reveals his battered sharp teeth. The
one on the left side of the print is sitting
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on the floor and appears to be deeply focused on
the glass he holds in one of his hands. The
scene takes place in a dark vaulted space, perhaps a cellar.
At the top of the room's far side, a barred
window opens. Using fine aquatint, Guya creates midtnes that contrast
with the light filtering through the bars. The room is
in semi darkness, and the painter chose not to give
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priority to any of the three figures, who are treated equally.
The National Library the Manuscript describes this scene very well,
quote the true goblins of this world are the priests
and friars who eat and drink at our expense. The
church or the clergy has sharp teeth and a monstrous
long right hand for grasping the barefoot friar more prudish
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covers the glass of wine, but the shod friar doesn't
mess around. He pours soup into wine and munches happily.
So definitely like a hardcore critique of the church, which
I think is valid and was extremely valid at that time,
like the church had way more power than which honestly
like it still has too much power now. But whatever,
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that's a whole different conversation, I guess. So this is
a really and this is why I like Guoya as
an artist because of these critiques that he did that
I'm sure were very, very controversial at the time, but
that people were probably like glad somebody was pointing out right.
This continues in the second half of the eighteenth century.
The word guende was used to refer to friars, so
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it could be interpreted that with this print, the artist
is resuming his criticism of the clergy, who in this
case are drinking the wine they earn from the town's tithe.
And the tithe is what people pay to the church.
So when you go and you give money the collection basket,
you're tithing. That is your tithe. The painter questions the
usefulness of this class, its role in a society forced
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to maintain it. No matter what. Yeah, and then this
finishes up here. The deformed faces of the engravings subjects
are clearly reminiscent of the characters found in the print
The Family of the Rustic Bertoldo, an anonymous work from
the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. In these cases,
the heads are disproportionately large for the bodies, a deformation
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also evident in Buen Desitos. So yeah, this is a
really cool piece of artwork and commentary on the church
and the church's power, which honestly I still think is relevant. Taxes,
churches whatever I said it. The next door is here.
This is actually an episode that I've done on Sustal
since originally doing the when this episode in This is
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about the children of the Jungle, and there will be
a link in the description of this episode as well.
And this is the story of the children who survived
a plane crash in the Amazon jungle and then survived
It was forty nights in the jungle. Again, a group
of children. I think I want to say it was
three children and the oldest one was like twelve or thirteen.
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But the reason that this is included here and I
talk about this in that episode as well, is because
in this first paragraph from the Guardian dot com, and
this is titled Indigenous Knowledge, bravery, vigilance, How young siblings
survived in Colombia's Perilous Jungle. This says Fatima Valencia, the
grandmother of the four children rescued on Friday after forty
days alone in the Colombian Amazon, had a simple explanation
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for why they had taken so long to be found
despite a huge search effort. They were being carried through
the jungle by Duende, a leprechaun like mythological creature said
to roam the forests. As more details emerged about the
four children's incredible feet of survival, it has become clear
that the ancestral knowledge of the eldest child played a
vital role in keeping her younger siblings, including a baby
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who turned one during the ordeal, alive for forty days.
She was thirteen years old. This and the youngest child
was a baby who wasn't even one when the crash happened,
turned one within those forty days. This says thirteen year
old Leslie Mukutui was able to identify edible fruits, find
suitable water, and avoid dangerous plants and animals, thanks in
part to knowledge handed down to her by Valencia, the grandmother,
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which is terrifying, Like this poor girl she kept her
siblings alive while keeping somehow her head on her shoulders
throughout this whole thing, because like there's so many dangerous things,
like not only is the terrain itself dangerous, but the animals,
the wildlife. If you eat or drink the wrong thing,
you can get very sick, possibly die, Like, oh my god,
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it's wild how this happened. But there's a hyperlink in
the article from Redmass dot Co and it says there's
a goblin circling them. Grandmother of the missing children in
god get that, Maria Fatima Valencia, says that a natural
force has prevented miners from settling in one place. And
this is translated from Spanish to English. So I'm reading
this now for the first time, so hopefully it translated well.
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But yeah, so this is saying how during the search
they had speakers and as they were flying above the
jungle and traversing through it, over the loud speakers, they
were calling to the children and telling them to not move,
to stay where they were, to stop walking, to just
stay put and that they would be found, and so
their grandmother was. She then went on in an interview
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and she said that, and this is an English it says,
at this point, it's not that the children are walking,
it's that some of those wild animals or the dlendas
must be carrying them, which is why they're not sitting still.
And so you could see this as the blenda being
mischievous and prolonging the children's rescue, or that the dlenda
was moving them away from danger. And so yes, it
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did prolong their rescue or their like discovery or however
you want to weard that, But like what could have
happened had they stayed put in one spot? What would
they have encountered an animal or like, I don't know,
Like again, it's just wild, and that from what I
had read before on this story, the grandmother looked at
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it in a positive light. That she was like, you know,
the the jungle returned our children to us, and that
this is one that kept them alive. The next link
that I have here, this is from owlcation dot com,
and this is fifteen fascinating facts about Elduende, the legend
of Latin America's mysterious goblin we're going to read through these,
it says, unraveling the mysteries behind Eldwende. In Latin American folklore,
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Edwenda is a mythical creature known for its mischievous behavior
and ability to bring either good or bad luck to
anyone it encounters. This folklore has captivated the imagination of
countless people and children for generations, blending elements of good, evil,
and mischief into one intriguing legend. Standing typically between one
to three feet tall, these mysterious beings are said to
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inhabit homes, forests, and caves, playing roles that range from
protective house spirits to malevolent tricksters. Okay, so if the
wends are protecting the house, they're welcome. But I don't
want any tricks in here. Margaret already does enough tricks.
This continues, with origins dating back to pre Columbian times
and later influenced by Spanish colonization, when they continues to
fascinate audiences across Latin America and beyond. Let's take a
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closer look at this enigmatic feature, and then, of course
the fifteen legends. So are the fifteen facts that says
Number one. Origins in Spanish and indigenous folklore. The word
d when they comes from the Spanish phrase dueno de gasa. Again,
we know that part owner of the house, reflecting their
traditional role as house spirits. However, the legend also intertwines
with indigenous beliefs, incorporating elements of nature, spirits, and guardian entities.
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Two varied appearances across regions. Dwenda's appearance varies widely. In Guatemala,
they wear large hats and red clothing, while in Mexico
they're depicted as small, elderly men with white beards. Some
versions describe them with backward facing feet to confuse trackers,
so much like La Siguapa, which you've also don on
the show, she has those backwards facing feet and you
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can never really tell where she's going, where she's been
because of those tracks. Number three from protector to trickster.
Originally considered household protectors in indigenous traditions, Luenda's image shifted
during Spanish colonization, merging with European Goblin folklore to become
more ambiguous, often helpful, sometimes malevolent. It's interesting that with
colonialism it took on negative characteristics, whereas before they were
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seen as household protectors or like protectors of wildlife and animals.
But then the Spaniards come in and then it's like,
oh no, it's an evil little thing. It's all evil,
right anyway. Number four guardian against evil. In some regions,
Adwenda is invoked for protection against evil forces. Respectful offerings
are set to earn its favor and bring good fortune. Again,
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so things like the candy. Maybe if you're luring it
out of the house, you're saying you can stand the property,
not in my walls, but on the property and protected,
and here's your candy. Right. It's interesting that it is
actually invoked because everything that I've heard before is people
are trying whatever they can to keep them away, right.
Number five malevolent prankster. Conversely, other tales painted Whenda as
a chaotic trickster who delights in leading travelers astray, hiding objects,
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or even abducting children. So these are the things that
I heard more often growing up. Was that really not
the leading travelers astray? I heard more of that as
I started doing Susto. But the thing about hiding things,
moving things, and abducting children, that was more commonly what
I heard growing up, And what I've heard other people
have also been told right shape shifting abilities. This one
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is not very common to me at least. One of
when Tha's most fear traits is its ability to transform
its appearance, allowing it to evade detection or lure unsuspecting victims. Interesting,
So that's how it lures people into wilderness or wherever
it's taking them, by transforming into someone or something that
they would seemingly trust. Right. Seven connection to nature. In
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some traditions of when this serves as a guardian of forests, rivers,
and mountains, punishing those who disrespect nature. Again, that one's
very common to hear. Eight fascination with children of Gwende's
particularly drawn to children. Some legends say they teach music
to gifted youths, while others warn they lure them away
from home. So it really it's like, you know, there's
are there. They're people humans, I don't know they're they're humanoids.
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They have personalities, they have moods, I guess, and depending
on those moods is what they do. Right. Nine Backward
footed trickery. Again, this kind of this one's repeat. It
says many stories described with wend with backwards facing feet
a feature meant to deceive those who try to follow
its tracks. Ten Colonial influence on the legend. Spanish colonizers
reshaped indigenous beliefs. We mentioned this on already blending them
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with the European folklore to create the modern, multifaceted Alduende Eleven.
Symbol of resilience of Whende represents adaptability of embodying the
survival of cultural traditions after colonization and change. Twelve Artistic
and cultural impact. The legend has inspired countless artworks like
Goya's Duen, Decito's literature, and even modern media. Its place
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in Latin American identity thirteen. Role in spiritual practices some
communities in vocal in rituals for protection or guidance, merging
folkal with spiritual traditions. Again, sorry to have ever wrote this,
but like lots of repeats happening here. Fourteen tells of
redemption me right, because I'm a perfect writer anyway. Fourteen
tells of redemption certain stories depicted when they evolving from
a trickster into a benevolent figure, highlighting its complex morality
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that one's a repeat Sorry fifteen and enduring mystery despite
centuries of storytelling of the one that remains an enigmatic
figure and its legends evolve with each generation. That could
have been ten facts about other than that, I'm just
saying I don't know. I'm just saying sorry and moving
on to the last source. This is from eendsh academic
dot com or academic dictionaries and Encyclopedias. I was really
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interested in this picture that's on here, and I'll put
this up here in the video. It says purported when
they on classical period maya pottery. This was in a
cave in Belize, and this is why I included that
small detail about a piece of pottery in the story.
I just wanted to read this entry. It says Duende
is a fairy or goblin like mythological creature from Iberian, Latin, American,
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and Filipino folklore. So Filipinos also have their own version
of it, which again I think I've spoken about this
wanting to cover more Filipino folklore because different lands, same colonizers, right,
those are my primos, my primes. So I don't know,
y' all, let me know what you think about me
dipping my claws into the Filipino folklore because there are
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some really cool legends over there as well. This continues
while its nature varies throughout Spain, Portugal, Spanish and Portuguese
speaking America, and the Philippines. Analogs from other cultures include
the Danish Norwegian nisse, the French lutin and nane rouge,
the Irish clurichon, leprechaun and far daring, the Manx fenadiary
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and moiinger veggie, the jay veggie veggae veggie, I'm sorry,
I don't know these words, the Scottish slash, English brownie,
the Welsh twilith tag, and the Swedish tomtes So all
over the world, dwend is all over the world. The
dwende is for real, mister worldwide, mister three h five dale.
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The etymology, let me zoom in on this, because it's
tiny text. The etymology of the word when there reinforces
the equivalents to the latter dompte from dompt equals home,
and that's from Sweden dompte. As it shares the same
origin as a Spanish word, dwen your owner. As Federico
Garcia lorca uses the term, it seems closer to a
fairy as a realm of being dwendez may also have
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some traits similar to goblins and cobalds, so again in
that realm of fay right. The word is often considered
to be the Spanish equivalent of the English word sprite
or the Japanese word yokai, and is used as an
umbrella term for any fairy like beings such as goblins, pixies,
and elves. I don't know, I've only really seen dwende
being used for a very specific type of entity. It's
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always as this little humanoid being. It's not as like
a flying pixie or fairy or like even elves, So
I don't know, it's interesting that it's putting that on
it here. Anyway, this continues. The word is also used
in Portuguese folklore, being used to describe goblins, pixies, brownies,
and leprechauns. They're believed to be of a small statue
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wearing big hats, whistling a mystical song, the whistling there's
always whistling right while walking in the forests. Using their talent,
they are believed to lure young girls to the forest,
causing them to lose their way home. Conversely, in some
Latin cultures, the duendees are believed to be the helpers
of people who get lost in the forest, so they
could find their way home, like the children of the jungle.
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In the folklore of the Central American country of Belize,
particularly amongst the countries African slash Carab descended Creole and
Guttifuna populations, when they are thought of as a forest
spirit called who lacks thumbs again, and hide your thumbs
because of the thought that when that sees them snap
like weapons, he's gonna break your thumbs off in his bed.
(38:54):
Which also, I loved that movie. Go watch it if
you haven't seen it. Gladys is kind of an icon,
even though she's evilntinues. In Hispanic folklore of Mexico and
the American Southwest, the wendas are known as gnome like
creatures who live inside the walls of homes, especially in
the bedroom walls of young children. Oh, I don't like
the way that sounds. I'm gonna rip my horns off.
I hated that. Ugh they attempt to. Oh this part
(39:16):
is for reaky. I never heard this growing up. And
this is why my feet are covered. It's not because
I think something's gonna grab them from under the well.
I guess technically yes, but it's not what you think
is gonna grab your feet. It's the Glendez because they
attempt to clip the toenails of unkempt children, often leading
to the mistaken removal of entire toes. Y'all get your
(39:38):
pedicures or the lendas will steal your toes. If your
toes are looking crunchy and nasty, they're doing you a
favoring chopping them off. This continues. They're also known for
taking items from young children. They have also been able
to barter with the mother of young children so that
they can take the child and have them to eat.
Imagine imagine your parent making a deal with a dwende.
Don't worry about the deal with the devil. They're making
(39:59):
a deal with the to be like, what can I
give you so I can have your kid for dinner.
My mom probably would just give me away for free.
She'd be like, take him please. This continues. They appear
at night when children are at play with a ball
and watch the children and later make their appearance and
confront the children. I don't know if it's specifically kids
playing with the ball. Maybe maybe that's this is just
an example, but yeah, they they watch children playing and
(40:21):
then they later try and take them out or get
their toes. I don't know, it says Chamorodo. People believe
in tells of monas, duendez and other spirits Dwende. According
to the Chamoro English Dictionary by Donald's topping betrol Ogo
m Bernavita donka is a goblin, elf, ghost or spook
in the form of a dwarf, a mischievous spirit which
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hides or takes small children. I feel like that's trying
to be like, that's just saying like, okay, anything spooky
is dwende. I feel like that's that's there's there's too
much reach going on there. I don't know. This wraps
up and it says. Filipinos also believe in Duende, which
is spelled with a W so instead of d u
e nd, it's d w e n d which frequently
live in rocks and caves, old trees, unvisited and dark
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parts of houses, or in ant hills, where they are
called Nuno sapunso or old man of the mound. Did
I say that, okay, nunu sapunsoun sauno. I don't know
they are either categorized as good or evil depending on
their color white or black, respectively, and often play with children.
So that's kind of like, god, what what was this for?
(41:24):
Which episode was that I did an episode on this
dog or this type of these type of dogs they're
like hell hounds, and they say depending on the color
of the dog, it's not lob like the werewolf. What
was it? Okay, y'all, let me know in a comet
or something what it was. But yeah, this the idea
of the colors we're representing good and evil is an
interesting attribute to the Duendez. But that's all for the sources.
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us up at the same time, asking each other if
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And then you look over at whoever you're with and
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We went back to sleep, and that morning we got
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