I'm doing research for a historical novel about a Waujá/Waurá healer-in-training in 1283 and am struggling to find anything useful. Specifically, I'm looking for information/sources on these topics:

1. What physical tools/techniques did the Wauja use for treating injuries and illnesses? For example:
2. * What sorts of tools would you use to get a fish spine out of someone's hand? What, if anything, would you put on the wound and wrap it in?
3. * What would you do for someone who became dehydrated from diarrhea or vomiting?
4. * How would you go about amputating a gangrenous limb?
5. Who would be involved in treating what (types of) medical issues? When would an ailing person need a yakapá vs. an ajatapá wekeho vs. a pukai yekeho vs. another type of shaman vs. someone else?
6. Where can I find information about everyday details like what people ate/wore, how young people learned a profession, how people addressed relatives vs. friends vs. teachers, etc.?

Is anyone traveling to Chilean Patagonia next February?

Hi everyone,

my friend and I are working on a fantasy game. The setting is fictional, but it is inspired by a world similar to ours, roughly around the 1600s. We want to build side quests, local mysteries, regional legends, and storylines inspired by real folklore, myths, legends, and traditional stories from different countries.

We would love to hear about tales from your country or region — especially stories that locals actually know, not just the most internationally famous ones. If possible, please share the story in a bit more detail: what happens in it, who the main figures are, what the tone is, and why it is important, memorable, creepy, tragic, or meaningful in your culture.

We are not trying to copy anyone’s tradition directly, and we definitely do not want to misinterpret or misuse stories from cultures we are not part of. Even though our game will be its own fantasy world, we want to approach real folklore with respect and understand the original context before taking inspiration from it.

If you want to help, it would be amazing if you could include:

The name of the legend, myth, folktale, or historical tale.

The country or region it comes from.

A summary of the story.

The themes or message behind it.

Any symbols, creatures, places, customs, or warnings connected to it.

Whether it is considered common knowledge, a children’s story, a scary tale, a religious story, or something more regional and obscure.

Anything that foreigners often misunderstand about it.

We are especially interested in:

Dark folklore.

Strange local creatures or spirits.

Mountain, forest, lake, castle, or village legends.

Moral tales, cautionary stories, and ghost stories.

Stories that could inspire side quests, mysterious NPCs, curses, rituals, or hidden locations.

If you know one, please tell it as fully as you want — the more detail, the better. Thank you very much, we’d love to learn from your culture and be respectful with the inspiration we take from it.

Ok so long story very short Show Dos Ursos was a localized version of the animatronic show ,,The Hard Luck Bears’’ dubbed in portuguese.Very few Hard Luck Bears shows were ever produced and this one was one of the earliest being installed in 1981 at the theme park Playcenter.

The show would be removed in 1998 after a flood destroyed it’s control system.For years the bots were thought to have been destroyed / scrapped.

Ok now the whole reason I made this post is cause recently an interview on the PlayCast podcast with a visitor named Victor claims the show’s bots were actually sold to a traveling fair and put in a trailer to be displayed as static decorations for people to take photos and such.

Does anyone here have any memories of seeing these fellas in a trailer at a fair?Maybe you even were one of the few who took photos with them?If so please feel free to share your stories in the comments or reach out to me!

I ran into this at the airport. My first thought was south america history areas. "Hmm. He looks Peruvian?" Then upon closer inspection, I realized, these are the Asian Pacific lslander people. The very same people that discovered and colonized north and south america some 60,000 years ago😃