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: Director of Peru's Police claims now that he did not say that "pishtacos" are real
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Director of Peru's Police claims now that he did not say that "pishtacos" are real
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Here is more -- a lot more -- about the pishtacos (pistaku), an alternate word for a monstrous figure in folk mythology in Peru: the ñaqak, Quechua for "slaughterer" or "sacrificer".
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Here is more--a lot more--about the pishtacos pistaku, an alternate word for a monstrous figure in folk mythology in Peru: the ñaqak, Quechua for "slaughterer" or "sacrificer".
Ñakaq attack 2009
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Someday I'm going to write a story about pishtacos, New World vampires that suck fat instead of blood.
Visits Afoot, Bug Love, and Trixy Identities gailcarriger 2009
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Someday I'm going to write a story about pishtacos, New World vampires that suck fat instead of blood.
Visits Afoot, Bug Love, and Trixy Identities gailcarriger 2009
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Someday I'm going to write a story about pishtacos, New World vampires that suck fat instead of blood.
Visits Afoot, Bug Love, and Trixy Identities gailcarriger 2009
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The police dubbed the gang the pishtacos, based on colonial folklore of a tall, white male who wears a broad-rimmed hat and roams the highlands, stealing the fat - and sometimes the eyes - of unsuspecting travelers.
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