Caipora

It is represented as a dark-skinned, small Native American, naked with a very long red mane, smoking a cigar and very mischievous.

Curupira is often depicted as a boy with red hair, who has his feet turned backwards in order to deceive trackers.

The Caipora is known as a forest dweller, as a king of the animals of sorts, and is very vengeful of hunters who do not respect the rules of "fair-play" when hunting.

It is told that it scares away prey and "hides" animal tracks or makes hunters lose their way in the jungle.

The story accounts as a hunter who disobeys his father by going to hunt on a holy day; he finds the Caipora, who resuscitates all the animals that he slaughtered.

In the northeast area of Brazil, they say that being Caipora means that you are going through tough times, with bad luck and unhappiness.