Iara (mythology)

[5] Her physical traits, sometime given as black haired and brown eyed, may vary according to regional oral tradition,[6] perhaps turned blonde or green, due to literary influence.

[12] Leandro Tocantins [pt] has professed he prefers the version where Yara is depicted more like a cabocla (suggesting copper tone skin), with long black hair and almond-shaped eyes.

[13] Her features appears to have been altered even through the retelling of the same tale: In the tale of A Yara of the version of Manaus, as come down through Francisco Bernardino de Souza (1873), the native boy captivated by the Yara's beauty and song says her "hair was as blond as gold, tied with mururé [waterlily or water hyacinth] flowers" and that she "raised her green eyes at me".

[6][26] In other versions, the men who fell under the spell of the Iara would leave everything behind to live with her underwater forever, due to the fact that she was pretty and would cater for all the needs of her lover for the rest of his life.

[17] In Arinos's version, the youth is named Jaguarari, the son of the chieftain of the Manaus people, who likewise becomes enthralled and visits the Yara at the waterfall point of Taruman (var.

[31][better source needed] Merely passing through the iara's territory could cause a man to be melancholy, and develop nervous excitement which others perceive as madness.

[6] Turned into a mermaid upon being saved by nearby fish on the night of a full moon or by Jaci in some versions, she decided to take revenge on all men by seducing them and drowning them in the river.

[citation needed] Frederico José de Santana Néri [pt] had heard his own version of the Yara tale from a friend, but suspected it was a cover-up story for a murder.

[35] Néri gave the title as the version of Pará,[36] and purports it to be based on a real death, the body found in water of one Januario Marinho, as reported in the local newspaper of the provincial capital (Belém).

But one time, his strange behavior upon return convinced her he had seen the Yara (which he eventually admitted, describing her as wearing a white robe[39] and later as gold-tawny haired and emerald-green eyed[40]).

[42][e][f] Another real-life incident tied to the iara myth concerns Dr. João Barbosa Rodrigues Júnior (1872–1931) who while collaborating with his father to domesticate a tribe, was accompanied by his wife, who was fair-skinned, blue-eyed and blonde, and when she was spotted bathing in the creek, the natives shouted "Uiara!

Cassiano Ricardo in Martim Cererê [pt] (1928) described her as "a strange woman, very beautiful, very fair, like no other in the world: Green hair, yellow eyes.

[26] Another paper emphasizes that even though the Iemanjá which originally an ocean deity could be distinguished from the freshwater Iara, the demarcation became blurred through a long period of convergence, starting when the Europeans began proselytizing in the African-descent community.

He embraces her eagerly and sees too late the blow hole in the back of her neck that gives her away as the creature she is and not the beautiful woman he mistook her for.

In Love, Death & Robots season 3 (2022), episode 9 "Jibaro", a deaf warrior meets an Iara who lures his comrades with her screams, causing them to enter a dancing frenzy, rushing to her to ultimately drown in the lake.

Iara is a minor antagonist in the TV series adaptation of Beastmaster, presenting as a siren who appears as a beautiful woman but it's only an illusion as she is really a water snake.

muito clara, como ainda não houve no mundo outro igual: Cabelos verdes, olhos amarelos.