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This drawing wasn't actually based on the Brazilian myth, "Myth of
Iara"(from the Brazilian Folklore), but when I remembered the existence
of this myth, I found interesting to make a reference to it in the title
and tell this story.
So here we go, and grab your popcorn if you like "horror stories" like this.
The Myth of Iara: (And I'm sorry if my English isn't so good, for me it's a little difficult to write stories in other languages, but I tried to let the text comprehensive, at least)
At the beginning, when Brazil was still populated by natives, the natives where used to tell a story about a great and beautiful warrior named Iara, who loved to attract a lot of men with her voice and beauty.
Iara was the youngest daughter of the tribe's Shaman, having two elder brothers. Sadly, the two sons were despised by their father, because Iara was the special one. She was the best warrior of the tribe, and the most beautiful.
Blinded with envy, the two brothers decided to kill Iara while she was sleeping. However, it wasn't possible, because Iara discovered their plan and killed them first, coldly but quickly, with her eyes bathed in blood. Afraid of the reaction of her father, Iara fled.
The father, as soon as he hearded what had happened, he went in search of Iara, and when he found her, she was condemned to death, being thrown into the meeting of the rivers Rio Negro (Black River) and Solimões, to be eaten alive by piranhas.
But before she could die, she was cursed for doing something so horrible, and the anger of the souls of the brothers murdered transformed her into a monster. A woman with half the body of a giant piranha.
Since then Iara still living in these rivers, attracting men travelers singing with her beautiful voice, but now for a different purpose. She needs to eat.
When victims approach her, she immediately makes them blind, piercing their eyes with her huge claws, to prevent them realize her monstrous form and her face that's not beautiful anymore, for having been eaten and deformed by piranhas. Then she takes them to the bottom of the river and they never come back. Not with life, at least.
....
Haha.
So this is the Brazilian version of mermaids. Maybe it's not as cool as the mythological version or as other versions from different countries, but... it's not so bad. I guess... hahaha.
Hope you have enjoyed it
So here we go, and grab your popcorn if you like "horror stories" like this.
The Myth of Iara: (And I'm sorry if my English isn't so good, for me it's a little difficult to write stories in other languages, but I tried to let the text comprehensive, at least)
At the beginning, when Brazil was still populated by natives, the natives where used to tell a story about a great and beautiful warrior named Iara, who loved to attract a lot of men with her voice and beauty.
Iara was the youngest daughter of the tribe's Shaman, having two elder brothers. Sadly, the two sons were despised by their father, because Iara was the special one. She was the best warrior of the tribe, and the most beautiful.
Blinded with envy, the two brothers decided to kill Iara while she was sleeping. However, it wasn't possible, because Iara discovered their plan and killed them first, coldly but quickly, with her eyes bathed in blood. Afraid of the reaction of her father, Iara fled.
The father, as soon as he hearded what had happened, he went in search of Iara, and when he found her, she was condemned to death, being thrown into the meeting of the rivers Rio Negro (Black River) and Solimões, to be eaten alive by piranhas.
But before she could die, she was cursed for doing something so horrible, and the anger of the souls of the brothers murdered transformed her into a monster. A woman with half the body of a giant piranha.
Since then Iara still living in these rivers, attracting men travelers singing with her beautiful voice, but now for a different purpose. She needs to eat.
When victims approach her, she immediately makes them blind, piercing their eyes with her huge claws, to prevent them realize her monstrous form and her face that's not beautiful anymore, for having been eaten and deformed by piranhas. Then she takes them to the bottom of the river and they never come back. Not with life, at least.
....
Haha.
So this is the Brazilian version of mermaids. Maybe it's not as cool as the mythological version or as other versions from different countries, but... it's not so bad. I guess... hahaha.
Hope you have enjoyed it
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