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Overview
A report labelled Litigue in Vicuña Cifuentes’s appendix describes a beautiful horse appearing from time to time in Lake Calmil. Its halter and mane are golden. The lakeside inhabitants connect years of its appearance with plentiful shellfish in Calmil.
When shellfish are scarce there, Llico instead enjoys abundance: the explanation is that the horse has moved to that lake, considered its original home. The short account gives a relationship between animal movement and two places, without a named human encounter, capture, attack or final disappearance. Vicuña notes general comparisons with other water-animal legends but, writing away from his books, declines to supply precise references.
Origins & earliest records
Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y supersticiones recogidos de la tradición oral chilena, Santiago: Imprenta Universitaria, 1915. The appendix combines local reports, named correspondents and quotations from other writers; their different routes of transmission remain specified.
Records & interpretation
Appendix A, XXXIX, El Caballo de la laguna de Calmil, complete p. 324, including its comparative note. Local report labelled Litigue; individual teller unnamed.
In the literature
“un hermoso caballo con jáquima y crines de oro”
Appendix A XXXIX El Caballo de la laguna de Calmil, complete printed p.324; quoted printed p.324 · Not applicable: inspected original Spanish
An unnamed Lingue report associates a beautiful gold-maned, gold-haltered horse with Lake Calmil and plentiful shellfish in years when it appears. Scarcity there coincides with abundance at Llico, where the horse travels and is said to originate. Vicuña appends a comparative note but says lack of books prevents specific references.
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Mitos y supersticiones recogidos de la tradición oral chilena
Appendix A, XXXIX, El Caballo de la laguna de Calmil, complete p. 324, including its comparative note. Local report labelled Litigue; individual teller unnamed.
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Mitos y supersticiones: recogidos de la tradición oral chilena — Appendix A XXXIX El Caballo de la laguna de Calmil, complete printed p.324
Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria1915; original title page previously checked, selected complete sections below visually read in National Library MC0008702 PDF. No claim of whole-volume review.
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Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Santiago de Chile: Imprenta Universitaria1915; original title page previously checked, selected complete sections below visually read in National Library MC0008702 PDF. No claim of whole-volume review.
- An unnamed Lingue report associates a beautiful gold-maned, gold-haltered horse with Lake Calmil and plentiful shellfish in years when it appears. Scarcity there coincides with abundance at Llico, where the horse travels and is said to originate. Vicuña appends a comparative note but says lack of books prevents specific references.
Appendix A XXXIX El Caballo de la laguna de Calmil, complete printed p.324
Collection label reads Lingue; no named individual informant or verified biological mechanism. Calmil/Llico seasonal abundance is a reported traditional association, not an independently established environmental cause.
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- Primary textVicuña Cifuentes 1915: complete selected appendix accountResearch access: 2026-10-05
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