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Overview
Eni Orlandi's collection transmits a newspaper account attributed to Geraldo Periquito about Zé Maximiano. After mistreating his parents, he dies and cannot remain buried. Pedro Vicente carries the rejected body to a cave, armed with a blessed quince rod supplied by a priest. When the corpse clutches him and demands that he stay forever, Pedro strikes it and escapes. This named episode gives the familiar dried-corpse motif a particular transporter, failed burial and confrontation, rather than merely listing an evil man who wanders at night.
A different Cambira, Paraná, story appears in Reis Filho, Rodrigues and Santos's study, quoted through Rodrigues from memorialist Narciso Capelotto. A sick landowner promises a pilgrimage to Aparecida and pays two men to carry him in a hammock. Discovering his death beside the Mata de Ubatuba, the carriers abandon him and take the money. The resulting skeletal apparition asks passersby to complete the journey. Here the unfinished vow and the carriers' betrayal drive the haunting. It should remain distinct from the parental-cruelty explanation and from Unhudo's named forest encounters.
Origins & earliest records
Orlandi's directly inspected volume title page establishes 2016; its pages 32–33 transmit the Periquito newspaper episode. The 2022 research article, page 41, quotes Capelotto 1998 through Rodrigues 2016 for Cambira. These publication chains document particular narratives; they do not establish a first oral Corpo-seco account or a single national origin.
Records & interpretation
Both complete selected episodes were read, including Pedro's escape and the Cambira figure's request. The sources quote earlier witnesses that remain indirect. The 2022 article's original title page corrects misleading 2021 copies or metadata. A general claim that every Corpo-seco deserved punishment would misrepresent the different causation preserved in the pilgrimage story.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
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Instituição, Relatos e Lendas: Narratividade e Individuação dos Sujeitos
Directly inspected title page and chapter pp. 32–33; quoted Geraldo Periquito/Pedro Vicente story, earlier newspaper witness indirect.
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Assombrações, catolicismo e “não morte” nas narrativas do “Corpo Seco”
Revista Brasileira de História das Religiões 14(42), pp. 29–68; directly inspected title page and p. 41 Cambira account, Capelotto through Rodrigues.
Family & connections
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References
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- ResearchOrlandi 2016: named Corpo-seco cave and transporter narrativeResearch access: 2026-10-05
- ResearchReis Filho, Rodrigues and Santos 2022: Cambira pilgrimage variantResearch access: 2026-10-05
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