Pé-de-Garrafa

Overview

Maria Cristina de Aguiar Campos’s 2005 paper places Mato Grosso accounts among the dangers remembered by poaia-root collectors and forest workers. Its cries imitate companions, leading searchers farther astray; round tracks obscure the direction of travel. The paper quotes a Jacobina description credited to Sebastião Alves Correia: a hairy humanlike figure with one leg ending in a bottle-base-shaped hoof. Other reports make an unprotected navel its vulnerable point. Campos preserves differences between accounts, including descriptions collected by Martha Johanna Haug in Chapada dos Guimarães.

Ciência Hoje das Crianças freely adapts a Mato Grosso do Sul version in 2024. Men entering the forest to fell trees and hunt hear an alarming whistle. The creature has rotting cloth on its head and a single hoofed leg; its misleading calls disturb hunters or people approaching with harmful intentions. Reports within the retelling liken its heavy flight to wet rhea wings. This environmental guardian portrayal differs from the paper’s lethal forest encounters and is explicitly credited as an editorial adaptation.

Origins & earliest records

Campos connects the collected Mato Grosso narratives with nineteenth-century poaia extraction, without establishing the creature’s first invention. Her 2005 symposium paper combines oral and written witnesses, including Haug’s 1983 collection. CHC’s publication on 1 October 2024 documents a later adaptation rather than the original oral telling.

Records & interpretation

The eight-page Campos paper directly preserves the root-collecting context, regional descriptions and their source attributions on pp. 1–4. Haug and the older Jacobina witness are quoted sources, not independently inspected editions. CHC identifies its own free adaptation; CNFCP’s thesaurus independently confirms the single-foot, round-track motif. These witnesses do not require one universal anatomy.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

1. 01

   A lenda do Pé de Garrafa

   Maria Cristina de Aguiar Campos · 2005

   XXIII Simpósio Nacional de História, Londrina; directly inspected pp. 1–4, with quoted regional witnesses.

2. 02

   Folclore em Chapada dos Guimarães-MT

   Martha Johanna Haug · 1983

   Collection quoted by Campos, pp. 50–51; original edition not independently inspected.

3. 03

   Cuidado com o Pé de Garrafa

   Ciência Hoje das Crianças editorial retelling; illustration by Rogério Coelho · 2024

   Explicitly freely adapted Mato Grosso do Sul story, published 1 October; directly inspected, no copied passage.

Family & connections

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References

Sources supporting this profile. Linked pages have their own scope and editorial standards.

1. ResearchCampos 2005: complete regional comparisonResearch access: 2026-10-05
2. CommunityCHC 2024: freely adapted Mato Grosso do Sul accountResearch access: 2026-10-05
3. ReferenceCNFCP: Pé-de-garrafa thesaurus definitionResearch access: 2026-10-05

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