Candace Slater
Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination
In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are encantados , or Enchanted Beings, capable of provoking death or madness, but also called upon to ...
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