This article is about a South American mythological figure. For the hoax about a Peruvian gang suspected of trafficking in human fat, see Pishtacos.
Pistaku, Peruvian Retablo, Ayacucho.
A pishtaco is a mythological boogeyman figure in the Andes region of South America, particularly in Peru and Bolivia. Some parts of the Andes refer to the pishtaco as kharisiri, or ñakaq, or lik'ichiri in the Aymara language.[1]
A pishtaco is a mythological boogeyman figure in the Andes region of South America, particularly in Peru and Bolivia. Some parts of the Andes refer to...
tragedy in the form of various myths. These include the figure of Nak'aq or Pishtaco ("butcher"), the white murderer who sucks out the fat from the bodies of...
terminated in favour of animal products. In Peru a group of gangsters called pishtacos was accused of having manufactured and marketed human fat; the case turned...
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eating refrigerated fat. Maritza explains she and her brother Alonzo are Pishtaco, Peruvian parasitic monsters that feed on fat. Maritza set up the spa to...
Allegedly, he killed a man and hung his body on a meat hook in his shop. Pishtaco is a folklore legend that describes a mythological boogeyman in the Andes...
in the investigation, but then goes to a health spa where the owner, a pishtaco, feeds on her fat, causing her to lose ten pounds, something she attributes...
in what is known as the Crime of Gádor. The Peruvian tradition of the pishtaco has many similarities being understood as monsters or foreigners who collect...
with a great deal of references to old, "indian" spirituality, and to pishtacos, vampires of Andean folklore. Arana-Ward, Marie (1996-02-25). "Ancient...
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