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Crew of the Caleuche

También llamado: El Caleuche, Buque de Arte
Folclore y mitosNo muertoSaltaBrujeríaDe 1500 a 1899

The Caleuche is the phantom ship of the Chiloé archipelago in southern Chile. Its crew is recruited from the drowned, who are revived to serve aboard for ever, in some tellings as contented sailors and in others as maimed and mindless slaves of the island's sorcerers. The twisted, hopping crewmen resemble the imbunche, another creature of Chilote witchcraft. It is South America's clearest folklore of the dead put back to work.1

Combatirlo
Primer registro
1896
Described by Chilean writers from the 1890s, among them Darío Cavada (1896)
Origen
Chilote (Chiloé, Chile)
Chile
Qué lo causa
Brujería
The drowned are gathered up and given a second life aboard an enchanted ship.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A sailor drowns in the channels of Chiloé and is taken aboard by the sea spirit Pincoya or by the ship itself.
Cómo se mueve
Salta
In one account each crewman has a leg bent backwards against his spine and has to hop.
Inteligencia
Sin cerebro

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Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1896

Described by Chilean writers from the 1890s, among them Darío Cavada (1896)

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Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The Caleuche is a brilliantly lit ghost ship that appears at night to the sound of music1

2

In a common version its crew are dead, enslaved sailors1

3

They are deliberately kept as forgetful idiots so that they cannot betray the ship's secrets1

4

Their hands are said to be very cold1

5

The ship is also the vessel of Chiloé's sorcerers, the brujos1

6

The legend may go back to a Dutch ship lost in the region in the early 1600s1

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Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (salta), no una medición.

Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Crew of the Caleuche unos 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fuentes

  1. Caleuche - Wikipedia

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Misma época: De 1500 a 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732