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Crew of the Caleuche

Gape e bidiwa: El Caleuche, Buque de Arte
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE a tlolatlolaBoloi1500 go ya go 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

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1896
Described by Chilean writers from the 1890s, among them Darío Cavada (1896)
Tshimologo
Chilote (Chiloé, Chile)
Chile
Se se e bakang
Boloi
The drowned are gathered up and given a second life aboard an enchanted ship.
O fetoga yone jang
A sailor drowns in the channels of Chiloé and is taken aboard by the sea spirit Pincoya or by the ship itself.
E tsamaya jang
E a tlolatlola
In one account each crewman has a leg bent backwards against his spine and has to hop.
Botlhale
E sena tlhaloganyo

E tlhagile la ntlha leng?

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

dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

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

A o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (e a tlolatlola), e seng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Crew of the Caleuche mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o taboga ka iketlo mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele yo o bonako mo e ka nnang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Metswedi

  1. Caleuche - Wikipedia

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