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is a Tupi-Guarani word? Also



         pronounced as Baitatá, Biatatá,




         Bitatá, Batatá and Batatão, it is used



         to give name around the whole



         Brazil to a natural phenomenon




         known like faery fire, that in Brazil



         is attributed to a whole mystic world



         full of  magic and legends, and to


 fearsome Boitatá!  even a legendary mystical entity in





         the Guarani lands, a gigantic serpent


 Boitatá, legend, myth and mysteries   of  fire!



 in the Amazonian rivers






         The most common name for this

 Did you know that in fact "Boitatá"   snake is boitatá, which is actually the
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