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very much like the snaking of a

snake. And it was this image that

ended up being consecrated in the

popular imagination.

Boitatá has two extremely gleaming

eyes, almost like car headlights, and

Boitatá is also portrayed in the work its scales are transparent, glistening

of João Simões Lopes Neto, Lendas in the night as it glides through open

do Sul, more specifically in a short grasslands or riverside.

story that describes the legend. The

idea of a fire snake came because the The different myths about Boitatá

light of the flames would eventually throughout Brazil

move through a space, which looks