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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
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