Capelobo

 


 The capelobo is a monster from the Pará and Maranhão regions of Brazil. It is mainly believed by the Christianized indigenous population. The name comes from the Guarani word capê, meaning bend legged or lame, and the Portuguese lobo, meaning wolf.

The capelobo is a vampiric monster that drinks both blood and brain matter with its long snout. It starts out as an elderly indigenous man, if he dies without a Christian burial or becomes lost in the forest he will transform into the capelobo. This transformation is permanent and he can never return to his human form.

The capelobo looks like a werewolf with an anteater’s head and clawed forelimbs. It also has perfectly round horse hooves, which look the same back to front. This makes it impossible to know what direction the capelobo was travelling when trying to track it. The capelobo is very large, being close to seven feet tall, even when hunched over in a bestial werewolf fashion.

Some say the capelobo has a feral form that looks like a tapir with the head and shaggy fur of an anteater, and the strange round hooves on all four feet, and this form it can transform to at will. Others believe this is a different version of the capelobo, and that the feral and werewolf ones are different individuals.

The capelobo stalks human villages from the cover of the near by forest. During the day it hunts human hunters. The capelobo is especially active on sunday, so anyone who goes out to hunt instead of attending church will surely be killed by the monster. At night anyone who enters the forest will be killed by the capelobo. It will gain courage to enter the human village over time. At first the capelobo will kill pets and domestic animals. The first signs of a capelobo stalking a village being cats and dogs going missing. Over time the capelobo will become more brazen and start kidnapping people and dragging them into the forest to be devoured. The capelobo kills by squeezing its victims to death in a bear hug. It then rips open the victims throat and skull, drinking the blood and brains. It leaves behind a mauled corpse drained of blood.

When a capelobo starts stalking a village the only way to get rid of it is for the bravest hunters to go out into the forest and kill it. This is no easy feat, as the capelobo can hide in its surroundings with the greatest ease, and actively hunts the hunters in return. As said earlier, tracking the capelobo is extremely difficult. In spite of all this the capelobo will often announce its presence through loud screams that strike fear into the hearts of even the most experienced hunters. The capelobo also has an unbearable stench that can be smelled from far away, and up close can be incapacitating.

The capelobo’s thick shaggy fur acts as armor, stopping most attacks. It’s even capable of stopping bullets. The only place the capelobo can be attacked is its navel. A hunter must have perfect aim to hit this target. It’s argued if a capelobo can be killed by an arrow to the navel or if it must be killed with a spear.

The natives in Pará and Maranhão still actively believe in the capelobo and occasionally report attacks by the creature, causing some people to classify it as a cryptid. Although the reported attacks are always told as hearsay or a friend of a friend stories, never with evidence or specific names and dates to substantiate the stories.



Sources


https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptids/comments/172vb4p/capelobo_unraveling_the_beast_of_brazilian/


https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Capelobo


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capelobo


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