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Fura-Pés is a creepy creature who haunts the municipality of Dom Inocêncio, in the state of Piauí, northeast region of Brazil.

Legend[]

Fura-Pés is said to be an imp who lives in the underground, traversing the subterranean trails he digs himself. Like all imps, he likes to have fun at the expense of others' suffering. Whenever he notices someone walking barefoot on the ground, he lifts the tip of his horns off the ground, causing the poor, unsuspecting person to pierce their feet.

It is said that the poison he lefts in the wound causes an immediate infection, making the person shiver with fever, suffer with delusions and hallucinations, and even causing death.

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