Brazilian folk horror, read from the original sources.
Published · text produced with AI under human direction and review; quoted passages were checked word for word against the digitized editions cited.
Vigil Page reads Brazilian legends through the books that recorded them. The Saci spins inside a dust whirlwind. The Curupira leaves tracks pointing the wrong way. A wife discovers that the man she knows by day has another shape at night.
Vigil Page is made by the team behind Águas Profundas, a Brazilian folk-horror channel: the films are on our YouTube channel, and the longer Portuguese guides are in the Portuguese archive. These English guides read the same sources from another angle. They place Brazilian accounts beside particular English-language stories, with each place and author named. A resemblance does not establish a shared origin.
Legends, with sources
Saci-Pererê: the One-Legged Trickster of Brazilian Folklore
The Saci-Pererê of Brazilian folklore: whirlwinds, braided horse manes, the 1917 newspaper letters, Saci Day on 31 October, with quotes from 1876 to 1918.
Films
The films are for adults. Narration is synthetic; images and animation are generated with AI under human direction. Each film page explains its language, sources and release date.
Twelve Creatures of Brazilian Folklore
Twelve Brazilian folklore creatures from written accounts of 1863–1921. Film details and source passages, in English; premieres 30 October.
Saci: the Newspaper Letters of 1917
A film built from the Saci letters collected in 1917 and printed in 1918. Sources, seven chapters, Portuguese audio and premiere details.
The Wife Who Saw Her Husband Change
A Brazilian letter of 1917 meets Portuguese village accounts of 1882. Film chapters and public-domain sources, in English.
How we work
We start with public-domain texts. A written account preserves what someone reported or believed; it does not prove that the event happened. We name oral storytellers where the record names them, and identify the person who put their words in print.
Research, source selection, quotation checks and approval are human responsibilities. AI tools help produce the writing, voices and images. Original passages and our translations are labelled separately. Read how we work and our sources.
For a place to begin reading, see Brazilian folklore and folk horror in English: free texts and print editions.