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Boitatá is the Brazilian equivalent of the will-o-wisp. The name comes from the Old Tupi mboî tatá, meaning "fire serpent".

According to legend, Boitatá was a big serpent which survived a great deluge and then went through the fields preying on the corpses, eating exclusively their eyes. The collected light from the eaten eyes gave "Boitatá" its fiery gaze.

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