On our Patagonian excursion this past week, we spent two days on the island of Chiloé. Our first stop was in the village of Chacao. We all visited artisan stores and we all saw… the trauco!
When
I first saw this green man covered in straw, I was very confused, but then I
remembered the myth…
Back
in the olden days, when Chiloé was just beginning, many of the men would have
to leave the island to go fight. Whenever they would return, their wives would
be pregnant. They knew that it could not be their child, because they were
gone! It was a child of… the trauco!
Yes,
we all know what this really means, but it was interesting to see how non-confrontational
they were about this. I could not even imagine if something like this happened
back home in the United States. Supposedly, touching or even looking at the
trauco means that you will get pregnant. A few of us were brave enough to test
out the myth! I guess we will see if it is true in about nine months!
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