Minhocão (animal)
Minhocão may mean: * Minhocão (legendary creature) - an earthworm or fish-like creature of Brazilian folklore * Minhocão (São Paulo) - officially the Elevado Presidente Costa e Silva, a road {{Disamb ...
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Minhocão (legendary Creature)
The Minhocão is a creature from Brazilian folklore that is variously claimed to be a large fish or to resemble a worm measuring , even up to in length. Descriptions The Minhocão was described to European explorers and naturalists in the 19th century by locals in Brazil. French naturalist Augustin Saint-Hilaire described in December 1846 accounts of the Minhocão in the Padre Aranda and Feia lakes, with claims that they lived in the lakes and had "often drag horses and horned cattle under the water".Saint Hilaire, Augustin (1849) "On the Minhocão of the Goyanese" in ''The Annals and Magazine of Natural History'', No. 123, January 1847, pp. 140–141 He determined 'Minhocão' to be an augmentative of 'minhoca', Portuguese language, Portuguese for earthworm. Descriptions related to him claimed the creature to have a visible mouth and that it "does not rise to the surface of the water, but that it causes animals to disappear by seizing them by the belly". Other accounts claimed the ...
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