When you are in Brazil and you happened to hear a high pitch cry, which
sounds like a coughing roar, they said that it belongs to a vampire creature
which was given the name, Jaracca. The
sound of its cry is enough to raise the hair at the back of the neck of an
individual since a Jaracca is greatly feared all over Brazil.
There are no definite reasons as to how a Jaracca came into
existence. Some says that it is a
merging of darkness that sprung into the jungle. Others say that they came from the blood
drinking Gods of the South America.
There are also stories that say that Jaracca are spirits of those blasphemous
people who were denied by the heaven and hell.
They return to the jungle consuming anything they can to survive.
The Jaracca does not feed on the blood of the people with intent to
kill. It just drains enough blood in
order for its sustenance. But if a
Jaracca would continually victimize the same individual, they would grow weary
and wither out and eventually die. The
Jaracca shape shift in the form of a snake, it sneaks out on a breast feeding
mother in order to suck her blood.
Without the mother knowing it, the snake slips out under the baby and
placed its tail into the baby’s mouth to silence him. He would start drinking the milk of the
mother and if he likes the taste of it he will return again and again.
When you come face to face with a Jaracca, you must be extra careful;
they said that once it is in the form of a snake, they spit venomous saliva
that can cause insanity. There is no
known cure for the insanity brought by its venom.
At times that milk is not available; a jaracca tends to suck the blood
of men. He would bit them in their arms
while they were sleeping and their venom would cause them to go insane. The next morning the victim will ran out of
his house like a madman that is why the Jaracca is greatly feared on
Brazil. There are no ways stated on how
you can destroy a jaracca, you can only prevent yourself from being its victim
form prayers and incantations.
A snake that is endemic to Brazil is also named as Bothrops jararaca.
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