Tradition
In Guaraní mythology, Luisón is the seventh child of Taú and Keraná.
7/7The werewolf, also called Lobisón or Huicho
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Where it livesAny cemetery in the country
Variant Colmán ties him to cemeteries, naming none. He goes from town to town.
HabitatCemetery
How it movesOn all fours, at night
Fear
Cunning
Speed
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- Domain
- Lord of the night and companion of the Fates
- When
- At night. Tuesdays and Fridays, in popular tales
- Watch out
- Passing between your legs or touching your forehead passes on the curse
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Saga
At his birth, the sky lit up with the Seven Sisters.
Saga
That glow marked the end of the curse that weighed on his parents.
Tradition
But not on him. On Luisón fell the worst of all sentences.
Tradition
He lives on the border between life and death, where the fate of the soul can be lost forever.
Variant
On Tuesdays and Fridays, when night falls, he loses his human form
Variant
and turns into a monstrous dog, with sharp teeth and a sickening smell.
Tradition
He seeks out cemeteries. He rolls among the dead.
Saga
And at midnight he goes out to hunt the living.
Variant
With a kiss on the forehead, or by passing between a man's legs, he can turn him into another Luisón.
Variant
At dawn, he becomes human again: dirty, tired, with a look that no longer seems human.
Saga
Since then, Luisón and his brothers keep lurking in the Guaraní Region.
The end (Opá)
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Sixteen frames, as in stop motion. Slide to animate.
Tribute
The people who appear in the Luisón video are inspired by the cast of Sombras en la noche, the Paraguayan suspense series aired by Canal 13 from 1993 to 1996: Clotilde Cabral, Wilfrido Acosta, Jorge Ramos and Rubén Vysokolán, whom we remember fondly. It is a tribute made with admiration. This site has no connection with the original production.
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What is tradition and what is art?
- Tradition
He is the seventh child, lord of the night and companion of the Fates, ruler of cemeteries.1
- Saga
In Colmán, the Seven Sisters do not appear at his birth: they form after the fire, from the purified souls of the seven brothers.1
- Variant
Tuesdays and Fridays come from popular tales. Colmán mentions no days of the week.1
- Variant
The belief says a family's seventh son becomes a Luisón. In Argentina, that idea is tied to presidential godparenthood.23
- Variant
Part of his story came from Europe, with the werewolf figure, and blended with local tales.34
- Variant
Passing between the legs or licking the forehead passes on the curse, according to collected folklore.2
