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    plot to select the fattest individuals later to be targeted by pishtacos. The pishtaco, both historically and in modern times, has stood as a symbol for...
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  • microkernel family, a computer operating system component Pishtaco, a South American bogeyman The Pishtacos, a Peruvian gang Mitsubishi Pistachio, a three-door...
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    of animal products. In 2009, a group of Peruvian gangsters, nicknamed "pishtacos" by the police, was accused of having manufactured and marketed human...
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    in what is known as the Crime of Gádor. The Peruvian tradition of the pishtaco has many similarities being understood as monsters or foreigners who collect...
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  • Allegedly, he killed a man and hung his body on a meat hook in his shop. Pishtaco is a folklore legend that describes a mythological boogeyman in the Andes...
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  • in the investigation, but then goes to a health spa where the owner, a pishtaco, feeds on her fat, causing her to lose ten pounds, something she attributes...
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  • eating refrigerated fat. Maritza explains she and her brother Alonzo are Pishtaco, Peruvian parasitic monsters that feed on fat. Maritza set up the spa to...
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    tragedy in the form of various myths. These include the figure of Nak'aq or Pishtaco ("butcher"), the white murderer who sucks out the fat from the bodies of...
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    Peuchen – Chile Pricolici - Romania Pichal Peri – India Pichas – Nepal Pishtaco – South America, Peru Pontianak – Indonesia Rakshasa – India Raktha pisachi...
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  • references to some elements of native Peruvian spirituality, including apus, pishtacos, and mukis. His lack of understanding of Indigenous Andean culture is...
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