Peruvian folklore

universe of legends and collective memory of the religion and worldview of the Inca Empire

Huacachina is a village built in a small natural, but now artificially maintained, oasis and surrounded by sand dunes in southwestern Peru. It is about five kilometers from the city of Ica in the Ica District of Ica Province. The oasis was introduced as a feature on the back of the 50 nuevo sol note in 1991. Huacachina has a permanent population of around 100 people, although it hosts many tens of thousands of tourists each year.

thumb|200px|Supay, as interpreted in a Peruvian festival In the Quechua, Aymara, and Inca mythologies, '''''' (from "shadow"; ) was originally an ambivalent spirit, both benevolent and harmful, a denizen of the Incan netherworld (Hurin Pacha) who might enter the world of the living as "shadow", perhaps attempting to bring someone as companion into the world of the dead.

thumb|Duendecitos by Francisco Goya, 1799 thumb|Model of a duende

serpent or dragon deity from Andean mythlogies

thumb|Representation of the Ekeko in La Paz, [[Bolivia]]

thumb|upright=1.15|Pishtako, Peruvian Retablos|Peruvian Retablo, Ayacucho A '''''' (in Northern Quechua "slaughterer, cutthroat"), (in Southern Quechua, similar meaning) or (in Aymara,"slaughterer") is a folkloric boogeyman figure in the Andes region of South America, particularly in Peru and Bolivia, which extracts the fat of its victims.

thumb|Clay statuette from Argentina, on display at the Bern Historical Museum right|thumb|The legend of the Chullachaqui Mural (Iquitos - Peru) The Chullachaki (Quechua, "one-footed", from chulla or ''ch'ulla = single, odd, unpaired, asymmetric, chaki'' = foot; spelling sometimes also used in Spanish) or Chullachaqui (Hispanicized spelling), also known as the Shapishico, is a mythical forest creature of the Peruvian and Brazilian Amazonian jungle.

1872 short story collection by Ricardo Palma

Bakom, also known as Vacón, is a Peruvian martial art created during the early 1980s by former commando and street fighter Roberto León Puch Bezada.