
220px|thumb|Artistic representation of the curupira The Curupira, Currupira or Korupira () is a forest spirit in the myth of the Tupí-Guaraní speaking areas in the Brazilian and Paraguaian Amazon and Guyanas. It is a guardian of the rainforest that punishes humans for overcutting.
220px|thumb|Artistic representation of the curupira The Curupira, Currupira or Korupira () is a forest spirit in the myth of the Tupí-Guaraní speaking areas in the Brazilian and Paraguaian Amazon and Guyanas. It is a guardian of the rainforest that punishes humans for overcutting.
The name Curupira means "covered in wounds or blisters", and derives from an agglutination of Nheengatu: "grain, rough", etc. and "skin" (cog. Guarani/Tupi: ), thus "rough or pimply skin". This kurupire may have been passed on perhaps from Nheengatu-speakers in Brazil to the Tupinambá speakers, then to the Guaraní-speaking population in the south.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).