Country guides covering superstitions, folk beliefs, omens and traditions across South America.
🇦🇷 Argentine Superstitions
Argentina’s National Folklore Survey of 1921 asked schoolteachers across the provinces and national territories to record...
🇧🇴 Bolivian Superstitions
Bolivia’s living folk-belief traditions are especially visible in La Paz’s Alasita, where miniatures connected with the...
🇧🇷 Brazilian Superstitions
Brazilian folk belief draws from Indigenous cosmologies, Iberian household customs, African diasporic traditions, popular Catholic devotion,...
🇨🇱 Chilean Superstitions
Chile has an unusually detailed early record of popular belief in Julio Vicuña Cifuentes’s 1915 collection...
🇨🇴 Colombian Superstitions
In Colombia, the everyday word agüero can describe an omen, a luck-seeking act, or a sign...
🇪🇨 Ecuadorian Superstitions
Ecuadorian folk belief is not one uniform system: Andean Kichwa Cañari communities, urban Quito households, Afro-Ecuadorian...
🇬🇾 Guyanese Superstitions
Guyana’s folklore is carried through Guyanese Creolese, Indigenous languages, family storytelling, folk songs, religious communities, and...
🇵🇪 Peruvian Superstitions
Peru recognizes 48 Indigenous or original languages, and the beliefs carried through them differ across the...
🇵🇾 Paraguayan Superstitions
Paraguay gives folklore a formal place in its cultural life: Law No. 6864 designates 22 August...
🇸🇷 Surinamese Superstitions
Suriname does not have one uniform set of folk beliefs. UNESCO heritage work in the country...
🇺🇾 Uruguayan Superstitions
Uruguay has an unusually well-documented record of folk belief because several major collections were printed or...
🇻🇪 Venezuelan Superstitions
Venezuelan folk belief is recorded through household sayings from Monagas and Trujillo, Andean stories of enchanted...
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