Demarcation Diaries
18 September 2001
This morning a Urubu (a large vulture) pooped on Ademar while he was
sleeping. He stood up and jumped in to the river. Then he burned his
mosquito net. He put some dead meat in
the
bush to lure the bird and sat near by waiting. I was laughing because I
thought that he was just hungry.
Then the Deni told me that if the
Urubu poops on you, it is like a spell and the only way to break
it
is to kill the bird and throw salt on top.
He's been waiting the whole day for the Urubu which still hasn't shown up. So the spell is still not broken.
We just heard from Manuel that the helicopter is still not clear.
Coincidence? No comment.
"Don't let the Urubus poop on top of you" (Old Deni Proverb)
-Cuniua Team
(Paula, Samuel and Petros)
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