A famous legend of Peru

1. PISTHACOS
A LEGEND OF THE PERU
NAME:MILAGROS JUAREZ V.

2. PISHTACOS
THE LEGENDS OF THE PERÚ
Pisthacos , nakaq or Pistacus is an interesting and horrible legend in the Andes
región of South America in particular in Peru (Cuzco, Ayacucho, Apurimac, Junin ,
Huancavelica and Lima)
According to folklore, the pisthacos appeared in the pre- hispanic. Many people
think that they were foreigns. What did they look like?
They were taller tan incas. Pishtacos had blue eyes and blond hairs. They were
athletic.Pishtacos were bandits that killed a lot of women and men who walked alone
in deserted roads. They , slited their victims for eat their meat as chicharoon and
sold the fat of human bodies.
Ricardo Palma wrote about then in his “Peruvian Tradition” book. He told us Spanish
missionaries were feared as Pisthacos by incas who belived they were killing people
for fat to cured the patients of the hospital next to churches an monasteries.
In the highlands, the adults thell the kids that if they don´t eat or behave, the
pishtacos’ take them

3. A real legend!
On November 2009, BBC News online reported the arrested of four men “On
of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tisaue for cosmetic uses in
Europe” in Peru- Huanuco.
Peruvian pólice said : Three suspects confessed to killing five people for their fat, and
two were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, the legend suddenly get some
substance.
It’ so hard to believe it .However, that there really is a commerce with human body
is gping on around the world. As Dr Adam Katz, profesor of plastic surgery at the
university of Viginia medical , said:
“ I can´t see why there would be a black market for fat, it desn´t make any sense at
because in most countries we can get fat so readily and in such amounts from
who are willing and realy to danate that i don´t see there would ever be a black
for fat, of all tissues”

4. I Heard about the pishtacos when i was 8 years old.My grandfather who told me
this story. He told me that these men abducted travelers on lonely roads, killed
them and then hung upside down over a flaming cnadle in order to slowly
extract the fat from their bodies. This valuables fat was then sold to prepare
cosmetics or lubricant for aircraft.
I couldn´t believe pishtacos.But you imagine my surprise when i saw in Punto
Final News: Four people arrested in Huanuco because they killed dozens of
people in order to sell their fat for tissue for cosmetic use in Europe.