Brazilian Myth: Yara/Lara.

 

Lara..

Mãe das Águas 

 mother of the waters

Lara also Know as the “Lady of the Waters, or Mother of the waters” is most often depicted as an attractive yet very  dangerous  and seductive mermaid-like cryptid from Brazil.

She lives in the rivers and lagoons, where she sings her haunting songs to attract the local fisherman  using her beautiful voice and good looks to call them to their deaths, similar to Greek sirens.

 with the combined beauty of her voice and seductive figure she easily lures  men into the water where they seldom return. The few that do manage to escape her are haunted by her otherworldly songs for the rest of their life often driven to madness.

 In most  versions of this myth she lures men who fell under her spell into the water to drown them.

In other variants her spell  would compel him to simply leave everything he had  behind and live with her underwater forever because of her beauty ...though in this kinder version she is  said to be a very loving and attentive wife and would love him for  the rest of his life.

However she is   immortal and will spend most of eternity alone. (Humans only live so long).

In yet another versions  

She was a beautiful young warrior-woman, skilled in combat and the art of  war though she lives  in a patriarchal tribe, she eventually gained the admiration of the entire tribe and even her father the chief respected her ability, however her brothers grew jealous of her and  decided to murder her during the night. 

According to this version she defended herself from her brother's and accidentally killed them in the process upon discovering he's sons dead , her father became furious at her.

 She fled to the jungle  but was eventually captured and punished for her brothers death's, by being drowned in the river.

 A different ending to this version  claims the brothers  killed her the nigh of the attack and dumped her body in the river then  blamed the night goddess, Jaci, for her disappearance.

In both versions she ends up in the river, And is turned into a mermaid   by the nearby fish on the night of a full moon or by Jaci.

Now  she takes her revenge on all men by seducing them and drowning them in the river.

Some claim even being near her territory is enough to drive a man crazy and make him want to enter the water.

American Cryptids: Oklahoma Octopus

American lakes and river's seems to be full of odd creatures...

From serpent's to aquatic humanoids, but is it possible that there my in fact be an octopus
or at least an octopus like creature stalking it's prey in Oklahoma..

Sounds far fetched i know, but is it really more outlandish then people claiming  that there are sharks
in the Mississippi river or lake Michigan (There actually is)


Bull sharks have been 'know to swim up river from the golf of mexico and some smaller one's have even be caught in Lake Michigan.

When you mention the word Giant octopus most people probably thing of The Kraken, but the Oklahoma octopus is often described as being roughly the size of a horse, that may not exactly be a giant but its still a very large predator.

Its said to have  a thick reddish brown leather like skin.

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                                    ----The Legendary Giant octopus.--- The Kraken------


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The beast seems to be very reclusive, and is rarely seen, People do go missing in state parks and lake's but keep in mind there are some very large alligators in lakes and rivers in the south that could contribute to at least some of the missing or drown swimmers....


As far as cryptids go the Oklahoma Octopus is not all that remarkable, it's basically just a very large octopus.


Similar to the Lusca or monster of the blue holes in the Caribbean. normally octopus in that area only grow to  around three feet, however in 2011, the body of what appeared  to be a giant octopus was found washed ashore on Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas.  if fully intact would have been over twenty feet long, many times the average length of a Caribbean octopus.



                                              .... Lusca home the Caribbean Blue Holes....

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The Oklahoma Octopus according to legend can be found in these tree lakes....

Lake Tenkiller, Lake Thunderbird, and  Lake Oolagah, which are all fresh water man-made lakes . But  they also seem to have a high number of drawing deaths for some reason....

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In 2003 a man named John Mazurek captured a live octopus at the Lake Conway Dam just outside of Mayflower Arkansas.

Well not as large as it's Oklahoma cousin is reported to be, it's at the very least proof that there was a  smaller variations living near the area....


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Next time you visit Oklahoma keep a watchful eye on the water alligators may not  be the only thing you have to worry about...