Charles (Chuck) Bryant
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Podcast Appearances
Yeah, absolutely.
And, you know, as far as where these things come from, I remember many, many years ago we did one on urban legends.
And it's always pretty much impossible to trace back like the true origin.
With this one, there are people who think this might have come from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica when the indigenous peoples had very close relationships and bonds with animals.
But when the Spaniards came along to Mesoamerica, they brought, of course, Christian, you know, Catholic Christian beliefs with them and condemned the rest as paganism, of course.
Yeah, for sure.
It's also popped up over the years in like various pop culture ways.
I'm surprised there hasn't been like a pretty cool La La Chusa like movie or character in a movie or TV show.
You know, they'd be truly frightening.
All right.
Well, maybe I'll check it out.
You have good horror recommendations.
I mentioned pop culture.
I think Lollachuza was an enemy in an issue of a comic book called Relimpago, and that was created by Margarito Garza.
So that was one.
What else?
There was music too, right?
You know, I wish I knew somebody who was a good sort of model maker, creature maker, because we've been getting more into the Halloween front yard decorations and like to be a little outside the box and not just whatever you get at Party City or no, not Party City.
What is it?
We did a whole episode on it last year.