The Twilight Zone

[DonQuijote]

I remembered what they called the small creature in Peru. It is called "el duende". You can google that & find lots of similar stories about it. Here are a few of them that you will find very interesting:

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/answers2/frontend.php/question?qid=20070904154700AA8yehf

It’s a spook that walks with the turned around feet emitting a frightful whine. It’s dedicated to annoy the families of the farmers until it drives them crazy and forces them to emigrate towards the cities.

The duende usually moves things of its place or hides them. It lives in caves, where it hides children to drive them crazy.

At night, the duende throws stones to the roofs of the houses, or chases girls that are old enough to have a boyfriend, is also does braids to horses and plays the guitar. In fact, one way of scaring him away is placing a guitar at midnight so that it doesn’t bother the family.

The legend also says that the duende is an angel expelled from heaven due to his envy towards God, and therefore was condemned to wander by the fields scaring people.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:bikSmakaAckJ:adamincambodia.blogspot.com/2007/07/bits-and-pieces.html+peru+%22only+children+can+see%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

"...it is a short little creature, about three feet tall. El duende wears a long white robe made of roughly woven indigenous cloth with a hat so ridiculously wide-brimmed you can’t see his face. His hair is long and snow white. He loves beautiful and pure things. That’s why he steals little girls with blonde hair and blue eyes. Only children can see him. In the rural areas, when several children all share the same imaginary friend, speaking to the air and listening as though they hear a response, the parents take notice.”


http://silverinternational.mbhs.edu/v143/v14.3.07legends.htm

In my town some people told me that a long time ago there was a little man that looked like a boy because he was so short.
El Cipitillo is a very bad and dangerous boy because he likes to tease pretty girls. He is very ugly. He has his feet on backwards. He has a large hat and a large stomach.
He likes to throw little rocks in the girls' food. He likes to also follow them. When the girls don't like him, he treats them badly. He scares them and doesn't let them sleep at night.