Maya's Notebook

milcao and chapalele

The ram, appropriately named Methuselah, having escaped the stewpot for so many years, was so old he could barely move

distant fiddles of the Caleuche

the peaceful village of Quicaví

basilisk or cockatrice, an evil reptile hatched from the egg

the nearest machi, an indigenous healer.

macuñ, a bodice made from the skin of the chest of a corpse

drink chicha de manzana

the princess appeared in an ermine cape

You’ve got chilenitis, what foreigners get when they come to Chile. Nothing serious,