Kanaima – Learn Why You Should Be Afraid

Kanaima, as spirits of vengeance, attack and kill their victims in retaliation for some injustice. It is a human/lizard like creature. Some say it is like the werewolf but instead of seeking out a pack it seeks a master. Once the master gains its trust he can make it kill/harm anyone and anything. It has a paralytic toxin on its claws that can paralyze your whole body in just a couple of seconds.

It  is said to be scared of its own reflection. If we looked like a giant blue lizard, we’d be smashing mirrors and hiding from glass windows, too.

Kanaima – Described in the folklore of Northwestern Brazil and Guyana | fictionspawn.com Illustration

It is also said to be a weapon of vengeance and in this capacity it is used as a sort of servant to carry out the bidding of its master.

Physical traits of a kanaima

The kanaima is roughly the size of an average human male, covered in scale, yellow eyes with slits, and can climb up walls like some varieties of lizards. It has a long prehensile tail and long claws that secrete venom that can paralyze victims for hours.

Its Weakness

When the kanima is not in control, the human half is susceptible to its own venom.

How the Kanaima kills or hunts its prey

Kanaima will not limit itself from harming or killing the friends, family, and loved-ones of it’s victim. Individuals possessed by the Kanaima do not live among others but in the jungle or wilderness. Kanaima are known to track their victims to any location that they may have fled or may be hiding. An interesting aspect of the Kanaima is that it seeks the painful suffering of it’s victim and will not kill it’s victim outright. Instead, the Kanaima works it so that the victim dies a painful death three days after it’s attack.

Kanaima possess supernatural powers as they are spirits. They have the power to shape-shift and to possess the bodies of animals and humans. Kanaima possess supernatural weapons. The Kanaima is believed to be able to drive people insane with one look.

Amerindians has it that,“Time nor distance are of any importance to those possessed by the Kanaima as they will track their victims to any location that they may have fled or may be hiding”.

An interesting aspect of the Kanaima is that it seeks the painful suffering of it’s victim and will not kill it’s victim outright. Instead, the Kanaima works it so that the victim dies a painful death three days after it’s attack. During this process the Kanaima slashes the tongue of it’s victim so that he/she cannot speak of what is occurring.

The victim will first become aware of an impending attack when the Kanaimas approach his house by night, or on lonely forest trails,making a characteristic whistling sound,a direct physical attack might come at any point, even years thereafter, for during this period of stalking the victim is assessed as to their likely resistance and their suitability as “food.” In some attacks the victims may have minor bones broken, especially fingers, and joints dislocated, especially the shoulder, while the neck may also be manipulated to induce spinal injury and back pain. This kind of attack is generally considered to be a preliminary to actual death and mutilation; … fatal attack will certainly follow but may come many months, or even a year or two, later. When a fatal physical attack is intended, victims are always struck from behind and physically restrained.

A variety of procedures, intended to produce a lingering death, are then enacted. The victim has their tongue pierced with the fangs of a snake, is turned over and either an iguana or an armadillo tail is inserted into their rectum so that the anal muscles can be stripped out through repeated rubbing. Then, pressing on the victim’s stomach, a section of sphincter muscle is forced out and cut. Finally, the victim’s body is rubbed down with astringent plant and a thin flexed twig is forced into the rectum, so that it opens the anal tract. Packets of herbs are then rammed in as deeply as possible. This is said to begin a process of auto-digestion, creating the special aroma of Kanaima enchantment, rotting pineapple. As a result of the completion of these procedures, the victim is unable to speak or to take any sustenance by mouth. Bowel control is lost and the clinical cause of death becomes acute dehydration through diarrhoea, the Kanaimas will try and discover the burial place of their victim and await the onset of putrefaction in the corpse that usually occurs within three days, the rest remains unknown…

Here the most interesting video we found on the topic

Article references

• http://www.native-languages.org/kanaima.htm
• http://www.academia.edu/173989/SIGN_OF_KANAIMA_and_THE_DEMONOLOGY_OF_DEVELOPMENT
• http://thedemoniacal.blogspot.com/2012/06/kanaima.html?m=1
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kanaima