Thanks for straightening that out. I was preparing a whole section on
Chupacabra in my thesis but recently cut it out completely. (Along
with most of my badly typed notes.) [*blush*]
You're right-- It is kind of like the Predator.
My interest in it was sparked because I have been studying the
archaic, "pre-literary" vampire myths of Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania.
The Chupacabra is a modern example of a preliterary folk tale-- that
is a writer like Polidori, Le Fanu or Stoker hasn't come along and
co-opted the cultural myth and put it into a unified narrative.
Also-- interesting Freudian/sexuality/guilt thing-- regarding the
entire vampire myth and transgressive sexuality/desire: "chupa" is
Spanish for goat, but is also a colloquialism meaning "tramp, slut,
whore". The word is used to describe a promiscuous woman.
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