Mboi or serpent-trace traditions in Paraguay

Record summary

Paraguayan folklore contains several mbói or giant-serpent traditions, sometimes linked in popular accounts to flattened grass, unusual trails, or large snake sightings. These reports can be compared with Brazilian boitatá and Argentine aquatic-serpent traditions, especially where environmental traces are read through Indigenous and rural narrative systems. The surviving material is likely diffuse and genre-mixed rather than a single investigation. Researchers should identify the Guaraní term, locality, collector, and publication, and should preserve distinctions among snakes, water beings, and legendary serpents.