Encantado

General about Encantado
The Encantado is a mythical creature, that is a shape-shifting dolphin. When there's parties around him on he costs, he transforms into his human form. Then he is a really handsome man, who has a bald place on his head, where the breathing hole for the dolphin would be. That's why they always have to wear hats. Also, they desire sexual activity, so for any young woman, it could become dangerous, because Encantado has based on the legends many illegitimate children. It is told that, when you see a handsome man at a party, it's more likely to be an Encantado than a real man.

Legends
Beneath thatched roofs

far from soft white sands of Ipanema and Ilhabela

Amazon dwellers witness

a pink dolphin dancing sprightly

upon the water’s surface,

his slippery tongue cackling

through his jagged-tooth beak.

Poachers look to the ground

in fear that direct eye-to-eye

contact might produce

ever-lasting nightmares...

Nightmares for those who hunt

the Boto's flesh for perfume…

for precious oils… for catfish bait…

for a miraculous Aphrodisiac.

Packed with loggers, gold diggers,

greedy hunters and hunted prey,

the vast Amazon brush... vanishing…

hides the very last mystery...

It is the legend of the pink dolphin

who leaps out of Amazon waters—

those piranha-infested waters—

onto the human-congested shore…

With a smirk of Homo Erectus,

his amphibious flippers—

perfect for treading water—

unexpectedly transmute

into human ankles…

The Boto now struts in pride,

his huge toes sink into the cool ooze

of the riverbank.

With a floppy straw hat

set low upon his melon head,

his silken shirt covers

his broad chest and pulsing blowhole.

An alien among humans,

his once mottled flesh

is now flushed with rosé wine.

In dancing he learns to alter

his rhythm ever-so -gracefully

to waves of music palpitating

from Samba to Bossa Nova

to Lambada.

His hypnotic ululations

and sinuous spine flexing

soon cast the ultimate spell

as he allures his quarry

with kisses before drawing

her deep into underwater chasms

of the enchanted realm

with the charms of his Limbo dance.

It is the legend of the pink dolphin

who leaps out of Amazon waters—

those piranha-infested waters—

onto the human-congested shore…

Some nine months later—

the mystery is now incarnate—

the arms of a human child—

the blowhole of a Boto.

Downing cup after cup

of straight sugar cane pinga,

she wants to drown herself

in waters of Lethe

and banish that

passionate Boto night

totally from her spirit.

Fishermen reconfirm her tale.

Her half-human newborn

fades from life

in just a few instants

not at all knowing

whether he was

a creature who belonged

purely to the realm

of water or of air....

Such is the legend of the pink dolphin

who leaps out of Amazon waters—

those piranha-infested waters—

onto the human-congested shore…

Origin of this legend
The Encantado is a dolphin, which sometimes is pink. That must have been really magical and mystic for the people. So they thought they would make up stories with it. When now a really handsome man with a round bold spot on the head exists, then they somehow merge together in one thing. Maybe the handsome man was sleeping around with some girls, which makes him kind of suspicious too. So the people just make up a story of a mythical sea creature.