The island of Chiloé is notorious for a dank and macabre mythology in which much of the population is said to still believe: goblins, warlocks and all manner of creatures are thought to populate the caves in the forest along the eastern shore. When Darwin visited in the 1830s there were tales of people accused of devil worship being sent to the Inquisition in Lima. More than a century later Chatwin wrote of a brujeria, or witchcraft, sect rumoured to be flourishing in Chiloé, with the sole purpose of spreading evil and causing pain and misery to humankind.
Francis/Island
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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