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Parchment-style artwork of Tata Duende, a small forest spirit in Belize’s jungle, wearing a wide-brimmed hat.

Tata Duende: The Forest Guardian of Belize

In the deep, untamed heart of the Belizean rainforest, where towering mahogany trees sway above a sea of green and the calls of toucans echo through mist and vine, lives one of the country’s most mysterious spirits, Tata Duende. Known in Maya and Creole folklore as the guardian of the forest, Tata Duende is both protector and punisher, a being

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