page_title: Sacamantecas
section_title: Similar beliefs
hierarchical_section_title: Sacamantecas / Similar beliefs
context_page_description: Sacamantecas or mantequero is the Spanish name for a kind of bogeyman or criminal characterized by killing for human fat.
context_section_description: The Peruvian tradition of the pishtaco has many similarities being understood as monsters or foreigners who collect human fat from their victims.
  Urban legends about organ trafficking show similar fears in modern contexts.
  Vampires in European folklore draw blood from humans.
  Brenan finds a similarity between the mantequero and the Persian manticore (a man-eating chimera cited by H.J. Tarry, Ctesias' Persica and Aristotle's Natural History).
  Other bogeymen in Hispanic culture are the coco, the Sack Man and the Tío del Saín (Murcia).
caption: Pishtacos in the Colonial era (top), 20th century (middle) and now (bottom). Peruvian retablo from Ayacucho.
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