page_title: Sacamantecas
section_title: Similar beliefs
hierarchical_section_title: Sacamantecas / Similar beliefs
caption_attribution_description: Illustration of a manticore; detail of a miniature from the Rochester Bestiary, BL Royal 12 F xiii, f. 24v. Held and digitised by the British Library.
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: A manticore in a 13th-century manuscript.
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