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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/SittingInFear on 2024-10-16 14:03:11+00:00.

Original Title: TIL about pishtacos, an Andean Indigenous legend. People feared Spanish missionaries (pishtacos), believing the missionaries were killing people for fat, thereafter oiling church bells to make them especially sonorous.