“There are three species of Saci: the Trique, the Saçurá and the Pererê one. The Saci that is easily found around here is the Saci-Pererê. It's a one legged little black boy, wearing a red hood and who is always smoking a pipe. it's common to hear in the bush a kind of sound as a "trick"; this is the sign that there may be a Saci-Trique in the surroundings. He's not mean; "he just likes to play some tricks such as tying the animals' tails".

"The Saçurá is a little black boy with red eyes; the Trique is a little tanned boy; he has dark skin and has just one leg; the Pererê is a little black boy that when he wants to hide, he turns into into a whirlwind and disappears. To get a Pererê, one shall throw a rosary on the whirlwind".

And here it is some more information on the Saci: "when one loses any kind of object, he should get a straw and make three knots, because this way he or she is knotting the Saci's pinto (penis). While the Saci doesn't find the object, one shall not unknot the straw. This way the Saci always brings back what we want because he wants to pee". (Amaro de Oliveira Monteiro).

When one sees a horse's tail full of knots, that was the Saci who made it for sure. When one takes off the Saci's red hood, he'll bring everything for the person who gives the hood back. When the whirlwind passes by, if one throws a fork in it, he'll see the Saci's blood on the ground. Other versions: throwing a rosary will tie the Saci; throwing a sieve will trap him.

There's a bird that lives in the forests named Saci that has a sinister singing - as many others birds. When the Indians listened to certain birds like this one ion the 16th century, they kept silent full of amazement because they believed these birds were bringing news from the ones who were already beyond, "over the mountains"...

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