> they believed I was a pishtaco, an evil person who had come to steal the oil from their bodies. > in the sixteenth century, [...] some of the Spaniards, frus

> they believed I was a pishtaco, an evil person who had come to steal the oil from their bodies. > in the sixteenth century, [...] some of the Spaniards, frustrated that their muskets and cannons rusted so quickly in the jungle humidity, were said to have killed Indians and boiled their bodies in iron pots, then used their fat to grease the metal. Really, Spaniards? Really??