This is amazingly creepy! I had not heard about the "face peelers," although I've researched the Pishtaco legends in the interest of an urban fantasy-type story that may take place somewhere between Cusco and Machu Picchu. The parallels are definitely disconcerting - the outsiders with their technology and their greed, extracting everything they can from the local population, even their fat. To have similar tales reemerge with modern, almost alien technology... very disturbing!
This is amazingly creepy! I had not heard about the "face peelers," although I've researched the Pishtaco legends in the interest of an urban fantasy-type story that may take place somewhere between Cusco and Machu Picchu. The parallels are definitely disconcerting - the outsiders with their technology and their greed, extracting everything they can from the local population, even their fat. To have similar tales reemerge with modern, almost alien technology... very disturbing!