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“And then the child moved. Dead as it was, it rose, uncertain at first, and when it turned to me, the eyes— which I had watched the priest scrape out with the golden dagger while the child wailed its death cries— were a mass of green smoke that smelled of burning hair and cooked pig.
It wept blood while it reached for me, and then, God help me, I ran...”
–From the Journals of Thomas Turner Kincaid, 1922
It is unknown when these entity or entities were first encountered by mankind. However, for those who know where to look, evidence of their existence in pre-Columbian history can be found. Pictoglyphs at the largest central American pyramids, carved stele, and even words in the old language Nahuatl make reference to these beings as the acamapichtli ayahuitl —“The Children of Smoke”.