Vasitri

The Vasitri are described as wild men-like hairy creatures from the Venezuelan jungles and the Colombian Andes that, according to the local Amerindians, construct primitive huts and crude weapons.

These beings are said to be extremely dangerous, ill-tempered and carnivorous, eating men but carrying off women for breeding purposes.

Like the Abarimon, it is asserted that the Salvaje is easily recognized by the traces of its feet, the toes of which are turned backward.

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Baron Alexander von Humboldt, the famous Prussian naturalist who mapped over 1,700 miles of the Orinoco River , wrote about the creature but acknowledged he never met an Indian who saw it for real.

"On the Orinoco, it is rumored the existence of a hairy man of the woods called Salvaje, that carries off women, constructs huts, and sometimes eats human flesh. The Tamanacs call im Achi, and the Maypures named him Vasitri or great devil; The natives and the missionaries have no doubt of the existence of this man-shaped monkey, of which they entertain a singular dread. Father Gili gravely relates the history of a lady in the town of San Carlos, in the Llanos of Venezuela, who much praised the gentle character and attentions of the man of the woods. She is stated to have lived several years with one in great domestic harmony, and only requested some hunters to take her back, she and her children (a little hairy also) were weary of living far from the church and the sacraments."

Source

Von Humboldt Baron Alexander and Bonpland, Aime (Translated and Edited by Ross, Thomasina) Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America During the Years 1799-1804, Vol. 2