March 11 - El Cuco

“Reality is thin ice, but most people skate on it their whole lives and never fall through until the very end.”

~ Stephen King, The Outsider

The Outsider is an HBO series we've been watching that recently introduced us to the Grief Eater, also known as El Cuco. He is the Latin American boogeyman, the eater of children, and can take any form it likes. There are parallels across cultures as well, for example in Portugal El Cuco is represented by a carved pumpkin with a candle-lit face.

This balloon was actually made in "pig art" February after they showed the first images in the miniseries - a head that is almost entirely mouth with a humanoid body, crouched in an animal pose.  But now that I've read a little more about it, the "real" thing is much more terrifying, described as a wriggling mass of worms.  .. should make this again with about 400 puff inflated 360s maybe ...