Matinta Perera is a character from Brazilian folklore, more precisely from the North Region of the country. Matinta-Perera is an old witch who at night turns into an ominous bird (more specifically a striped cuckoo) that perches on the walls and roofs of houses and starts to whistle, and only stops when the resident, already very enraged by the strident whistling, promises her something to stop (usually tobacco, but it could also be coffee, cachaça or fish). Thus, the morning stops and flies, an