the captor of a saci can take his cap and earn a wish or keep him in a bottle as a talisman, but beware! those who mistreat saci while in captivity earn themselves a fearsome enemy, whose usual fare of minor domestic disturbances and trickery will become much more adversarial.  

for cariocas, the ilha de paquetá serves as physical repository and source of many of the legends they interact most regularly with. the small island - and its smaller archipelago - are just a few minutes by boat into guanabara bay, but they are a world away from the metropolitan crush of the zona central.