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Alebrijes are
brightly colored Mexican folk
art sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes,
along with use of the term, originated with Pedro Linares. In the
1930s, Linares fell very ill and while he was in bed, unconscious, Linares
dreamt of a strange place resembling a forest. There, he saw trees, animals,
rocks, clouds that suddenly turned into something strange, some kind of
animals, but, unknown animals. He saw a donkey with butterfly wings, a rooster
with bull horns, a lion with an eagle head, and all of them were shouting one
word, "Alebrijes". Upon recovery, he began recreating the creatures
he saw in cardboard and paper mache and called them Alebrijes. [Wiki]
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