Bibiano Fernandes’ rise from the Amazon rainforest

The Amazon rainforest, as fascinating as it is deadly, has its own myths and legends.

A beautiful Native American that would drag you to the bottom of the river at dawn; a giant snake that would attack and eat you alive; the secret story of Botos, river dolphins that would shape-shift into charming human men and seduce women at parties to get them pregnant.

Those tales, part of the local culture for hundreds of years, were never proven to be true. And let’s be honest, they probably never will be. They’re nothing more than myths, stories passed down for generations.

The legend of a young boy from the rainforest, able to escape from death in the jungle and twist your limbs into different…