Kaxinawá legend says that one day, many people in the tribe became very ill and their medicine man (Pajé in Brazil) had done everything possible to cure them. Under the effect of sacred plant medicines during a Full Moon, he entered the forest and received a visit from ‘The Grandmother’. She brought in her hands a frog, from which she took a white secretion, and taught the Pajé how to apply it. Returning to the tribe following the guidelines he had received, the Pajé cured his tribe. From then on he was known as Pajé Kampu. After his death, it is said that his spirit lives on in the frog where it protects the health of those who defend the forest. The secretion became known as Kambo but in some tribes it is called Sapo, Kampu or Vacina da Floresta.

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