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Makech (maquechis in Spanish) is a Yucatec Mayan handicraft, which turns harmless wood-eating beetles into living broaches
Legend quoted from here: "There once was, I have been told, a Maya princess who fell in love with a man she would never be permitted to marry. So heartbroken was she that she wept night and day over her forbidden love. A shaman, hearing her cries and learning of her misery, transformed her into a glittering beetle, a piece of living jewelry. Her beloved pinned her to his breast. Thus she spent her life, close to the heart of the one she cherished."
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From "Merida - Arising from White Solid Stone…" (author unknown)
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