# Inspector task sheet

Pombero: the visitor expected after dark

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Pombero: the visitor expected after dark, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.

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## 2. Investigate the central question

Compare consented, attributed accounts in their original language with museum labels and published collections. Record what a narrator perceived separately from the name later applied to it. Trace variations in offerings and behavior by locality. Require diagnostic biological evidence for zoological claims.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Compare locally attributed versions and ask which meanings narrators themselves assign. Preserve the earliest encounter description and environmental conditions before testing candidate explanations. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

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