The Fofão doll

A plush doll of Fofão, a character on TV Globo's Balão Mágico, which an urban legend popular in Brazil in the 1980s said hid a knife inside for use in rituals.

Fofão was a character on the TV Globo show Balão Mágico, a blend of man, dog and alien played by the artist Orival Pessini, according to Globo's own archive.

Both the English and Portuguese Wikipedias describe an urban legend from the 1980s about a plush doll of the character: it had a knife or dagger hidden in its body, meant for rituals or for hurting children. People likened it to Chucky, the doll from the Child's Play films. The Portuguese article says the body does hold a plastic stake that supports the head. The English article says a pointed piece of hard plastic serving as a spine was found, and calls the legend partly borne out.

In 2015 Mundo Estranho interviewed a man who worked on the toy, under the headline that he had created the curse. He said the dolls were stuffed with polystyrene beads, since polyester fibre stuffing was unavailable then, and the beads could give the doll no stability. So he designed a long frame that fixed the head and was pushed into the filled body. He said it looked like a dagger but had no point and no cutting edge. The two accounts disagree on whether the piece was pointed.