 Offending a "nunò sa punsó" is taboo; people who step on them are believed to be cursed by the angered dwende within.The Chamorro people of the Marianas Islands tell tales of the "taotaomo'na", duendes and other spirits.A duende, according to the "Chamorro-English Dictionary" by Donald Topping, Pedro Ogo and Bernadita Dungca, is a goblin, elf, ghost or spook in the form of a dwarf, a mischievous spirit which hides or takes small children.