How did indigenous cultures, European colonists, or pre-electricity South Americans understand the power of the Electric Eel? Did they understand it as the same phenomenon as lightning, or something else?

by PlsStopPls
scarlet_sage

/u/robinthebum wrote about it at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/53mrnh/what_was_the_electric_eel_called_when_electricity/d7uh0ed/

This is not to discourage more discussion. I'd love to see more data, debate, and questions.