Case file · Folklore / legend
Cantuña and the devil's atrium, Quito
Legend says the Indigenous builder Cantuña sold his soul to the devil to finish the atrium of San Francisco in Quito in one night, and cheated him by hiding one stone.
1580 CE · -0.22, -78.52 · status: legend
The account
Year approximate (the convent was built in the late sixteenth century).