Case file · Folklore / legend
Mula sem cabeça
The headless mule, a woman cursed for loving a priest, gallops through villages on Thursday nights breathing fire. Luís da Câmara Cascudo mapped the legend across Brazil in 'Geografia dos Mitos Brasileiros' (1947).
1947 CE · -21.13, -44.26 · status: legend
The account
The legend came from the Iberian Peninsula and is strongest in the interior of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. The year marks Cascudo's survey, not the legend's first appearance, and the point is a representative place in southern Minas.