Headless Mule: Learn the story behind the original legend of the folklore character.

Headless Mule: Learn the story behind the original legend of the folklore character.

Headless Mule: Learn the story behind the original legend of the folklore character.

The original legend reveals the moral and traditional norms of that time.

Long awaited second season invisible cityseries Netflixfinally got to streaming. With new characters and figures from national folklore, the production took some creative liberties and re-told the origin story headless mule. But do you know the history of the creature?

What is a Headless Mule?

Art from the Brasilicast da Mula sem Cabeça podcast

There are different versions of the origin of the headless mule. Chief says if woman sleeping with her boyfriend before marriagehe can be cursed while carrying the mule transformation.

It comes about as a way reinforce moral standards This family traditions of the timeguaranteeing female body control and her own sexuality.

Other versions have taken a more sinister path. In them, the fear of premarital sex turns into a romantic relationship with a priest. All a woman who had some sort of relationship with a priestwill be punished and turned into a Headless Mule.

Anthropologist and researcher of Brazilian folklore, Luis da Camara Cascudoit is said that the punishment fell only on the woman, since the priest will be judged only in the divine plan.

According to the story, this transformation took place in the night Thursday For Friday. Throwing fire around her neck, she ran through the forests and fields, tearing apart the animals and people who were in front of her. The creature could only return to its human form when the rooster crowed in the morning.

What has changed in the Invisible City?

Headless mule in the invisible city

lived Simona SpoladoreHeadless Mule invisible city Suffered “deconstruction”. The actress commented Splash Wall who tried to treat the legend of the creature as a relationship with “Instinct, with the sacred, with the cosmos, with infinity”. Less curse and more gift.

“We worked to get her to accept it and make it a blessing, not a curse. May her freedom be a blessing.”Simone explains

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