Pretty Rock
In 1897, the arraial of Canudos was destroyed by troops of the Army. The mstico-religious direction of the sebastianismo also contributed for the appearance of folclricas manifestations in Brazil. It has legend registers on the return of Dom Sebastio, as of the Magic Bull and of King Sebastio. In the vision of Barbarian Elisa Polastri, Edsel Rodrigues Teles and Raquel Faustino, the movement of the Pretty Rock is counted in minute way, detailing the facts. History happened enters the years of 1836 and 1838 in the hinterland of Pernambuco.
The fanatic Joo Antonio Dos Santos believing or making the humble sertanejos to believe that, if they made some types of sacrifices, El-King of Portugal, D.Sebastio, much wanted by its people, would come back as saint. Then to these they had followed them people and the movement grew each time more. The local power, seeing it if to expand, ordered to arrest the head of the movement, that ran away for the interior of the hinterland of the Cariri. Two years later, its brother-in-law Joo Blacksmith reactivated the movement of a more intense form, coming back to practise acts of the medieval time, of the type: in the marriage ceremonies the first night of nuptials was granted it, and some sacrifices had started to happen to the people sacrificed its proper lives to start for the father of the same, parents had sacrificed its children and animals. It was much spilled blood, the place of the Pretty Rock was uninhabitable due to the strong odor of meat in putrefao state, then the faithful had been to mount encampment more the front. The fanatic sertanejos lived in a species of arrest, some only had permission to leave the encampment to form faithful more. Jose Gomes Vieira scaring itself with the ceremony, obtained to leave the place and was to ask for aid in the village next.