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Scorpion451
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13th May, 2024 11:00:17 AM
Would be a good one to add to several tropes under "Mythology"
- Deal with the Devil - as usual, a bad idea
- A Man of Wealth and Taste - A Sharp-Dressed Man with a heavy coinpurse and a sinister streak
- At the Crossroads - an aspect shared with some counterparts in the US South's mythology, beware those met on the backroads and byways.
- In with the In Crowd and Wanting Is Better Than Having - the part where the fun gets stale after a while
- Flying Dutchman - an interesting example in that he's not truly Barred from the Afterlife, but his eternal wandering is an attempt to avoid the afterlife he has waiting
- Ambiguously Evil - his motives and goals are unclear. The gifts of coin could be anything from an attempt at penance to a temptation for the greedy, his dalliances with women the vice of a lonely wanderer or the work of a tempter trying to souls astray.
El Charro Negro:
•A legend that originated in Mexican folklore from remote places of Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Puebla and Hidalgo; to date the outskirts of the metropolitan area of Mexico City and even in the interior neighborhood of Coyoacán.
•He usually appears at dusk in streets and lonely sidewalks, always looking for a pedestrian to whom to offer gold coins, which he takes out of a small bag that he always carries around the waist.
•He’s a rather tall, elegant-looking man in impeccable black suit made up of a jacket, a shirt, tight pants and a wide-brimmed hat wanders in the depths of the night in the lonely stretches that join the little things that unite the small towns of rural Mexico on the back of a huge, jet-black horse.
•In one variation, he’s actually a demonic figure.
•His supposed backstory is that he once came from humble origins. He was poor but extremely vain and greedy. One day that greed got the better of him and he sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for infinite wealth. However he soon began to regret his decision. The people around him didn’t like him, they liked his money. He decided he was gonna escape all of that. Dressed in an elegant black suit and wide-brimmed hat, he packed his bags and tried to leave town. However, the Devil caught up to him quicker than expected and collected his debt. Ever since then, he looks for someone to take his place in hell.
•He’s known for manipulating and seducing women.