O balanço da encruza: história, literatura e misticismo nas metamorfoses de Maria Padilha

Abstract

The present study has the objective of investigating the historical, literary and mystical that outline the figure of Maria Padilha. We will seek to raise the processes of metamorphosis of this character, resulting from a state of constant dislocation that constitutes the trajectory in which her image emerges, as a noble of the court of Spain in the fourteenth century, permeates, with the popular imaginary, is diluted, alongside other personas, in the conjurors brought by European exiles to the Colonies. by European exiles to the Colonies, until it was progressively incorporated into Afro-Brazilian religious practices. Afro-Brazilian religious practices. Key-words: History; Literature; Mysticism; Maria Padilha.