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Overview
Ángel de la Torre Fernández's public bilingual collection account comes from San José Miahuatlán, Puebla. The rider travels with a silent black horse and an enormous serpent that produces money. Anyone accepting it is said to die and lose their soul. Ángel recounts his mother's remembered escape after seeing the rider seated in a doorway holding the serpent; her warning carries the story into the next generation.
San Martín de las Pirámides' municipal chronicler instead describes a midnight horseback apparition offering riches for unclear promises, followed by disappearance and lost memory. A separate SEP classroom story locates him at Jiquipilco: he disturbs papers inside the municipal building until a waiting man strikes him with a sword and faints. His subsequent disappearance explains the name Curva del Charro Negro. The sword episode belongs to that local tale, rather than a universal weakness.
Origins & earliest records
The Miahuatlán book acknowledges support from CDI's 2018 Indigenous-rights program, but its inspected credits do not establish a publication year. The municipal account is undated, while SEP's digital lesson was posted in February 2025. These public witnesses record regional forms; their dates and stated settings do not prove the rider's earliest oral origin.
Records & interpretation
The INPI-hosted collection's printed p. 40 was read directly, including the child's name and family transmission. The complete municipal text and Jiquipilco lesson narrative were inspected separately. They support three attributed variants, without making every Charro Negro a money-serpent keeper or deriving Indigenous religious figures automatically from a popular devil story.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
- 01
Atrévete a contar un cuento / Techpoalli tehuatzin se mohuehuetlahtoltzin: La leyenda del Charro Negro
Printed p. 40; named eleven-year-old narrator recounts a maternal story.
- 02
Historias de leyenda: La curva del Charro Negro
Digital lesson posted 6 February; complete Jiquipilco retelling.
Family & connections
A source-supported family tree or inspiration record has not yet been compiled for this profile. Related reading below indicates a connection in subject matter, not a proven lineage or creative influence.
References
Sources supporting this profile. Linked pages have their own scope and editorial standards.
- Primary textINPI/CDI: Atrévete a contar un cuento, p. 40Research access: 2026-10-05
- CommunityMonserrat Maya Gómez, municipal chronicler: El Charro Negro, San Martín de las PirámidesResearch access: 2026-10-05
- Primary textSEP: Historias de leyenda, La curva del Charro NegroResearch access: 2026-10-05
Image credits
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