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Overview
Deep in old forest, Lopes Neto places a white stone house on a rounded rise. It has neither doors nor windows. Inside are heavy gold and silver bars, liturgical vessels, ornaments and sacks of coins prepared for transport. M’bororé, an elderly former chief and friend of the priests of the Seven Missions, patrols around it by day and night.
When the priests were driven away with only their clothing, M’bororé and his warriors secretly moved their valuables into the already-built house. He does not share the greed that makes other people kill for these metals: hunting, forest fruit and fresh water have greater value to him. His watch expresses loyalty to the absent priests. The outline ends with him still circling and waiting; it provides no successful intruder, release, transformation, death or explicit account of how long his vigil lasts. The neighbouring Angoéra narrative also names him as Generoso’s godfather, linking the two literary accounts.
Origins & earliest records
Lendas do sul, Pelotas: Echenique & C., 1913. The author presents traditional material in literary form. These short Mission-region accounts appear as arguments or outlines of other legends; no individual oral narrator is named for this section.
Records & interpretation
Complete Missioneiras outline 3, A casa de M’bororé, with the separate godfather reference in outline 5, O Angoéra. The note referring outlines 1–4 to Teschauer 1911 is retained as indirect provenance.
In the literature
“Ronda e espera...”
Argumento de outras lendas — Missioneiras,3 A casa de M’bororé; separate godfather notice5 O Angoéra
Within dense forest stands a white stone house without doors or windows, packed with gold and silver bars, religious objects and bags of coins. Its watcher is M’bororé, an old former chief and friend of the priests of the Seven Missions. When the priests are expelled with only their clothing, he and his warriors secretly gather their possessions into the already-built house. He does not value the precious metals as much as forest food and fresh water, but guards them out of friendship, circling and awaiting the priests’ return. In a separate outline he serves as godfather when Angoéra is baptised Generoso.
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Lendas do sul — Argumento de outras lendas
Complete Missioneiras outline 3, A casa de M’bororé, with the separate godfather reference in outline 5, O Angoéra. The note referring outlines 1–4 to Teschauer 1911 is retained as indirect provenance.
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Lendas do sul — Argumento de outras lendas — Missioneiras,3 A casa de M’bororé; separate godfather notice5 O Angoéra
Lendas do sul, Pelotas: Echenique & C.,1913, as identified in inspected digital title transcription and Gutenberg original-publication catalogue. Early twentieth-century Portuguese spelling retained. Complete selected numbered outline(s), introductory literary-method note and relevant closing source note read; no facsimile pagination or whole volume claim.
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Lendas do sul — Argumento de outras lendas
Lendas do sul, Pelotas: Echenique & C.,1913, as identified in inspected digital title transcription and Gutenberg original-publication catalogue. Early twentieth-century Portuguese spelling retained. Complete selected numbered outline(s), introductory literary-method note and relevant closing source note read; no facsimile pagination or whole volume claim.
- Within dense forest stands a white stone house without doors or windows, packed with gold and silver bars, religious objects and bags of coins. Its watcher is M’bororé, an old former chief and friend of the priests of the Seven Missions. When the priests are expelled with only their clothing, he and his warriors secretly gather their possessions into the already-built house. He does not value the precious metals as much as forest food and fresh water, but guards them out of friendship, circling and awaiting the priests’ return. In a separate outline he serves as godfather when Angoéra is baptised Generoso.
Argumento de outras lendas — Missioneiras,3 A casa de M’bororé; separate godfather notice5 O Angoéra
Godfather is a baptismal relationship, not biological parentage. The story does not state the watcher’s death, a transparent ghost body, an exact survival age or eventual priestly return. Its hidden building is a literary site, not a verified archaeological cache. Teschauer1911 remains an indirect cited study.
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- Primary textLopes Neto 1913: complete selected Mission-region legend outlinesResearch access: 2026-10-05
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