Island of Lencois

The Island of Lencois is a visitor island placed on the west coast of Maranhao, inside the municipality of Cururupu. It is set 30 km from the municipality of Apicum-acu. The island is surrounded by using many legends. Among them is wherein the king of Portugal D. Sebastiao could have lost himself puzzling the island with the Sahara Desert in Morocco, residing in it in a fortress, inflicting its inhabitants to have lots of respect for his or her determine and to believe inside the myth of Sebastianism.

Magical memories of golden animals visible on the island and gold objects found on the beach are instructed, and legends of which Don Sebastiao becomes an enchanted black bull with a celebrity on his forehead on Friday nights. When someone manages to wound his head, the enchanted bull, the King Dom Sebastiao would go back to take his country once more. The island of St. Louis might submerge and an enchanted metropolis would appear with the treasures of the king. The leather-based of the Bumba-meu-Boi's ox, mainly those of zumba and tambourines of hand-shore, from the regions of Cururupu and Guimaraes, typically have the horns tip in gold steel and it has a celebrity embroidered on the forehead of gold and jewels.