The Origin of the Legend about a Pact with the Devil in Alto Lucero, Veracruz: Analysis from the Psychodynamic Perspective

Abstract

This research gives an insight from the psychodynamic approach, trying to find a sense of the fantasies from the social imaginary, after the emergency of a legend from Alto Lucero’s town, it is about the death of a man who drew a door at the cliffs of the cemetery; Julian who was dressing in black and often went to the graveyard at night, going away from society, his nickname was “el Gavilan” “the hawk” whose job was to be a hitman, remembering that at the beginning and in the middle of the last century of a post revolutionary Mexico and in one provincial environment, it was not strange at all to find people whose job was to wipe out to those who interfere with personal interests. One of these characters was Julian the hawk, who allegedly had a pact with the devil to protect him in his way and job, already violent.