The ABC of Old Masters of Capoeira

Expulsion from the army

em: Besouro

The episode in the police station of São Caetano costed the defendant, Manoel Henrique Pereira, his expulsion from the Army's quarters, for "moral incapacity", according to the office of the War Ministry, dated November 8 1918.

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About M Besouro Mangangá:

«Besouro Preto, from Santo Amaro, was my father's (Maximiano Pereira dos Santos) cousin, and I heard people talk about Besouro Preto, and I also wanted to become a tough guy, I wanted to be a tough guy who would beat everybody up, who would show up and become a winner (..) In São Pedro farm I met mestre Juvenço, who worked as a blacksmith and was a capoeirista, and who as Besouro's friend. He told me many stories about Besouro, until he died.»
M João Pequeno
«[Besouro's] first contact with the world of capoeira took place with an old african called Alípio, who was a captive in the Pantaleão Mill. When planting sugarcane, the student heard and learned from the old man the teachings of capoeira. Uncle Alípio was a Babalawo [candomblé priest] and had been a slave when young, a son of a black woman who was brought in a ship from the port of São Jorge da Mina in Dahomey [Benin].»
Abib, 2009
«Besouro was a tough guy. His fame was even bigger. His fame made a street to close up. Once a young girl who was raising me, wanted to take me to school. I was very afraid. Besouro was in town and it was all locked up. The police surrounded the town. They wanted to catch Besouro. I didn't want to go to school, because I was afraid of Besouro.»
José Gerardo Vasconcelos, 2003

Expulsion from the army