Literature cordeliana, that if it puted in charge to create estórias fabulosa, ídolos, heroes and myths that if João identified with the aspirations of the people - Cricket, Cancão de Fogo, Antonio Advising, or imported as: Mysterious Pavão, Peter Malazarte, Sansão and Dalila, Megalona Princess, Teodora Maiden - it was also puted in charge to create the Lampião myth, portraied it with strong dose of heroísmo.As humiliated populations saw in it one ídolo and when it was joined Pretty Maria, in cangaço, the two had formed a romantic pair that turned celebrity. They had been the kings of cangaço.