Benedito

Description

Elderly African in Rua da Laranjeira, Salvador, who taught capoeira to the ten-year-old Vicente Ferreira Pastinha; by some accounts a native of Angola.

Students (1)

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  Mestre Pastinha

  swordsCapoeira Angola Probable

  Probable

  Single source; Green and Svinth repeat it from Assunção.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Single source; Green and Svinth repeat it from Assunção.

  “One day, Benedito, an elderly African living in the same street who had been watching his plight, offered to teach him a means of self-defence”

  — Assunção, Matthias Röhrig. (2005). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Artlink info

  “According to some accounts, Benedito was a native of Angola.”

  — Assunção, Matthias Röhrig. (2005). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Artlink info

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