Cordel Encantado (English: The Enchanted Tale) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo from 11 April to 23 September 2011. It has been re-aired in Globo's Vale a Pena Ver de Novo since 14 January 2019. Synopsis Miguezim (Matheus Nachtergaele), a preacher in Brogodó, and Augusto (Carmo Dalla Vecchia), monarch of the kingdom of North Seráfia, have the same prophetic dream. Augusto asks for Amadeus' (Zé Celso Martinez) counsel to decipher it, who tells him that the images represent a long journey that will lead the king to the southern hemisphere; on the trip, a precious commodity will be sacrificed, but in return, the kingdom can finally know happiness and justice. The series' protagonist—Princess Aurora Catherine Avila Seráfia (Bianca Bin), daughter of Augusto and Queen Cristina (Alinne Moraes)—is born during the war between North and South Seráfia, who have been fighting each other for years after a revolution. The agreement to end the fighting is sealed on the deathbed of South Seráfia's monarch, Theobald (Thiago Lacerda). Seeing her badly injured husband after another terrible battle, Queen Helena (Mariana Lima) goes to North Seráfia and curses Augusto's family. Augustuo is moved by Helena's pain, and at Cristina's suggestion, proposes a deal to Theobald: their firstborns Aurora and Felipe (Jayme Matarazoo) are to marry when they become of age to unify and bring peace to the two states. Theobald accepts the agreement and dies soon after. The two children are presented publicly as the future king and queen of Seráfia. Following the dream interpretation made by Amadeus, a long journey is planned. Zenóbio Alfredo (Guilherme Fontes), a North Seráfian botanist, who was in Brazil for research, reports a treasure hidden in tropical lands by the kingdom's founder, Archbishop Seraphim. The botanist suggests that the king finance an expedition to Brogodó, and Augusto, a lover of science and adventure, agrees and is keen to lead the enterprise. He has Cristina and Aurora accompany him. Ursula (Débora Bloch), Augusto's sister, and Nicolau (Luiz Fernando Guimarães), the bumbling butler court and Ursula's lover, scheme to get rid of Cristina and Aurora during the trip to become queen. Petrus (Felipe Camargo), her husband and Augusto's younger brother, overhears their plot, but is captured by them and held in a dungeon with his identity concealed. Ursula claims her husband has died. In Brogodó, where North Seráfia is headed, an infamous bandit chieftain, Herculano (Montagner