Figure 1.

The Shepherd of Son Servera. In 1820, an outbreak of plague occurred in the eastern part of the island of Majorca, resulting in significant mortality and demographic effects in the area. Physicians actively investigated the entry and transmission of the disease at the time. The events inspired imaginative literary interpretations that, while diverging from reality, contributed to the emergence of a legend. Interestingly, this legend, which is now widely accepted as factual, revolves around a mysterious figure -an unnamed young shepherd. According to the legend, this enigmatic personage supposedly contracted the plague by handling a cape abandoned in a tomb where the body of a subject who succumbed to the plague disease would have been buried, without the knowledge or approval of local authorities. The supposed plagued, hypothetical starting point and source of the epidemic would have been disembarked from a ship without an identified name, with origin attributed from Tangier [22].