Cordel Encantado (English: The Enchanted Tale) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo from 11 April to 23 September 2011.

[2] 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.

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.

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.

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.

In Brogodó, where North Seráfia is headed, an infamous bandit chieftain, Herculano (Montagner Domingos), takes his wife Benvinda (Claudia Ohana) and son Jesuíno to Colonel Gennaro's (Reginaldo Faria) farmhouse.

Outraged, Benvinda swears to never allow her son to join the bandits and live amid the violence, pain, and suffering.

On the trail, a wagon wheel breaks and Cristina sees an opportunity to flee, who runs into the farmers Eusébio (Enrique Diaz) and Virtuosa (Cecilia Ana Costa) and begs them to stay with her daughter.

When the fight between Augusto and the bandits ends, Herculano returns alone to his hiding place and discovers the wreckage of the cart at the bottom of a cliff.

Nicolau reappears and makes up a story of bandits running away with Cristina, Aurora, and the treasure in a cart to Augusto, while he tells Ursula that he got rid of them.

Angelica is Timóteo's (Bruno Gagliasso) mother, and dies in childbirth without knowing her daughter Antonia (Luiza Valdetaro).

Things get complicated for the couple when Gennaro dies, and Timóteo, who just arrived from Rio de Janeiro, takes the place of the father on the farm.

When the mayor of Brogodó, Patácio (Mark Caruso), and his wife, Ternurinha (Zeze Polessa), learn that Açucena is Aurora, they invite the press to find out more about her.

To meet Timóteo, Jesuíno gathers his friends Galician (Renan Ribeiro), Quiquiqui (Marcello Novaes), and Setembrino (Glicério Rosario) to act against him.

Timóteo appears in the confusion and announces to the guests that Cicero (Miguel Romulus), the bride's brother, is dead and that the account responsible for this is the Herculano.

Açucena decides to become a princess of Seráfia after she sees Jesuíno and Doralice (Nathalia Dill), Patácio's daughter, kissing.

Jesuíno saves Açucena from a kidnapping attempt masterminded by Timóteo, and takes her to his home in Vila da Cruz.

Timóteo announces to the city that the cardinal of Seráfia will make him king and bless his engagement to the princess after he forces Augusto and his Petrus to be his slaves.

Augusto acknowledges that Jesuíno has a right to the throne as a descendant of Serafim of Avila, and offers him the crown and his blessing to marry Aurora.

When the king gives up looking for Aurora in Brazil and returns to Seráfia, Zenóbio tells him that he will stay in Brogodó because he is charmed by the flora, fauna, and Florinda (Emanuelle Araujo).

The couple gets married and have three daughters: Rose (Isabelle Drummond), Dulcina (Barbara Maia), and Zig (Caio Manhente).

Neusa (Heloise Périssé), the Delegate Batoré's (Osmar Prado) controlling sister, is envied by all the women of Brogodó, who think Farid is the ideal husband.

After returning to Brazil, Augusto is enchanted by Maria Cesária (Lucy Ramos), who he sees for the first time in Patácio's kitchen.

Inácio (Maurício Destri), Prince of Northern Seráfia, and Antônia (Luiza Valdetaro), Timóteo's sister, are in love and plan to get together, but the couple's marriage is prevented by Batoré, her bridegroom, who does not want to lose his bride.

Vicentina Celeste is the super star of the capital and is dead jealous with the choice of a new artist, but can only do silent films on account of her shrill voice.