When he likes one in particular, he follows her, braids her hair, and serenades to her with his silver guitar; but he also puts soil in her plate and she is not able to eat or sleep.
El Sombrerón appears at dusk, dragging along a group of mules carrying coal, with whom he travels around the city and its neighborhoods.
When a woman responds to his love, he ties the mules to the house's pole where she lives, unhooks his guitar, and starts singing and dancing.
Some residents from the neighborhoods of La Recolección and Parroquia Vieja say he still wanders at nights when there is a full moon.
He began to sing her a song, but at that moment her parents found out she was outside and made her go back inside the house.