Abstract
This article presents the results of a recent investigation into a conversion narrative that occurred in the Bahia’s hinterland. According to it, a priest named Eusébio Dias Lassos de Lima, in the year 1713, converted the Orizes-Procazes indians, a group considered to be “one of the most barbaric and dangerous of the hinterlands”. By comparing documentation from several archives, including the Torre do Tombo, and analyzing this narrative, it was possible to conclude that this news published in Lisbon in the year 1716, mentioned even in several theses, was put in doubt, being affirmed by contemporaries that everything was nothing but the priest’s invention in collaboration with a Portuguese “editor”. Here we present the intentions, the conditions for producing the news, and the truth regimes that were subsumed in the statements of those involved.
Keywords
Orizes Indians; Hinterlands of Bahia; conversion; fake news; regime of truth