The Devil's Horsemen emerge on the magical night of San Juan in an explosion of fire and smoke, flooding the silence of the night with an infernal roar that releases the fury of being contained for a year.
The Devil's Horsemen carry dragonfly wings with which they fly through the night in search of the four-leaf clovers they eat to prevent mortals from finding them and giving them fortune and health.
Legends tell that the Horsemen were seven corresponding to the colors: red, white, black, blue, green, yellow and orange. The first of them, the red horse, the most robust and large is the leader who directs the rest in their search mission. Locals who have seen the horsemen say that the devil himself rides on him.
The Horsemen cross paths and roads leaving horseshoe prints on everything they step on. The rocks and stones that are under their hooves are marked as if they were freshly plowed land. Such is the force of their step.
They also have a snort as strong and cold as the winter winds that make the leaves of the trees and bushes move and fall. Sometimes, the locals point out, the horses after such a tiring search, stop exhausted and their dripping saliva turns into gold bars that if found by a man will bring him luck and make him immensely rich, but when he dies, his soul goes straight to hell.
Legends and superstitions point out that these horses coming from hell were actually men who lost their souls due to their sins and were forced to roam Cantabria for the rest of eternity. The red horse was a man who loaned money to farmers and then seized their properties with dirty tricks; the white one was a miller who stole many sacks from his lord's mill; the black one was an old hermit who deceived people; the yellow one was a corrupt judge; the blue one, a tavern keeper; the green one, a lord of many lands who dishonored and took advantage of many young women and the orange one was a son who out of hatred beat his parents.