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Among the countless images that populate the human imagination, the snake is one of the most powerful. By composing different narratives around the world, it incorporates cosmogonic, eschatological plots, referring to the renewal of time and the transformation of life, as well as being a synthesis of death and the demonstration of human fragility. From the perspective of the snake image, as a multifaceted, ambivalent and plurisemantic symbol, we seek in this work to understand the different narratives about snakes, in a complex of quilombola communities, called "Complexo Quilombola de Mata Cavalo" or "Quilombo de Mata Cavalo", located in the municipality of Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Mato Grosso, Brazil. From a qualitative approach, based on the cartography of the Imaginary (Sato, 2011), interdisciplinary research on the imaginary and symbolism (Durand, 2002); Eliade (1969, 2008), Chevalier and Gheerbrant (2015), among other authors, we will highlight in this work how snakes enter the community's imagination and move from the natural field to the supernatural, which affect the narrators' actions and bring them closer to other universal symbolic perspectives. Whether in the practices of "benzedeiros" and "benzedeiras", in the Judeo-Christian beliefs disseminated in the communities of Mata Cavalo, in the manipulation of animal parts, in the making of medicines, ornaments, etc., snakes continue to be a synthesis of mysteries and stories, permeated by her characteristics and behaviors, which launch her into this borderless field between culture, nature and supernatural. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]