Antonio Herrera was a storyteller, a creator full of fantasy and his work has reached this time through oral expression, so it came with all the influences of those who transmitted it. If Barón Herrera had had the chance to write his fantastic creations, today he would enjoy a work full of imagination and Creole popular wealth.
Some of his most popular stories were:
• "One day the baron went to the bush to hunt a jíbaro pig, he was going with several of his hunting dogs, when suddenly one of those animals approached them quickly and two of the dogs threw themselves into their ears; but as soon as he arrived He was lost again in the bush, but with the baron's two dogs hooked in his ears.
The next year, the Baron returned to the same place and for the same purpose, when suddenly he heard that a tremendous noise was coming that made firecrackers, then he could see that it was the same pig from the previous year that had taken his two dogs in the ears. To his surprise he saw the skeletons of his dogs still attached to the ears of that great animal. "
• In a 1967 publication this story of his appeared:
"Once Baron Herrera came to a swamp and tied his horse in a palm. He started to walk and heard a noise. When he looked back, the horse and palm were gone. The palm had grown on the shell of a jicotea very old from the swamp. "
• "One day when he went to the South to hunt with his dog he heard a noise. When he looked he saw the dog fighting with a crocodile. To try to help the dog, he took the machete to hack the crocodile, but the blow failed him, Giving the dog: Since the machete was very sharp, he broke the dog in two. Seeing that misfortune and without wasting time he reached out to a majagua to sew it, but in the rush he was wrong, sewing one half of the dog up and another to down.
Thus the dog walked a few times with both paws on one side and then turned when tired and walked with the two paws that were left on top. With the bottom eye he looked at the pigs and with the top one at the hutias. "
• "Once in the South, he wanted to correct. When he took off his pants, he put the watch on a matter. But he finished and forgot his watch. After about 12 years he passed by that place again, hearing the tick of the clock, which came from inside a tree trunk. He split the log with an ax and found the clock ticking. "
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