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"Legend of El Sombrerón" is the title of one of the short stories in Guatemalan Nobel-prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias' 1930 collection Legends of Guatemala. In 1950, El Sombrerón became the subject of an eponymous film, one of the first films shot in Guatemala.
In Guatemala, the legend is more common in Guatemala City, Antigua Guatemala (the old colonial capital) and the eastern departments of the country. [14] The most common variant in these areas is that where the spirit has the face of a horse. [14] In Guatemala the Siguanaba is often said to appear to men who are unfaithful in order to punish ...
There is a fairly large member of the weasel family, the tayra, which is called a cadejo and is cited as a possible source of the legend. In Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua, the dog-like creature is known as El Cadejo. It is said to look like a dog, has deer-like hooves, and moves like a deer.
Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala, 1930) was the first book to be published by Nobel-prizewinning author Miguel Ángel Asturias. The book is a re-telling of Maya origin stories from Asturias's homeland of Guatemala. It reflects the author's study of anthropology and Central American indigenous civilizations, undertaken in France, at ...
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In Spanish, duende originated as a contraction of the phrase dueñ(o) de casa, effectively "master of the house", or alternatively, derived from some similar mythical being of the Visigoth or Swabian culture given its comparable looks with the “Tomte” of the Swedish language conceptualized as a mischievous spirit inhabiting a dwelling.
FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands guard as Guatemalan migrants walk after arriving at La Aurora Air Force Base on a deportation flight from the U.S., in Guatemala City, Guatemala, November 8, 2024.
An urban legend, myth, or tale is a modern genre of folklore. It often consists of fictional stories associated with the macabre, superstitions, ghosts, demons, cryptids, extraterrestrials, creepypasta, and other fear generating narrative elements. Urban legends are often rooted in local history and popular culture