The Enchanted Stone
This legend says that in the Working District there was a great stone that prevented the access to a remote part of the city, which was dark and marshy. This enchanted stone had the power to grant any wish; material objects, money, love, a job, goods or help with revenges. They said that it had a memory and all information was stored inside. It also had the power to punish the children who were disobedient with their parents, thus gaining the especially naughty children.
The adults maintained this legend to control their children, but above all, to keep the children away from this spot, since it was a place used for lover encounters.
The Gargoyles
This Gargoyle is an imaginary creature that has taken the form of a small white dog. This animal appears when lovers have affairs and it scares them with a weeping, similar to one of a newborn baby. It is believed that you could catch this animal and manage to taint its forehead with black carbon; the foreheads of the people that caught this animal would also be tainted black.
Ecuador's End
Ecuador had been sevent presidents in a period of ten years, that makes that the country be econimic unsatable, Moreover its around by volcano chain, the myths of ancestors say that ecuador is not end by volcanos, that is going end bye the bad goverments.
A legend consists of the creation of an event or story that goes along with the everyday life of the city and its inhabitants. And they keep that leyends and myths because traditions have to continue.
Bibliography
http://www.cuenca.com.ec/
No comments:
Post a Comment