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La leyenda de La niña araña del panteón en Guanajuato, México: De la versión oral del narrador don Luis Marín a los remedos de internet

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    Medrano de Luna, Gabriel
    Main Author:
    Medrano de Luna, Gabriel

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
    Form / Genre:
    text (article)
    Published:
    2020
    In:
    Boletín de Literatura Oral ISSN 2173-0695 nº 10, 2020, pags. 11-26
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    In this article, I edit and analyze an oral legend that was communicated to me by don Luis Marín (b. 1943), great repository of the oral tradition of Guanajuato (Mexico) in 2018. It is a legend known in the state of Guanajuato as "The Spider Girl," and in other traditions as "The Taxi Driver of the Souls" or "The Driver of the Ghost Woman." It tells how a young ghost asks a taxi driver to take her to the graveyard, which she gets into by climbing up the walls; the taxi driver ends up dying because of the impression produced by that vision. I also analyze other versions: oral, published in the press and published online (in written format and in video format) related to the graveyard of the city of Guanajuato and the nearby city of Salamanca. They are much poorer (especially the Internet versions) than don Luis Marín's oral version. I also refer to the parallels in other Hispanic countries and throughout the world.


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