Citations:duende

English citations of duende

mythology

• 1914, Journal of American Folklore, page 238:

  He told them that the duendes were moving with the family: therefore the family moved back to their former quarters.
  How Elves may be Subdued. — Duendes may be driven away in the following manner. Instead of putting away the dishes in the kitchen, place them each night ready for use, with corn-meal dough on the metate.

• 1996, Damiana Ligon Eugenio, Philippine Folk Literature: The Legends:

  The duendes kept on pestering the girl. One morning she could not get up from bed because the duendes were weighing down on her body. Luckily a friend of duendes interceded and freed the girl from the duende’s spell (122). The duende is a very jealous lover. This Petra found out in a Pampango legend. Whenever she spoke with any man, she was bitten and pinched. She could not eat either because as soon as the food touched her lips the duende changed it to earth.

• 2002, J. Rainsnow, The Journey of Rainsnow: One Man's Past-Life Journey - A World's Future (→ISBN), page 38:

  But of all the stories which emerged from La Colombiana's unabashed tongue, the most common and recurrent, by far, were those of los duendes. Duendes are spirits, sometimes mischievous and unpredictable, but usually not malicious, who would probably correspond most of all to our notion of elves. When seen, the duendes often appeared as little, mysterious men, sometimes walking around with large, round hats, or somhreros, on their heads.

extended sense

• 2003, Raul Mendes Silva, Celso Amorim, Missões de paz: a diplomacia brasileira nos conflitos internacionais:

  With the phantom of the war out of the way, another duende appeared: the Soviet Union's ambition of world dominance - which had been left to slumber during the conflict - served by the ideological arm of international communism. In all the debates that I attended during the Conference, the Soviet position was always one of utter intransigence in defending their mediate and immediate interests.

mention, but establishes which folklores have duendes

• 2012, Cram101 Textbook Reviews, e-Study Guide for: Ancient Maya : Rise and Fall of a Rainforest by Arthur Demarest (→ISBN):

  A duende is a fairy- or goblin-like mythological creature from Iberian, Latin American and Filipino folklore. While its nature varies throughout Spain, Portugal, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking America and the Philippines, analogues from other cultures include […]