| Summary: | This work aims at reflecting on the popular short story. Initially, its
fundamental characteristics and its specificities as a genre, its classification, language and its
elements will be presented. Then, after this general approach, the work will discuss the
relations between the popular short story and the myth. In order to illustrate and reaffirm
the importance and richness of the popular short story, as well as its faint borders with the
myth, an Indian short story will be presented; it was chose among the 21 Indian-origin
Brazilian popular short stories gathered by author Silvio Romero. A brief analysis of this
short story will be made, having as main theoretical tool the theory proposed by Alan
Dunces, North American, in its book The Morphology of North. American Indian folktales and
others essays (1996).
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