L’ogresse dans les Andes et en Amazonie
The ogress is a constant theme in the oral tradition of different peoples. This article compares stories about ogresses told in the central Peruvian Andes (the Aĉkay) and those related to the Waimí Tiara (the gluttonous old woman) who devastates the Brazilian Amazonian region. Oecological contrasts...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Institut Français d'Études Andines
2008-08-01
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| Series: | Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/bifea/3113 |
| Summary: | The ogress is a constant theme in the oral tradition of different peoples. This article compares stories about ogresses told in the central Peruvian Andes (the Aĉkay) and those related to the Waimí Tiara (the gluttonous old woman) who devastates the Brazilian Amazonian region. Oecological contrasts (the high Andean valleys and the Amazonian forest) explain what is specific to each tradition. The influence of European fairy stories —particularly that of the two children abandoned in the woods popularized in the version retold by the Grimm brothers and diffused by colonizers and missionaries— has modified the development of these traditional stories without eliminating their mythological basis. |
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| ISSN: | 0303-7495 2076-5827 |