{"title":"The Boundaries Between Folktale and Legend: «The Devil as Bridge Builder» in Catalan Tradition","authors":"Carme Oriol","doi":"10.17561/BLO.V9.10","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The theme of the devil offering to build a bridge in one night in exchange for the soul of the victim has a considerable presence in folk narrative and is widespread internationally. An analysis of the 27 Catalan versions featuring «the devil as bridge builder» as their protagonist shows that these stories vary in nature and can be presented in the form of legend, folktale or etiological story.","PeriodicalId":40453,"journal":{"name":"Boletin de Literatura Oral","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Boletin de Literatura Oral","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17561/BLO.V9.10","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract: The theme of the devil offering to build a bridge in one night in exchange for the soul of the victim has a considerable presence in folk narrative and is widespread internationally. An analysis of the 27 Catalan versions featuring «the devil as bridge builder» as their protagonist shows that these stories vary in nature and can be presented in the form of legend, folktale or etiological story.
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The Boletín de Literatura Oral is a journal devoted to research in hispanic oral tradition. The languages used are English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. The Boletín de Literatura Oral only publishes original articles. The high standard of the editorial process guarantees the quality of each issue. The BLO is published regularly on July 15 of each year. Each number includes the contributions that have been accepted between June 16 of the previous year and June 15 of the year of publication. This is the deadline to submit articles that are published in the current year.