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Boogeymen, Spirits, and Specters: Stories of Fear, Wonder, and Haunting from Brazil

Deborah Schindler speaks at the National Museum of Language on October 23, 2011. Learn about scary beings who come out at night, forest spirits who punish unwary travelers and victims of spells, curses and transformations. Brazilian language is an amalgam of characteristics from three major cultural groups: Native American, European and African. The oral literature of Brazil has absorbed, blended and reprocessed these influences into an incredibly varied body of myths, stories, fables and legends. This lecture explores different categories of scary stories from Brazil. Few of the stories that will be discussed have been translated into and published in English. (Content may not be appropriate for children.)