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05-04-2005, 11:41 AM
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No coincidence that Cuba had the largest Canary Island immigration in the entire Caribbean, and goes to show how much of current literature and musical production is influenced by folk tales and songs. I learned that the Mexican singer Ana Gabriel produced a song with the lyrics of 'a la orilla de un palmar'.
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11-22-2006, 05:56 AM
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I very much agree with you. I had heard it compared to the European mermaids, beautiful and cruel, innocent and not quite human. She supposedly was so beautiful that men followed her into the forest, but following her tracks was difficult, as she left footprints that pointed in the opposite direction. The promise of a beautiful woman was their perdition.
There's a large sculpture of a ciguapa on the Boulevard de la 27.
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Does anyone have a photo of this sculpture?
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11-22-2006, 06:15 AM
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After reading about the galipote/baca, I was wondering if anybody else knows Dominican Folklores. When I visit DR, I always love to talk to my cibao relatives they have the best stories about witches, backward web-footed females, "indios", etc.
PS: What is the names of the backward web-footed females?
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Does anyone know anymore stories about Dominican witches or any other kind of supernatural creatures?
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11-22-2006, 08:37 AM
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Does anyone know anymore stories about Dominican witches or any other kind of supernatural creatures?
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I suggest you go down to the DR's deep south (el sur profundo), particularly the region between San Juan de la Maguana and the border with Haiti. The stories aren't stories there, people actually perceive and live with this stuff. I'm willing to introduce you to some of my relatives south of San Juan de la Maguana, where there is no electricity (or running water), and story telling at night is a sophisticated and necessary art...
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11-22-2006, 09:51 PM
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I suggest you go down to the DR's deep south (el sur profundo), particularly the region between San Juan de la Maguana and the border with Haiti. The stories aren't stories there, people actually perceive and live with this stuff. I'm willing to introduce you to some of my relatives south of San Juan de la Maguana, where there is no electricity (or running water), and story telling at night is a sophisticated and necessary art...
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We dont have that tradition anymore around Sonador, except possibly way up in the loma, and I am about to find that out; but people round there still believe in the baká and other mythical creatures. word is that Tony Induveca has a baká! My wife says she has heard it howling at night.
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11-23-2006, 01:42 AM
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Macocael, what is the story on the Baka?
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11-25-2006, 10:46 AM
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The one we got roaming around sonador or just bakás in general? Ha! Actually just yesterday I came across a book about all the various Dominican mythic creatures, over in the Pichardo used book store on Reyes. Bakás (or more correctly, vacá) are a kind of tropical werewolf beastie: a supernatural animal that, like a zombie, belongs to a particular person (I guess through some sort of diabolical contract) and does his presumably evil bidding. The story in Sonador is that the Induvecas achieved their wealth and power partly through the assistance of a vacá.
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11-25-2006, 11:46 AM
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.... The story in Sonador is that the Induvecas achieved their wealth and power partly through the assistance of a vacá.
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In the DR countryside, and some major towns, a person's sudden wealth is attributed to three possibilities. One, he found a burried treasure from the time of the Buccaneers. Two, he hit big time through graft or other illegal activity And three, he bought himself a baká. A baká is a supernatural creature, akin to the genies of lore, for which the owner has made a transaction for its services. The transaction can involve the owner's own life, or the life of close relatives or significant others. I got mine in Haiti, and nurtured it from an egg. It protects me and my herd. And when payback time comes around, my mother-in-law has been signed-up (unwillingly) as collateral.
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11-25-2006, 02:15 PM
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It protects me and my herd. And when payback time comes around, my mother-in-law has been signed-up (unwillingly) as collateral.
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Are you serious about that?
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11-25-2006, 03:09 PM
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Are you serious about that?
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After reading some of our fellow poster's comments on Sosua DA's "bungled" arrest, we should be open-minded enough to believe nearly anything, including hocking your mother-in-law for a baká's services.
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