Los cuentos populares de la parroquia El Valle de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The thesis project entitled The parish folktale "The Valley" in the city of Cuenca, has as its primary objective the analysis of folktales transmitted orally. Folk tales of the research were collected with the cooperation of the people of "The Valley"; these in turn were analyzed. It was also found that stories consist of characters related to religion, such as: the devil, the Virgin, Jesus and religious times such as Holy Week, especially on Good Friday. Likewise, events are narrated and directed towards a moral teaching. Sometimes the characters are animals, so that the action of personification is used. In terms of time and space, concepts Ubidia, who emphasizes that folktales only refer to a time long ago, and also the location depends on the narrator was reaffirmed. The project emphasizes that a key feature is the language used by people to tell folk tales, then, has a mix of Spanish and Quechua. Then, as a result, it was found that in the parish "The Valley", the oral transmission of folk tales still persists, however, this persistence is becoming weaker because of modernity and related changes in the current time, while this affects the culture of a people