Honduran folklore

Honduran folklore has a great diversity of crafts, tales, legends, music and dances.

Tales and Legends of Honduras

La Llorona

Numerous characters form part of the folklore and popular beliefs of Honduras. Some characters of legend that stand out are:^[1]

• The Cadejo^[2]
• The Goblin
• The Mule herrada
• El Bulero
• La sucia^[2][3] -
• The Cart Ghost
• The Gritón - (the Screamer)
• The Timbo
• El Picudo
• The Cyclops of the Misquito jungle
• La Llorona
• The Taconuda (a female ghost with calf-length hair)
• The legend of the Indian that turned into Tiger (Big Ranch, Esquías, Comayagua)

Creole music

• El Candú - ^[4]
• Pitero (The Armadillo)^[5][4]
• Flores de Mimé^[4]
• El Bananero^[6][4]
• Los inditos^[4]
• El costeño (The man from the [Miskito] coast)^[7]
• El Tartamudo^[4]
• Corrido a Honduras (Run to Honduras)^[4]
• La valona^[4]
• Adios Garcita morena^[4]
• Al rumor de las selvas Hondureñas (To the rumour of the Honduran jungles) by Carlos Maria Varela^[8]

Typical clothing

Traditional costumes have been created since Spanish colonization and exist in Honduras in a diversity of forms, among which the following stand out:

• Campesino
• Copán
• Jocomico^[9]
• Intibucá^[9]
• Cacautare^[9]
• Colonial^[9]
• Opatoro^[9]
• Linaca^[9]

The following is a list of some of the traditional clothing that researcher David Adolfo Flores has documented in several municipalities of the Honduran territory:^[10]

• Clothing of Carrizalón and Tapesco (Aldea Carrizalón municipality of Copán Ruinas, Copán Department)
• Maya ch'orti clothing
• changing room of the Muslims and Christian (Saint Andrés, Ocotepeque Department)
• costumes of the old (Saint Andrés, and Saint Rafael, department of Ocotepeque.)
• clothes of the forastines (Saint Andrés,and Saint Rafael, department of Ocotepeque.)
• Apparel from Santa Barbará (caserío Escondido, Estancia municipality of Santa Bárbara Department, Honduras
• peasant of Santa Barbará, male peasant of Santa Barbará.
• clothing of the Guancasco^{[b 1]} of Gracias and Mejicapa Lempira Department
• apparel of the dance of the garrobo (The Campa, Lempira Department
• Apparel of the mogigangas (Chinda, Gualala and Ilama, department of Santa Barbará),
• Princess-like colonial clothing of the Comayagua Department
• Lamaní, department of Comayagua
• Negrito (municipality of Santa Elena, La Paz)
• La Paz department
• Marcala, La Paz
• Folk blouses from La Esperanza, Intibucá
• Women's clothing of La Esperanza, Intibucá^[12]
• Creole costume of the aldea of Guajiniquil (municipality of Concepción, department of Intibucá), collected by Johann Seren^[13]
• clothing of the Francisco Morazán Department.
• the time of Comayagua.
• costumes of the comparsa of Muslims and Christians of Ojojona and Lepaterique (department of Francisco Morazán)
• Tolupan (mountain of the flower) department of Francisco Morazán
• I brought of the Valley of Agalta (aldea the Avocado, municipality of Saint Esteban, department of Olancho)
• The suit of the Saw of Agalta. (aldeas The Avocado, Dead Bull, the Sale, municipality of Saint Esteban, department of Olancho.)
• Suit rof the Coyolar (caserío the Coyolar, municipality of Saint Esteban, department of Olancho.)
• Suit of you Disassemble them (aldea Disassemble them, municipality of San Francisco of The Peace, department of Olancho)
• Suit of Tilapa (aldea of Tilapa, municipality of San Francisco of The Peace, department of Olancho)
• costume of Santa Elena (aldea the Gizzard, municipality of Saint Esteban, department of Olancho)
• Pech clothing (department of Olancho and Yoro)
• Tawahkas clothing (department of Olancho)
• Gracias a Dios suits, Misquito costumes.
• Cortés Department clothing, suit of Omoa (department of Cortés)
• Atlántida clothing, clothes of La Ceiba
• Suits of the etnias afro caribeñas suit of colon, garífuna suit called veluria" of woman suit garifuna of woman called gongnu suit warini (the herald navideño) suit wanarahgua (mascaro) suit of barbaric Indian, suit of the pastorelas suit of the dance of throw them suit of the (game and dance of the Muslims and Christians)
• Native suit of the comparsa of Muslims and Christians of Ojojona and Lepaterique. (Ojojona, department of Francisco Morazán)
• clothes of the blacks of Gracias and Mejicapa (Graces and Mejicapa, department of Lempira.)
• Suit of the danzantes of San Sebastián, Lempira (the dance of the crowns between San Sebastián and Mejicapa)
• Suit of the Muslims and Christian (Saint Andrés, department of Ocotepeque.)
• Suit of the garrobo (The Campa, department of Lempira.)
• Mogigangas costumes^[14] in(Chinda, Gualala and Ilama, department of Santa Barbará, Francisco Morazán Department),
• Suits of the forastines (Saint Andrés, department of Ocotepeque.)
• Suits of the olds (Saint Andrés, department of Ocotepeque.)
• Tolupan suits (Mountain de la Flor, department of Francisco Morazán

Dance in Honduras

Honduras folkore is very varied and interesting by the cultural elements that result in four big racial groups (native, Spaniards, blacks and mixed), each department has his own traditions, changing room, music and beliefs, for example:

Aboriginal music

The music of the Lenca, traditions, in addition to other groups originating from the pre-Hispanic tribes. Some of the pre-Hispanic musical instruments are the Aerófonos, the Frogs of Mud (type of whistle made from clay or mud), etc.

Music and dances

Cultural and ethnic investigations Honduran, reflect the existence of the present dances and dances folklóricas:

• The Tusa
• Cachazas With Milk
• The Trompezón
• The Estaca
• The Lima
• The cascareño
• La Campesina (The Peasant Woman)- originally from the Olancho department^[15]
• It starts Clods of new hope
• In front of The Guatalera
• The Polka of the Roses
• The sueñito
• The Polka Run(breezes of the air)
• The Index cards
• The Lilies or Danzaon
• Tat-Sap (Misquito origin, was made famous by the national chains during the political crisis of the 2009)
• The piece of the Indian
• The palito green
• Polka markada
• The regalito
• Zapateado paceño^[16]
• The Comb
• Macheteado Musical

Dances of Ethnic Groups

Dances of Lenca origin

Popular image of "The Dance of the Garrobo" by Arturo Sosa for the CCET.

• El Baile del Garrobo (Dance of the Iguana), a guancasco^[17]
• Baile de las Coronas (Dance of the Crowns)
• Baile de los moreno chico (Dance of the Dark Boy)
• El Baile de los huevos (Dance of the Eggs)
• El Baile del Bandereo
• el Baile de los diabolitos (Dance of the Little Devils)

Garifuna music and dances

• Punta - This is the only music played at Garifuna wakes^[18]
• Parranda
• Mascarones
• El Barreño - the washbowl
• el Sueñito - the little dream

Honduran folkorists

• Henry Leonel Andean (Researcher and collector of dances like El corridito, El corrido de Don Juan, "The Polka of Apakunka" and "The dance of the Junquillo", Director of the Group Yaxall of Honduras)
• Professor Diógenes Orlando Álvarez Rodas (Choreographer and Investigator) Dances like Los Lirios (The Lilies), El Danzón and La campesina (The Peasant Woman), among others
• Doctor Jesús Aguilar Paz (music and folk habits)
• Jesús Muñoz Tábora (director of the department of the National Folklore in the 80's)^[19]
• Jorge Montenegro - Compilation of tales and national legends
• Luis Castellón (collected dances such as: Destrocon, Polca of the dish, for example)
• Professor Pompilio Ortega
• Rafael Manzanares Aguilar
• Rafael Rubio
• Sebastián Martínez Rivera (writer on Honduran folklore)^[20]
• Tania Pinto de Moran (Folcloróloga National)
• Wilberto Allan Bonilla Rios^[21] - Collected dances such as: La pulgita (The Little Flea), Arranca terrones de Nueva Esperanza (Pull up the clods of Nuevo Esperanza), and Peineta (Comb), among others
• David Adolfo Flores Valladares - folklorist and innovator in Honduran folk dance

See also

• Culture of Honduras
• Folklore
• Literature of Honduras
• Education in Honduras
• Ethnic groups of Honduras
• Art in Honduras
• Gastronomy of Honduras
• Music in Honduras

Notes

1. Guancasco, a Lenca term, refers to a tradition of holding a celebration that unites two groups of people. The Honduran group Café Guanasco made reference to this tradition with their name, and performed in front of the presidential palace in protest of the 2009 coup that removed President Zelaya from office^[11]

External links

• Folklore y Educación: Honduras Editorial Guaymuras, 2000 ISBN 9992633654

References

1. Minasdeoro.info, Historias y Leyendas.
2. Jorge Montenegro (March 12, 2009). "Leyendas de Honduras" [Legends of Honduras]. Cultura Popular (in Spanish).
3. "Leyenda de La Sucia" (in Spanish). Xplorhonduras.
4. Rafael Rubio (July 2, 2008). "CANCIONES FOLKLÓRICAS Y COSTUMBRISTAS DE HONDURAS" (in Spanish).
5. "El Pitero Canciones Folkloricas de Honduras" [The Armadillo: Folk Songs of Honduras]. xplorhonduras (in Spanish).
6. "El Bananero" (in Spanish). xplorhonduras.
7. Baron Pineda (April 4, 2006). Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. Rutgers Emergency Press. p. 227 – via Google Books.
8. Sabino Gamez (July 16, 2011). "Nocturnal: tributo a San Pedro Sula". www.laprensa.hn (in Spanish). La Prensa.
9. Los Bacabs. "Honduras Cultural".
10. Adolfo Flores, David. Historia del Vestuario Folklorico de Hondura.
11. James J. Phillips (2015). Honduras in Dangerous Times: Resistance and Resilience. Lexington Books. p. 173. ISBN 0739183567 – via Google Books.
12. Dirección Regional de Casa de la Cultura Choluteca. "Traje Indigena de Intibuca" [Indigenous Clothing of Intibuca]. Nuestra Danzas, Nuestra Cultura.
13. "Traje criollo de Guajiniquil". es.orolenca.org. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
14. "Mojiganga no pasan de moda in Honduras" [Mojigangas Aren't Going out of Style in Honduras] (in Spanish). El Heraldo. July 4, 2014.
15. Gustavo Rivera. "La Campesina". Nuestras Danzas, Nuestra Culture (in Spanish).
16. Samai Torres (July 4, 2014). "Honduras tiene diez nuevas danzas folclóricas" (in Spanish). El Heraldo.
17. Carlos Molina (October 27, 2009). "El Baille del Garrobo (La Campa, Lempira)". Cultura Popular (in Spanish).
18. Wendy Griffin (2000). "Perspectives on Punta Dance". Honduras this Week. Stanford University Center for Latin American Studies.
19. Carlos Molina. "Jesús Muñoz Tábora y otros folkloristas catrachos". Retrieved September 7, 2012.
20. Águeda Chávez García (January 31, 2015). "Sebastián Martínez Rivera, primer folclorista en Honduras". La Tribuna (Honduras). Honduras. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
21. "Exaltan a Honduras" [Exalting Honduras] (in Spanish). Diario La Prensa. August 15, 2013.