Oralidade, memória e tradição nas narrativas de assombrações na Região do Cariri

Abstract

This thesis, performed at the Masters in History of the Program of Social History of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), has as objective historicize the content of beliefs in apparitions that spread through and built on oral narratives of Cariri, a cultural universe of long duration. As the object of Cultural History with its theoretical implications and methodological, the issue is printed in certain media: in the xylographical image, into the poetry of twine, and in the vocality captured in oral testimony. The results indicate the presence of residual traces of updated demonological influence originated from the Modern Age. Such elements point out to a set of questions little explored in historiographical production of the region. For this reason, our interest in ownership of this object as an indicator of historic cultural understanding on the Cariri.