Rafael Ramírez de Arellano’s Puerto Rican folklore work

Record summary

Rafael Ramírez de Arellano was a significant Puerto Rican collector and writer on legends, customs and popular belief during the first half of the twentieth century. His work offers identifiable material for tracing island versions of apparitions, enchanted places, saints’ legends and rural encounter narratives. It is especially useful for comparing Spanish, African and Indigenous survivals as they were framed by local intellectuals. Exact titles, dates and editions should be established in library catalogues because some references circulate through later anthologies rather than stable online records.