The
elves are mischievous spirits, according to popular tradition, live in some houses, where they cause noise and disturbance. It is said that if a human watched the dance of the elves
, came to discover that, although it seems that a few hours had passed in the real world would have gone many years.
The elves are a few little men who stand on a rock and dance hat in hand, making an unbearable noise, all walkers to listen to dance the elves must commend his soul to God and move very fast before I enduende .. .
versions about these characters are many, say that these people live in the streams, particularly those whose waters are rushing waters cascade, these places are favorite elves wear hats and dress outlandishly huge and sometimes shoes sandals and other shoes like those circus clowns, their clothing is in agreement with the days of the week, but usually use bright colors, hours meetings are preferred to noon and six in the afternoon.
To the south eastern province of Carchi in Ecuador, there is a place known as goblins, which has been feared for a long time, opening a road goes there way through cliffs to achieve true path to communicate to people with the rest of the country.
Its name comes from a tradition that has been lost, says that when Eve was approaching, including streams and Chillaguagua Chulumhuasi, now known as Elves, used to be an unusual sight: a two o'clock, leaving a lots of little men, the smallest of all playing a drum produced a loud noise, whose sound dancing elves, making rare steps and movements, ponchos and pulled the hair, threw their hats, while consuming a liquid in bottles larger than their own bodies, later approached the outpouring of water and climbed laboriously by a simple rope, then slid sharply over the water falling spectacularly at the foot of the waterfall, making the noise grew and grew, the little men suddenly disappeared, to rise again at six o'clock in the afternoon and repeat the same acts.
Another version is that you can see fairies dancing on the prairies, especially at night and morning fog, allowing the circle to enter the location of the dance, called älvdanser (elf dances) or älvringar ("circle of elves"), but whoever does will become an elder in minutes , without realizing the actual time spent in dance. Urinating in one of these circles cause STDs. Typically, these circles are drawn by a multitude of small mushrooms.
