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A New York Times story by Hubert Saal on flamenco (March 22, 1987) speaks of the “mysterious duende ” as “a kind of gypsy soul, which flies only on the wings of spontaneity and improvisation.”
' The occasions when duende grips a singer, dancer or torero are punctuated with cries of “Olé!”
Pichilingis are similar to duendes (goblins) and are possibly the indigenous version of a duende, and have only been found in the folklore literature of New Mexico.
Like Italian, Spanish has estro , from the Latin oestrus `gadfly' (English estrus ) to denote artistic inspiration (and female sexual heat), but duende goes further.
Duende meant `hobgoblin,' `sprite,' or `ghost' in Spanish for a long time, but it is not known when it acquired its artistic coloration.
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