The Veiled Lady (La Dama Tapada)

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Historical background

The legend takes place during then 1700 years in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Guayaquil had expanded in these years due the dispersion of inhabitants towards the city port, who in wedge formation turned to Guayaquil in motor of the Ecuadorian freedom and emporium of wealth.
The city at the end of century XVII had 4,000habitants and occupied the reduced space between the hill Santa Ana and the matting of Villamar (Loja street) and from the border of the Guayas river to the arms of El Salado. This saturation moved to the neighbors to think about a new change and it moved towards the south, to Port Cazones or Sabaneta (between the present streets Illinghworth and Diez de Agosto). The city was formed in New Cityand Old City and the marshy zone that separated both parts will save by a wooden bridge constructed towards 1710 that crossed the five matting or arms of the sea that crossed the area. After several repairs, the town hall orders to replace it by a spotted road that finalized two years later.

At this time, the houses were of quicha and ceilings of roofing tile, with porches that still todaycomprise of the urban personality of Guayaquil. Its utility was enormous when allowing to thewalkers circular safe from the sun and the rain. The streets until half-full of century XVIII lacked paving, reason why at time of rains, they were impossible to journey.

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Setting
The legend of “The Veiled Lady” appears like a popular belief of year1700 in Guayaquil.
This legend tells the history of a lady who appeared around the average night, but only single men womanizing, that return their houses, to the height of the old cemetery, Boca del Pozo, when lowering of the church of Santo Domingo in the Old City.

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Development

The people affirmed but of once, that The Veiled Ladywas a very beautiful young of the city, daughter of coffee lands properties, who was jeopardize by several years with a Spanish retailer. He had to when and return from the Iberian peninsula, but that in one of his long trips, a relative of the young lady discovered to him in love affairs with a girl, daughter of Spanish retailers that had taken root in Jipijapa, a corner located to the south ofthe province of Manabí, that also traveled frequently to Spain to help her parents.

Then, when her relative returned to Guayaquil told everything to the family of the beautiful young, she after finding out the deceit key in a deep desolation and a month later died of depression. The young Spanish returned later weeks of the death to request excuses to her, but in short, already was too muchbehind schedule.

Since then, people said, to her soul vague by the streets of Guayaquil taking revenge her deceit, and then she has not been able to rest in peacefully because they said that between all those single men womanizing, she looked for that young retailer who destroyed her heart, without knowledge that after her death, he also died of fault.-------------------------------------------------

Plot

One says that The Veiled Lady, is a being of unknown origin that appeared in hours near the midnight to the people who not very frequented concurred alleys.

According to histories related by many people about these events, a young stranger appeared to them, dressing an elegant dress, with fancy fan, but something very particular in her was that it took his face coveredwith a veil, who did not allow that the victims recognized it.


When being near the Lady, one says that it dismissed his surroundings an pleasant fragrance, and for that reason, almost all those that saw it were hit when seeing it and to be near her.
She signaled so that they followed it and, in critical moment, the victims acceded to the cause but she did not allow that the sufficient...