Anyone heard any version of this story?

Question

I remember hearing a specific story from my grandma/mom. The story goes that there was a handsome young boy who was given everything he ever wanted and thought highly of himself. One day this boy threw a big party for his birthday and invited everyone. He was talking to his friends and told them that the next girl that he saw that was up to his standards on beauty he would ask to dance. And in walks a beautiful girl that he "fell deeply in love with" because of her beauty. They danced the whole night and when it was time for her to go home,he began to walk with her but suddenly the girl changed shape into the devil and a hole appeared that the boy felll into. His parents went looking for him and found him with his hands outside of the hole trying to dig himself out.They began to dig too they discovered the more they tried the more he would fall in. I'm not 100% sure if its true or not but my gma swears it is. Anyone hear any versions like this before or is it just a hispanic folklore?

Well this story I heard, my grandma said that it was true. That the boy in the story was someone she knew growing up and clearly (I'm not sure how clear that is, seeing that she is old) remembers everyone in her town talking about the incident the next day after the party. I'm not saying either that this couldnt be a folklore, I'm just curious to know if there are different versions of the story anyone has heard and what are they? And what backgrounds everyone comes from to see how many cultures have had a similar story. (I'm mexican american btw)

Answer 1

Here's another version. One night a woman is going to a party with her friends. Shortly after arriving, the doors open and a very handsome man walks in. Everybody is stunned by the mans beauty. The man then walks right up to the woman and asks her to dance. The woman is amazed that the man asked her to dance. The woman and man begin dancing and as they dance, he keeps whispering beautiful things in her ear which makes her smile. She even begins to fall in love with the mysterious stranger. They dance for hours and as the clock is about to strike 12, the stranger asks the woman if she would give herself to him for eternity. Just as the woman is about to answer, she glances down and notices that the man doesn't have human feet, but cloven hooves. The woman screams in terror and the man disappears in front of everybody, leaving only the smell of brimstone behind.

Answer 2

Of course it's Hispanic folklore, but it's so inside our moral background I can tell you there's a story about something very similar happening to an uncle (my grandma's uncle, actually).

In this story, he went for a stroll (horseback I guess) and this beautiful woman called him, so he followed, and when he was with her, she was horribly ugly and scratched his face.

Now, I don't know if he was actually trying to justify and cover for his scratched face, (men were naughty in Mexico those days, really, more than nowadays, lol), but the story is said to be true.

The problem is, I heard it again and again, and my grandma's uncle is nowhere in the other versions, so...

Answer 3

It's just Hispanic folklore. These stories teach us about morals and values but were not originally intended to be taken as actually happening.

Answer 4

These are actually Hispanic stories that were told to teach us morals and to keep ourselves out of trouble.

Answer 5

Sounds like pure folklore to me.

Answer 6

it reminds me of this mythology story i remember from high school, his name is Tantalus.


Tan·ta·lus -
–noun, plural -lus·es for 2. 1. Classical Mythology. a Phrygian king who was condemned to remain in Tartarus, chin deep in water, with fruit-laden branches hanging above his head: whenever he tried to drink or eat, the water and fruit receded out of reach.