duende

• “[76] While the term duende is Spanish, the other three spirits mentioned -- tigbalang, iki, mananangal -- are good old native demons.”

  Filipino Popular Tales

• “Their website talks about the Spanish word "duende" -- which literally means something like”

  Gearwire -

• “The duende is a force not a labour, a struggle not a thought.”

  The Huffington Post: Hadani Ditmars: Duende Comes to Vancouver

• “In fiction, I want a powerful narrative voice that soars off the lyric register with wrenching regrets, achieving what Lorca described as duende, or deep song.”

  Living With Music: Dean Bakopoulos - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com

• “A duende is the ghost of a child who has died before it can be baptized: and there are many such children in Pavo, because Father Ignacius is such a wicked priest.”

  DC's

• “The duende is a power, not a work; it is a struggle, not a thought ....”

  theatre notes

• “He says, George Frazier, the writer who really popularized the term 'duende' [extraordinary sense of style], never wore a bow tie.”

  Bow Ties

• “Indeed, Galván seems to achieve the near impossible feat of embodying flamenco's "duende", or demon, while avoiding its clichés.”

  Evening Standard - Home

• “As Rodericks would say, the man just lacks "duende" ...”

  Blog updates

• “We know now from personal experience that Mexicans, especially indigenous folks, love these dogs to an almost obsessive degree and consider her, as do we, a duende, not a dog.”

  See You Later, Mr. Chan*

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