Question

una leyenda costarricense en ingles ?

Answer 1

THE BODY WITHOUT BUEYES Version A
He lived in a hamlet of old San José, a village of wagons, simple people and creyencera; a witch who was in love with the most gallant of the village boys.
The boy because of his great attachment to his Christian faith did not want to have anything with her but the witch using artifices, managed to conquer and thus live with him for a long time, making him a similar being to her.
As you can see, no one was in agreement with this union, much less the priest of the people, who in his sermons denounced the fact, as the years went by, that boy, who was older, had an incurable disease and asked the witch to died, give him the holy offices in the temple of the place.
When he asked the priest for the last request of his beloved the witch received the refusal because of the sin dragged into his life.
The witch said good and bad and when his man died, he "ennobled" the oxen to the wagon and put the box with the dead body, took his broom, his machete and went to the temple.
The oxen went very fast, but when they arrived at the door, the priest told them "in the name of God to stop," the animals paid attention, but not the witch who blasphemed against the sacred.
The priest forgave the oxen for having listened and the witch, the cart and the dead still roam the world, and some nights the wagon wheels are heard passing through the streets of the towns dragged by the hairy hand of the very devil

Answer 2

A legend (Latin, legenda, “things to be read”) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participants, includes no happenings that are outside the realm of “possibility”, defined by a highly flexible set of parameters, which may include miracles that are perceived as actually having happened, within the specific tradition of indoctrination where the legend arises, and within which it may be transformed over time, in order to keep it fresh and vital, and realistic.