Los fantasmas en el Quijoteentre la superstición y la influencia de los libros de caballerías

Abstract

In his Qujote, Cervantes parodies the formulaic episodes of chivalric romance, which hadfossilized through the sixteenth century, through creative innovation and irony. While Don Quixoteimposes the literary world on similar elements from reality, Sancho, lacking these bookish referencepoints, refects popular superstitious beliefs, with which Don Quixote himself is not exactly unfamiliar.In this article, I explore those episodes from the Quijote which allude to ghosts, or in which the livingis confused with incorporeal enchanted beings. The adventures begin with the enchanted Moor (I, 17),the dead body (I,19), the nocturnal episode near the fulling mill (I, 20), the cave of Montesinos (II, 22-23)and Doña Rodríguez episode (II, 48). consciousness are very abundant, from their own comments, fromreal authors or textual mediators.