Lightning storms, tempests, dark nights, half-ruined churches, castles and monasteries, or forest meadows flooded with moonlight, quietly moving ponds, dreamy, murmuring streams: this volume of short stories brings together some of Bécquer's most beautiful legends, in which his love of the mysterious becomes clear. “Like the magician in a fairy tale, the poet mesmerizes his readers so that they follow the mysterious events, breathlessly and without emotion, forgetting that everything is merely a play of vivid poetic imagination.”