---
language:
- es
tags:
- spanish
- nlp
- folklore
- legends
- mythology
- historical
license: other
pretty_name: Spanish Folklore & Legends Corpus
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Spanish Folklore & Legends Corpus

Historical Spanish-language content collected via the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive).

## Dataset Summary
- **Language**: Spanish (es)
- **Sources**: galiciaencantada.com, celtiberia.net, euskomedia.org, mitos-y-leyendas.com
- **Period**: 2005–2022
- **Topics**: leyendas, mitos, folclore, celtas, meigas, basajaun...
- **License**: Public archive snapshots. Verify rights before commercial use.

## Features
Each record includes automatic labeling:
- `topics`: detected topic tags
- `region`: inferred geographic region (espana_general, cataluna, andalucia, madrid...)
- `era`: linguistic era (web_1_0, pre_social, social_media, movil_first, ia_era)
- `sentiment`: positivo / neutro / negativo
- `sentiment_score`: sentiment intensity -1.0 to +1.0
- `quality_score`: document quality 0–100
- `readability_score`: Flesch readability adapted for Spanish
- `lexical_density`: vocabulary richness 0–1
- `word_count`: total word count
- `entities`: detected flags (has_prices, has_dates, has_quotes...)
- `content_hash`: MD5 deduplication fingerprint
- `captured_at`: original capture date
- `source_domain`: origin website
- `wayback_url`: Internet Archive snapshot URL

## Use Cases
- Spanish cultural heritage NLP
- Mythology and folklore language modeling
- Regional dialect and legend research
- Creative AI applications in Spanish mythology

## Data Collection
Content was collected from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine using an automated pipeline with:
- Respectful crawling delays (2–6 seconds between requests)
- Automatic quality filtering (minimum quality score 70/100)
- MD5-based deduplication
- Spanish language detection

## Contact
For bulk licensing, custom datasets or research collaborations: contact via Hugging Face profile.

## Citation
If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:
```
@dataset{pepere45_spanish_folklore_legends_corpus,
  author = {Pepere45},
  title = {Spanish Folklore & Legends Corpus},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/Pepere45/spanish-folklore-legends-corpus}
}
```