Compare/Contrast

All three of my Folklore Across Cultures All three ghost stores have similarities and differences. They reflect the different writing and story-telling styles of the various cultures very well I think.
stories were horror stories. The passages I chose, Dancing with the Devil, Screaming Tunnel, and Girl in White, all share some similarities but also differences because of their varied cultures.
My three stories all had only one or two main characters, one of which was a young girl. Although in only two of them the girl dies, Dancing with the Devil and Screaming Tunnel. The main girl in Girl in White was a ghost, thus she was already dead. Additionally, the main female characters in all three stories seemed to be about the same age, in their mid-teens.
Girl in White, Dancing with the Devil, and Screaming Tunnel are all set in different places. Girl in White’s setting is in Mexico, while Dancing with the Devil’s is in Kingsville, Texas, and Screaming Tunnel’s is in Canada; west of Queen Elizabeth Way in Niagra Falls. Girl in White and Dancing with the Devil, although in completely different locations, are both set at a teenage/high school dance.
The stories’ themes are only similar in a way that they all have a slightly creepy twist to the storyline, otherwise they are all pretty different. Screaming Tunnel is about a girl who’s house catches on fire. But she breaks loose, only to be overwhelmed by the flames and burn to death in an old underground tunnel. Legend has it that anyone who strikes a match in the tunnel will hear the girl’s agonizing screams and a ghostly wind will instantly blow out the flame. While the theme in Dancing with the Devil is a girl secretly goes to her high school dance and unknowingly dances with the devil. As he’s spins her, faster and faster, he spins her all the way to hell. Girl in White is about a boy named Ernesto who is lonely at a local dance. He sees a girl with such great beauty, only to find out later that she is a ghost and must leave him.