Abstract
The present research proposal aims to investigate the way in which supernatural theme ballads take on a particular and even innovative role in Brazilian romanticism. For this, three ballads by authors of Brazilian ultra-Romanticism, "Octavio and Branca or the Curse of the Mother", by Cardoso de Meneses; "My dream", by Álvares de Azevedo and "Orgia dos duendes" by Bernardo Guimarães. The c…