Estronho e esquésito

For centuries, Scottish folklore has preserved stories where the marvelous and the cruel walk side by side. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree is not a fairy tale in the modern sense, but an ancient oral legend, recorded in the 19th century and passed down through generations as a warning against envy, pride, and the destruction born within one's own home.

There is very little — not to say almost nothing — information available regarding this series, but there are mentions that it was yet another one to ride the success of Nick Carter, under the command of the same director. There is no information even at the Cinémathèque Française, which holds the largest collection of data on films from this era. Only the episode list and a few technical details can be found.

Pola Negri, born Apolonia Chałupiec in Lipno, Poland, on January 3, 1897, was the embodiment of European sophistication in silent cinema. Unlike studio-manufactured stars, she arrived in the United States with a solid artistic background, shaped by the rigorous discipline of classical ballet and Polish theater. 

The tale The Young Woman and the Candle belongs to a recurrent category of Luso-Brazilian folklore: cautionary narratives primarily directed at youth, especially young women, in which disobedience to familial advice results in direct contact with the supernatural. In these stories, certain domestic spaces take on a symbolic function.