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Mytos y leyendas de los Aztecas, Incas, Mayas y Muiscas (Myths and Legends from the Aztecs, Incas, Mayas and Muisca). Fondo de Cultura Económica. México. ISBN 968-16-0581-0. Perez Reguera García, Alejandra (2002). Pérez Reguera M. de E. Alfonso. México, nación de mítos, valores y símbolos (Mexico: Nation of Myths, Values and Symbols ...
Given the popularity of the legend, there are many works done by “folklorists, literary critics, anthropologists, and feminist writers. Children's books, short stories, novels, and films” are just a few of the ways La Llorona has been inscribed into history. [1]
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
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A duende, according to the Chamorro-English Dictionary by Donald Topping, Pedro Ogo and Bernadita Dungca, is a goblin, elf, ghost or spook in the form of a dwarf, a mischievous spirit which hides or takes small children. Some believe the Duende to be helpful or shy creatures, while others believe them to be mischievous and eat misbehaving children.
The most popular legend about Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl comes from the ancient Nahuas. [citation needed] As it comes from an oral tradition, there are many versions of the same story, along with poems and songs telling this story: Many years before conquistador Hernán Cortés came to Mexico, the Aztecs lived in Tenochtitlan, today's ...
In New Mexican variant collected from informant Guadalupe Gallegos, from West Las Vegas, New Mexico, titled The Bird of Truth, or The Three Treasures, a father warns his three daughters to avoid gossiping, because the king might hear them. And so it happens: the king wears a commoner disguise and spies on the three sisters.
Catrinas, one of the most popular figures of the Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico.. There are extensive and varied beliefs in ghosts in Mexican culture.In Mexico, the beliefs of the Maya, Nahua, Purépecha; and other indigenous groups in a supernatural world has survived and evolved, combined with the Catholic beliefs of the Spanish.