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• Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
• File Size : 54,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

• Publisher : First Avenue Editions
• File Size : 25,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2008

Expands on a popular Mexican folktale about a ghost that haunts riverbanks at night, crying as she searches for her lost children. Reprint.

• Publisher : Sunstone Press
• File Size : 31,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

A study of the legend of La Llorona, the ghost of a woman whose wailing is thought to be an omen of death. The author has woven together the many

• Publisher : Red Chair Press
• File Size : 49,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 August 2014

La Llorona (The Crying Woman) is a sad and haunting tale from Mexico. Parents have told the story for hundreds of years to misbehaving children and to guard against vanity.

• Publisher : Children's Book Press
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 1995

All her life, Prietita has heard terrifying tales of "la llorona", the legendary ghost of a woman who steals children at night. When she actually encounters the ghost, Prietita discovers

• Publisher : University of Texas Press
• File Size : 25,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 July 2008

"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the consciousness of her folk community. From a ghost

• Publisher : UNM Press
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 16 October 2011

In this powerfully eerie tale by Lucinda Ciddio Leyba, the legend of La Llorona is recast as the tale of a witch intent on doing evil in modern Santa Fe.

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 26,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 April 2019

Have you heard of La Llorona? She is the most popular and infamous ghost in Latino folklore; in fact, the legend of La Llorona, the Wailing Woman, may be the

• Publisher : Snap Books
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

The ghost of a weeping woman dressed in white, La Llorona, is often spotted beside bodies of water. People in Mexico and in the southwestern United States have claimed to

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 30,5 Mb
• Release Date : 29 April 2004

"A new interpretive map of the borderlands as space, trope, meaning, and creative landscape inhabited and reimagined by Mexican and Mexican American peoples. Leon weaves together saints, healers, writers, movements