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La Llorona is also sometimes identified with La Malinche, the Native American woman who was interpreter to Cortés.
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La Llorona is also sometimes identified with La Malinche, the Native American woman who was interpreter to Cortés.
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Some say La Llorona is Malinche, mistress of Cortés, endlessly lamenting her betrayal of her own Indian people to the Spaniards.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - Mexican-moon-mother? La Llorona 2007
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The legend of La Llorona is one more mystery in this vast, beautiful, exasperating land called Mexico.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - Mexican-moon-mother? La Llorona 2007
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Her ghost, it is said, still prowls at night within the walls of Mexico City bewailing her sacrificed sons, which explains the name Llorona, the Bereaved.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - Mexican-moon-mother? La Llorona 2007
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Perhaps La Llorona was an Indian girl of noble blood who lived with a Spanish gentleman.
Walking the walk, talking the talk - Mexican-moon-mother? La Llorona 2007
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Now they're older, and sometimes they get mistaken for La Llorona, a weeping female ghost from Mexican folklore.
After GQ's Glee photos and Miley Cyrus's new video, a plea Alexandra Petri 2010
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Now they're older, and sometimes they get mistaken for La Llorona, a weeping female ghost from Mexican folklore.
After GQ's Glee photos and Miley Cyrus's new video, a plea Alexandra Petri 2010
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La Llorona: does she seek your children? by Maggie Van Ostrand
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Your mucky river water reminded me of La Llorona, one of the fairy tale that Clarissa Pinkola Estes discusses in Women Who Run with the Wolves.
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