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5 days ago · Many anthropologists have drawn a distinction between “witch” and “sorcerer”. This difference was popularly noted by anthropologist E. Evans Pritchard in his classic work on witchcraft among the Azande of Africa. A similar distinction has been made in rural Tlaxcala and elsewhere in Mexico.
5 days ago · La Llorona is an indigenous woman who is portrayed as a traitor to her people by passing information to the Spaniards, which leads to their defeat. She is seduced by a conquistador who later abandons her for a Spanish lady; driven mad by her lover’s betrayal, she drowns herself and her unborn child in the lake.
5 days ago · The legend of La Llorona, the weeping woman, has terrified generations. This female ghost wanders in the darkness, crying as she searches for the children she murdered. How could a murderous mother become such a cultural symbol?
1 day ago · According to Father Gregory Pine, O.P., another theory says that the tonsure was used as a tool to differentiate clerics from the general population. In a podcast interview with host Matt Fradd, Father Pine was asked why he does not have a monk haircut.
5 days ago · Ultimately this identity as La Malinche became merged with that of La Llorona, a ghostly weeping woman who lures men to their deaths and wails in the night for her children in whose death she herself has been complicit.
5 days ago · A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction using nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday in South Texas.
5 days ago · A Catholic Priest’s Heroic Saint List: 3 Holy Warriors the Church Can Look To. Nov. 10, 11, and 12 are a trio of saints’ feast days that have long captured my attention: Saint Leo the Great, Saint Martin of Tours, and Saint Josaphat.
