Lloronas, Chupacabras, and Other Creatures Robyn Afrik Pauline Hopkins

Pauline Hopkins

featuring mainly animal protagonists

" -Jim Anderson

for understanding institutions in general

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Lloronas, Chupacabras, and Other Creatures Robyn Afrik Pauline HopkinsThe story of La Llorona the weeping spirit everyone recognizes but no one wants to face has been passed down orally for hundreds of years, spanning nearly all of Latin America and tracing its origins to Mesoamerican myths. Yet despite her prevalence, La Llorona is far from the region's only folkloric monster. Others, such as the Pishtaco, the Qarqacha, or the Curupira, have haunted Latin American cinema throughout the twentieth and into the twenty