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Leyendas Populares de Aparecidos y Animas en Pena en Guatemala (in Spanish). Guatemala City: Artemis & Edinter. ISBN 84-89452-68-7. OCLC 36826444. Lara Figueroa, Celso A. (2001). Por los Viejos Barrios de la Ciudad de Guatemala (in Spanish). Guatemala City: Artemis & Edinter. ISBN 84-89452-24-5. OCLC 66144340.
The fantastic tale of an vengeful crowd taking a shoeshine man from the Church of Mercy (Iglesia de La Merced), where he had taken refuge in the ancient city Gracias a Dios (now Gracias, Lempira). A punishment was meted to the populace after they beheaded him for profaning the sanctuary of the church (vox populi graciana). La Sucia (the filthy one)
For example, La Llorona warns mothers against infanticide, while La Segua discourages men from infidelity. Similarly, the headless priest legend serves as a warning against those that would profane against the holy, or "touch God with dirty hands (Spanish: tocan a Dios con las manos sucias )".
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Cara Sucia is a Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Pacific coastal plain of western El Salvador.It was occupied for some 1,800 years, and is particularly noted as one of the southeasternmost sites of the Late Classic Cotzumalhuapa culture which extended over much of the Pacific drainage of Guatemala and included part of the Salvadoran departments of Ahuachapán and Sonsonate.
Trilogia sucia de La Habana, Lulú le dégagé Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (born 27 January 1950, in Matanzas , Cuba ) [ 1 ] is a Cuban novelist . He grew up in Pinar del Río and began to work selling ice cream and newspapers when he was 11 years old.
La Cihuacoatle, Leyenda de la Llorona is a yearly waterfront theatrical performance of the legend of La Llorona set in the canals of the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, [20] which was established in 1993 to coincide with the Day of the Dead. [21] In 1930s the reference and representation of La Llorona is seen in the production of films.
The Cueva de la Mora in la Pedriza, Manzanares el Real , is reminiscent of stories that are repeated throughout the Spanish geography due perhaps to the long Muslim occupation. There is another legend with this title, collected by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer in his Legends , located in the Navarre town of Fitero .