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batyatoon ([personal profile] batyatoon) wrote2003-11-12 11:36 pm

Street Folklore in Miami

Gacked from [livejournal.com profile] bigscary: The Folklore of Homeless Children.

I am ... stunned. And horrified. And fascinated. And disturbed. And strangely exalted. And deeply moved.

Go. Read.

[identity profile] tibicina.livejournal.com 2003-11-12 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
For a while I was playing in a table-top roleplaying game strongly influenced by those myths and stories. I think it may even have been started by the same article and some other research into La Llarona.

And, in the end, I think that was the reaction most of us had to it as well. It's compelling and heartbreaking all at once. It speaks to the worst and best of the world at the same time.