Costa Rican Folktales

1. LA TULEVIEJA

1.1. old lady everyone in town makes fun of

1.2. she wears a big hat, wanders around naked and has batwings

1.3. she flies and attacks whoever is under sin

2. IMAGES

2.1. women's beauty with animal's ugliness

2.2. naked bodies for their vulnerability

2.3. a woman's sorrow to teach lessons to other women (?)

2.4. violence - rape - disrespect towards women

3. LA LLORONA

3.1. poor, innocent young girl

3.2. attractive

3.3. compares her beauty to other women

3.4. seduced and raped by a problematic man

3.5. faces motherhood when she is not ready to, drowning her daughter on a river

3.6. cries of guilt every day, looking for her daugther

4. LA SEGUA

4.1. a very attractive young girl

4.2. she disgraces her parents

4.3. receives the "punishement" of keeping her attractive body (breats. hips, curves) with a horse head

4.4. she seduces "womanizers" with her body scaring them with her face

5. ALL OF THE FOLKTALES

5.1. disgrace women

5.2. punish them for their "mistakes"

5.3. use their attractiveness as a weapon to their punishment

5.4. don't speak about men's disrespect about women

6. SYMBOLS

6.1. motherhood

6.2. guilt

6.3. suffering

6.4. innocence