Michelle Castro
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Michelle Castro is a Cuban-Chicana freelance contributor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She also works as a copywriter, having studied Creative Advertising at Loyola University Chicago. She has a background in improv comedy and has performed in Chicago and her hometown of Los Angeles.
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La Llorona, a mythological woman in Mexican and Latin American oral tradition whose siren-like wails are said to lure adults and children to their untimely deaths. The legend of La Llorona is a popular ghost story that is especially prominent on Día de los Muertos and in Chicano and Latin American…
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