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Child of Shadow

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Muma Pădurii aesthetic

Romanian folklore creatures series - VI

Muma Pădurii is an ugly and mean old woman living as a spirit of the forest . She is an evil witch, the opposite of fairies and literally means “the Mother of the Forest”, though “mumă” is an archaic version of “mamă” (mother).

She lives in a dark, dreadful, hidden little house or in the hollows of old trees, and sometimes goes to the huts of those living near the forest to scare them. If a brave man manages to catch and tie her, she will fulfill a wish. She is also thought to attack children, and because of this, a large variety of spells (descântece in Romanian) are used against her.

Indigenous people in what is now Mexico were the first people to domesticate corn 

The oldest human skeleton to be found in the Americas was found in Mexico. The remains date back 13,000 years.

Vanilla was first cultivated by the indigenous people of Mexico

Cacao was also first cultivated by the indigenous people of Mexico which gave us chocolate

Mexico has the largest indigenous population in all of North & South America

Native people of Mexico independently invented the wheel despite claims saying there was no knowledge of it in the pre-colombian Americas

The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of rubber was by the indigenous people of Mexico

The first country in the New World as well as the only one in North America to have an indigenous president is Mexico

Nahuatl, an indigenous language of Mexico, is one of the most (if not the most) spoken indigenous languages in North America with over a million speakers

Turkey’s were first domesticated by the indigenous people of Mexico and all of the commercial domestic turkey varieties today descend from the domestic turkey raised in Mexico

Indigenous people of Mexico had pressurized plumbing before it was introduced to the Americas by Europeans

Their creations -

“It’s not writing, it’s typing” is the same as “I hated this book.” “The structure is not strong” is the same as “I had no idea what it’s about.” One girl said Keruoac was on drugs while the other could name the drug. One girl said it read like it was written in a hurry, the other knew it had been written in 3 weeks. “His experiments in prose style are tedious” is the SAME THING as saying “boring and unorganized”

And I saw this sort of thing a lot in school. As an English major, if I’d said “I hated this book” I would have been lambasted or dismissed by the prof. But if I said “I wasn’t moved by it, I found it tedious” it would have been an insightful remark.