Angelita's Wings
Angelita’s Wings: El Fraile y el Alacran – The Friar and the Scorpion
During the 1800s, the merchant class in Mexico City had goods shipped from Spain and China. Many times ships would get lost at sea to storms or pirates. Then, once arriving to the port of Acapulco and loaded on carts, the goods might be stolen by Zapotec Indians....
Angelita’s Wings: La Luna y El Sol – The Moon and the Sun
The moon in Mexico does not have a face. It has rabbit tracks and ears. No really! It all started when the Moon and the Sun shed equal light upon the earth. The god Tecucuitecal decided to do something about it, so his people could get some rest. Let's see what...
Angelita’s Wings: Las Orejas Del Conejito – The Ears of the Little Rabbit
Las Orejas del Conejito (The Ears of the Little Rabbit), is a legend that comes from the early Toltec days in South America, to explain where the rabbit got his big ears and why no rabbits and no lions can be found anywhere in South America! It so happens that the...
Angelita’s Wings: Popo and Ixy
In this episode of Angelita's Wings, Billie Ruth tells the traditional love story of Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl. In the days of the Aztecs before Moctezuma ruled, this legend of the Sweethearts began in order to explain the existence of two volcanoes that rise high...
Angelita’s Wings: Emiliano Zapata, Zapotec Farmer Hero of Mexico
In this episode of Angelita's Wings, Billie Ruth tells the story of Emiliano Zapata, the Farmer Hero of the Mexican Revolution, who recruited Zapotec peons from the Spanish-owned sugar cane plantations, to make war on them and reclaim their rightful ownership of the...
Angelita’s Wings: Pancho Villa, Robin Hood Hero of Mexico
In this episode of Angelita's Wings, Billie Ruth concludes the story of Doroteo's escape into the mountains wearing a disguise and changes his name to Pancho Villa. He joins up with some bandits who steal from the rich and give to the poor, but over time observes that...
Angelita’s Wings: Indian President Juarez; Followed by Pancho Villa, Part I
In this episode of Angelita's Wings, Billie Ruth concludes the story of Benito Juarez, who becomes a lawyer, marries Maria, and becomes the governor of Oaxaca, and later, the President of Mexico. But many of the Spanish people in Mexico hated him. After capturing him...
Angelita’s Wings: The Girl Who Listened
In this episode of Angelita's Wings, stories from the book Six Heroes of Mexican Independence, by Bonnie Muth MacMillan, continue with the dramatic story of Josefa Ortiz – the girl who listened – as we discover why she is considered one of the major six heroes of...
Angelita’s Wings: Adelita and Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez
In this episode of Angelita's Wings, stories from the book Six Heroes of Mexican Independence, by Bonnie Muth MacMillan, continue with the conclusion of Adelita. The traditional Mexican folk song, Adelita, is sung as one of the men who fell in love with her during the...
Angelita’s Wings: Miguel Hidalgo and Adelita
This episode of Angelita's Wings concludes the story of Miguel Hidalgo, priest hero of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810, and begins the story of the next Mexican Hero, a woman known only as Adelita, who went to war with her husband and became a beloved symbol...
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