Juliana and all the deeds described above are based on actual women in my family and on the stories that have been preserved and passed on from my grandmother. We do and did, until my generation, have a long history of daughters born with the snake mark, as my grandmother calls it. There's the belief that it's the mark of a death god, or devil to the Catholics, and that the person born with it has to have it burned in order to protect the children born after and before them.
Also, I had a great aunt who fought in the battle of Puebla during the fight for independence from the French. And she came back home from that with a rifle and a cane. She would make people kneel when they asked for her blessing. She was badass. Never married. And my mom's aunt did in fact shoot her husband in the leg when he hit her, and then she packed her bags and went North.
There have been, and are, some inspiring women in my family history. Sadly, most of what's left for a lot of us is just what the family can preserve in writing or orally.
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Juliana and all the deeds described above are based on actual women in my family and on the stories that have been preserved and passed on from my grandmother. We do and did, until my generation, have a long history of daughters born with the snake mark, as my grandmother calls it. There's the belief that it's the mark of a death god, or devil to the Catholics, and that the person born with it has to have it burned in order to protect the children born after and before them.
Also, I had a great aunt who fought in the battle of Puebla during the fight for independence from the French. And she came back home from that with a rifle and a cane. She would make people kneel when they asked for her blessing. She was badass. Never married. And my mom's aunt did in fact shoot her husband in the leg when he hit her, and then she packed her bags and went North.
There have been, and are, some inspiring women in my family history. Sadly, most of what's left for a lot of us is just what the family can preserve in writing or orally.