Myths, legends, and folklore specific to the setting's culture add an authentic magical touch, like Mexican folk healing rituals in a story set in Mexico. This gives the magic layers of symbolic meaning. Subtle Magic The magic needs to be downplayed so it blends seamlessly into the realism....
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Mural painting is the art of painting directly on walls, ceilings, or other large permanent surfaces, often telling a story or making a point. Diego Rivera, a renowned Mexican muralist, used his art to address the social and political lives of the Mexican people. The Belfast murals in North...
American Indian mythology can be divided into three major cultural regions: North Americancultures(from the Eskimos to the Indians along the Mexican border), Central and South American urban cultures, and Caribbean and South American hunting-and-gathering and farming cultures. Though each region exhibi...
writes of Mexican and Italian cultural Catholicism. Richard Rodriguez, inDarling: A Spiritual Autobiography(2013), considers the Catholic imagination’s connection toJudaismandIslamas well as the role ofqueer sexuality. Although Rodriguez is gay and the son of Mexican immigrants to theUnited States,...