La Llorona, the Weeping Woman
This year's Halloween episode is about La Llorona, the tale of a ghostly woman weeping for her children. It's told all over Latin America, and while it doesn't have a historical basis in fact (as far as we know), it still says a lot about history, from Aztecs to Spaniards to what it has meant to be a woman.
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