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Simple Stories in Spanish

La Leyenda de la Tunda

Simple Stories in Spanish

Small Town Spanish Teacher

Spanish, Language Learning, Arts, Stories, Education, Practice, Fiction, Listening, Language, Learning

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🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today’s legend comes from the African communities on the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador. According to legend, the diablo, or devil, seduced a beautiful African princess who arrived on a slave ship. Not knowing he was the devil, she loved him and had many children. One of those children is La Tunda - a very smelly woman who can change her appearance and put people in a trance by feeding them food cooked in her “trasero”, or bum. I think it is important to note that this legend was very ...

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Ola, and I've been veneidos is the legend of simple stories in Spanish.

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Today's legend comes from the African communities on the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador.

0:12.0

According to legend, the Diablo or devil,

0:16.4

seduced a beautiful African princess who arrived on a slave ship. Not knowing he was the devil, she loved him and had many children.

0:27.0

One of those children is Latunda, a very smelly woman who can change her appearance and put people into a trance by feeding them food cooked in her tracero or bum.

0:42.0

I think it is important to note that this or bum.

0:57.0

I think it is important to note that this legend was very likely altered to scare enslaved people into submission, which is not okay. But if we look closer, as an Afro-equatorian writer recently pointed out, perhaps Latunda was just trying to free people from enslavement. As a free woman roaming the jungle, she simply

1:06.0

wanted to bring more people to her way of life. I hope you enjoy the legend of Latunda.

1:16.0

A barco of esclavos

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jega to the city of Esmeraldas in the nation of Ecuador.

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In the barco, I'm a princess Africana.

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The princess is a muckier, very goodita.

1:34.0

The esclavos go on the plantations to work.

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The princess African

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to be a plantation to work here. But Asia... African,

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it's also going a plantation to work. But Asia has plans.

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Hea not want to work hard in a plantation.

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Asia is a princess, not is a esclava.

1:55.0

The spanieles have had control of Ecuador.

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Ayeos not trat been to the esclavos Africanos.

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E

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not treat them

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