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The lechuzas are a group of witch owls sent by Cecilia to attack the Garza sisters for wounding her pride. They are as large as vultures with shriveled human faces and scraggly hair. The lechuzas berate the girls in the voices of Mamá, Cecilia, and other women, calling them wicked children and highlighting their greatest insecurities. They can be defeated by tying knots in a silk string while praying. The lechuzas are meant to parallel both Scylla and the Sirens in Homer’s Odyssey.
Lechuzas Quotes in Summer of the Mariposas
The Summer of the Mariposas quotes below are all either spoken by Lechuzas or refer to Lechuzas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13
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With two lechuzas at their backs, they busted out of the barn as if their heels were on fire, never once looking back. Had they abandoned their hermanitas?
I looked at the barn doors noisily slapping back and forth with the force of the storm, and I couldn’t help but feel powerless. The twins’ desertion shattered any hope I had left of defeating the malevolent witches. And for the first time on our journey, I wanted to cry.
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Chapter 15
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“You mean he doesn’t love us anymore?” Pita asked.
“Would you? If you had us for daughters?” Delia asked Pita, looking at her sisters resentfully.
That’s when I realized the evil of what the lechuzas said about us. We had been bad, yes, but was what Papá did our fault? “Yes, I would still love us,” I said, angry with myself for not realizing the twins had been blaming themselves for Papá’s absence all this time. “The way I see it, we didn’t fail Papá, he failed us. He’s the adult here.”
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Lechuzas Quotes in Summer of the Mariposas
The Summer of the Mariposas quotes below are all either spoken by Lechuzas or refer to Lechuzas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 13
Quotes
With two lechuzas at their backs, they busted out of the barn as if their heels were on fire, never once looking back. Had they abandoned their hermanitas?
I looked at the barn doors noisily slapping back and forth with the force of the storm, and I couldn’t help but feel powerless. The twins’ desertion shattered any hope I had left of defeating the malevolent witches. And for the first time on our journey, I wanted to cry.
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Chapter 15
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“You mean he doesn’t love us anymore?” Pita asked.
“Would you? If you had us for daughters?” Delia asked Pita, looking at her sisters resentfully.
That’s when I realized the evil of what the lechuzas said about us. We had been bad, yes, but was what Papá did our fault? “Yes, I would still love us,” I said, angry with myself for not realizing the twins had been blaming themselves for Papá’s absence all this time. “The way I see it, we didn’t fail Papá, he failed us. He’s the adult here.”
