The Mexican myth we decided to represent and modernize is called "La Mulata de COrdoba." The word "mulatto" stands for a person of mixed race who has one white and one black parent. "La Mulata de COrdoba," was written between the seventeenth and eighteenth century, during the inquisition. It takes place in the village of Cordoba in the south of Veracruz. This Mexican Myth talks about a gorgeous woman who is also very wealthy. Every man in town is in love with her and women are very jealous because they do not understand how she can be so pretty and kind and have that much money if she does not charge for anything and always donates to charity. People in her town are suspicious about her and think she is related to Satan, so they send her to jail. Since she was some kind of witch they were going to burn her alive because of the superstitious era the story is situated on. One day before she was going to get killed, she managed to seduce the prison officer and begged for a chalk. He got the mulata the chalk and she spent the whole night drawing a boat. The next day when the guard came back, he saw the amazingly well drawn boat on the wall, while he was staring at it the mulata stepped in and started waving goodbye. The officer watched her sail away impressed, when he told everyone in town his story, no one believed him. In our version of the story, the main character is a singer. Her name is Maria and she hypnotizes men with her beauty and her amazing singing skills; her voice is just as beautiful as she is, and this makes many women jealous. She is also a really kind and generous person, she monthly donates to five different charities. Maria lived a happy life for a long time, every man in town was in love with her even though she never really flirted with anyone at all. Everything was perfectly fine until one day people in her town started to get suspicious about her. A girl who was really jealous of her decided to break in her ho