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Molambo, Maria. Maria Molambo was a possibly mythical 19^th century Brazilian woman who ran away from home rather than be married to a man she didn’t love, was caught and disowned by her father, and forced to turn to prostitution to survive. From the early part of the 20^th century Molambo appeared in Brazilian ballads, street stories, newspaper serials, films, television shows, and telenovelas as one of the primary incarnations of Pomba Gira, a Femme Fatale spirit of the Afro-Brazilian religions.

The fictional Maria Molambo, while incarnating Pomba Gira, is variously courtesan, prostitute, alluring, dangerous, a seductress, and transgressive, and ruins men’s lives and avenges the wrongs done to women.

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