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** La Corua was a water serpent that lived in springs of water and protected them. It had a cross on its forehead and cleaned the veins of water with its teeth. According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corua, the spring would dry up.
Source: Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta - James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992. **
Serpents are sacred to most indigenous cultures throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

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