does anyone know the legend of la llorona?

Question

does anyone know the legend of la llorona?its a mexican folk tale

Answer 1

According to folklore, La Llorona - "lah yoh-ROH-nah", Spanish for "the crying woman"), sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death. There is much variation in tales of La Llorona, which are popular in Mexico, the United States.

Many versions of La Llorona's origin exist. Some describe a beautiful young woman in Mexico or New Mexico, who married or was seduced by a local man, by whom she had several children. The woman is sometimes given a Christian name; Sofia, Linda, Laura, and María are sometimes used. The man leaves her, sometimes for another woman, sometimes for reasons of employment, and sometimes just to be away from La Llorona and her several children. At any rate, La Llorona chooses to murder her children, almost always by drowning, either to spare them a life of poverty, to free herself to seek another man, or for revenge against their absent or stray father.

The tales vary mostly in the several motives they give to the mother and father for the murder. The version popular in Las Cruces, New Mexico says that "La Llorona" drowned her children in the Rio Grande when she could no longer support them. On nights with a full moon, says the story, La Llorona can be heard crying near the river. Alternatively, right after she drowns her children, La Llorona realizes what she has done and, overwhelmed by grief and by guilt, she runs alongside the river trying to find her children, but never does, and she dies or disappears in her search for them.

There are many versions of the story adn told differently by different countires. But the above is the main story.

Answer 2

Well as a child my mom, used to tell me "LA LLORONA" was a lady that was crazy and that everytime she would give birth she would drown her kids, in the river. And when she died since her spirit was not able to rest she would cry up and down the rivers at nighttime searching for her children.

Answer 3

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The La Llorona is a beautiful woman who killed her children after the man she loved rejected her. He might have been the children's father, and left their mother for another woman, or he might have been a man she loved, but who was uninterested in a relationship with a woman with children, and whom she thought she could win if the children were out of the way. It is unclear. She drowned the children then killed herself, and is doomed to wander, searching for her children, always weeping. In some cases, according to the tale, she will kidnap wandering children. Hope I helped :)

Answer 4

Mexican folklore on the crying woman has many variations depending on province. Many believe the origin of the tale begins with the mothers weeping as their sons were sacrificed to the gods and they were made slaves and whores for the priests. The modern version blames a faithless husband who leaves her with children during a famine and she in sorrowful madness kills them and then herself in the river. She waits by the river in mourning for the faithless man to return so she can kill him as well. She is a handy tale of woe and terror whatever reason you give and the story is best told and a cold and windy night while the wind howls through the trees and squeals through the seams of your home.

Answer 5

Here is a great link with a couple of versions of the leyend. http://www.legendsofamerica.com/HC-WeepingWoman1.html