what is it?
2007-10-31 16:39:21 · 8 answers · asked by Kata 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I don't remember all the details, but basically it's about a woman who killed her own children. Drowned them, I believe. Her spirit wanders everywhere from California to South America, usually along rivers, searching for her children. It's believed that if she finds living children, she drowns them, even in as little as a few inches of water.
I think it's really just a story meant to keep children from playing alone in the water, but a former history teacher of mine swore up and down that la Llorona came for her and her sister when they were children, even wailing at the door, but her father kept them indoors and yelled back that Llorona's children were not there.
2007-10-31 16:49:00 · answer #1 · answered by nosleepthree 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A woman that drowns her children therefore is doomed till eternity wandering every creek,lake,etc. looking for her dead children.Sandra Cisneros named one of her books after her,"Woman Hollering Creek".In Texas there is a creek that's named Woman Hollering Creek, but it's a true story not a legend like,"La LLorona".A woman did get raped,murdered and left to die.Indians killed her so the story goes.Two different stories that got confused with time.
2007-10-31 17:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by Ms Lety 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
La Llorrona is a woman who drowned her own children and is now spending eternity looking for them
2007-10-31 22:00:17 · answer #3 · answered by Blouberger 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to folklore, La Llorona (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 that she drowned. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death and frequently are claimed to occur near bodies of water, particularly streams and rivers.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Llorona
2007-11-01 18:12:08 · answer #4 · answered by Rachelle_of_Shangri_La 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm not quite sure, but I know this story is either from Argentina or Spain.
2007-10-31 23:45:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think I heard that it was a woman who lost her baby (baby died) and she went crazy. She was hated by the people in her town and she was buried alive in the same grave where she buried her baby. She died and people in that town still hear her cry for her baby.
2007-10-31 16:44:44 · answer #6 · answered by EVELYN A 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
if you go to wikipedia and search " la llorrona ", you'll get various versions of it and the region it comes from.
2007-11-01 05:37:38 · answer #7 · answered by optcynbassist 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i don't know but i'd sure like to know you.lol
2007-11-01 05:26:30 · answer #8 · answered by zico 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋