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Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015. La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; ' the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer ') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her husband was unfaithful to her.
"La Llorona" (lit. "The weeping woman") is a Mexican folk song derived from the legend of La Llorona.There are many versions of the song. Its origins are obscure, but, around 1941, composer Andres Henestrosa mentioned hearing the song in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
Carpio wrote the earliest known literary depiction of the ghost La Llorona as a poem in 1849. [3] [2] [4] In Carpio's 14-line poem, a woman named Rosalia was murdered by her husband and becomes a weeping ghost that travels through streets and the riverbank, wearing a cloak. [2]
Cleófilas is the protagonist of the title story "Woman Hollering Creek", who recreates the image of la llorona. [26] She is a traditional Mexican woman who naïvely allows her father to give her in marriage to a man who would become her abusive, unfaithful husband.
La Llorona, also known as 'the Weeping Woman'; can be a female spirit from Mexico who drowned her own children because her husband cheated on her with another woman and subsequently left her. La Sayona, a female spirit who believed her husband had an affair with her mother in Venezuela and Colombia
The Curse of La Llorona (also known as The Curse of the Weeping Woman in some markets) [3] is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves, in his feature directorial debut, and written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis.
His naïve younger brother, Gustavo (Eros de la Puente), finds a way to join him, and for a while the two enjoy a paradisiacal, summer-camp-like freedom. Adria Arjona, previously seen in “Hit ...
La Llorona ([la ʝoˈɾona]), also known as The Weeping Woman, is a 2019 Guatemalan horror film co-written, directed, co-produced, and co-edited by Jayro Bustamante.