La Llorona (“The Weeping Woman”) is a widespread legend in Mexico, the US southwest, Puerto Rico and Central and South America.
Although several variations exist, the basic story tells of a beautiful woman by the name of Maria who drowns her children in order to be with the man that she loved. The man would not have her, which devastated her. She would not take no for an answer, so she drowned herself in a lake in Mexico. Challenged at the gates of heaven as to the whereabouts of her children, she is not permitted to enter the afterlife until she has found them. Maria is forced to wander the Earth for all eternity, searching in vain for her drowned offspring, with her constant weeping giving her the name “La Llorona”.She is trapped in between the living world and the spirit world.
In some versions of this tale and legend, La Llorona will kidnap wandering children who resemble her missing children, or children who disobey their parents. People who claim to have seen her say she appears at night or in the late evenings from rivers or oceans in Mexico. Some believe that those who hear the wails of La Llorona are marked for death, similar to the Gaelic banshee legend. She is said to cry “Ay, mis hijos!” which translates to “Oh, my children!”
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great work
one of my friend yelled : "are you the one or the other one?" "eres aquella o la otra?, he says that's what you have to say when you meet la llorona, don't know if it's true, but anyway, even if she was a human, she didn't replied, and just walk away.
my friends came back to the house, freaked out. they don't know what the fuck that was, but they swear it did happen.
I was totally suprised you made a drawing of her O:! It´s awesome! I love your work by the way
It is also said that if you hear her loud it´s actually far away , but if you hear her whisper she is really close to you . And that you can only see her if you put dog tears in you eyes, but it´s so creeppy that you would go insane by only seing her.
Afterwords they told my aunt and my mom to stay as far away from them and they all prayed together.
She told me this when I was in middle school and immediately became fascinated with the legend. My mom confirmed her story just recently like about a month or two ago. Then they went on to say it happen three or two time.
So it make me a little giddy to see this drawing!