La llorona
La Llorona is a legend that began around 1550. It has been told to children by older ones for hundreds of years. There are some who believe it to be true, but whether they believe it or not it still remains in memories of many people. There are different stories about La Llorona, I will tell you a few that people believe for it to be true. La Llorona as told by Stephanie Casias is said to be a Southwestern folktale. The legend is said to be about a beautiful, young Native American girl. One day a handsome man came riding into the town she lived in and ended up marrying her. Casias says, "she had a child or maybe two or three, no one is really quite sure." La Llorona's husband left her one-day and she threw her children into the river out of all the anger she had. When she realized what she had done she went back looking for them but it was to late. The next day she was found dead on the riverbank. The people of the town buried her, but that same night they heard cries of "Aiiieee mis hijos" which means "oh my children!" She wanders the river at night looking for her children. Parents warn their children that if they were out late at the river, La Llorona might mistake them for her own children and take them.
He describes the river's mood of lust a he swallows up its victims as if were a living, breathing being. She knew it was not a relative as soon as Don Ramon hugged her and kissed her. She started thinking that her children were in the way and it would be better if she killed them. She started to beat the ground with all her anger. The only problem was that his parents wanted him to marry a girl of his own class. No one is quite sure if it is a made up story since there are many stories that talk about the river being evil. Probably it is just a mountain lion or the wind moving the branches together at night that make the sound that people think is La Llorona. When she died her soul could not rest and appeared near the river, screaming and crying the death of her children. Another version of La Llorona that Casias has heard is that she appears to young men who are out late at night. She grabbed them all together and threw them into the river. She continued to have other lovers and started to go crazy. The girl decided at a very young age that she was going to marry one of those wealthy men and not a village boy. She began to walk along the river looking for her children until she drowned.
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