La Llorona. Is she more than just a story?, page 1
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Topic started on 31-10-2009 @ 01:58 PM by DaddyBare


As it is Halloween I well share a story of La Llorona ...Spanish for "the weeping woman," and is a popular legend in Spanish-speaking cultures with many many versions.

Here in New Mexico I was taught she was the wife of a wealthy businessman... her husband and their children were returning home during a storm... Crossing the Rio Grange the ferry tipped the unfortunate family in the turbulent waters where they drowned....

It was said she spent her life walking the banks of the River lamp in hand looking for the bodies of her lost children... it it also said that long after she died her lamp could still be seen along with the sounds of her weeping...

this story also includes a warning to children... not to follow the lights as she will lead you to the river where she will drown you, make you a replacement for her own lost children....

Now that is my local version... what surprised me is I began my travels across the world... there I found more stories of La Llorona they have her up in Colorado down in Old Mexico, I've heard stories in California down to South America I was even told one version in Spain....

In almost every case she is claimed to be a local ghost with the stories changed to fit the region and people... Still I find it intriguing La Llorona and her story has spread wold wide and people who do not believe in ghosts do believe in La Llorona!
Odd how this one story went global long before the Internet was born...

Wikipedia
GHOSTLY LEGENDS & MYSTERIES this second one is a cool site with three pages of stories...


reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 03:42 PM by whaaa
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Many nights I walk the acequia here in Corrales and hear her cries and catch fleeting glimpses of her lantern.

But I'm not going down to the river at night. There is some bad mojo down there.


Thanks for the story and the painting DB


reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 04:47 PM by DaddyBare
Originally posted by whaaa
reply to post by DaddyBare



Many nights I walk the acequia here in Corrales and hear her cries and catch fleeting glimpses of her lantern.

But I'm not going down to the river at night. There is some bad mojo down there.


Thanks for the story and the painting DB


Well you don't have to go to the river to find ghosts... I remember hearing about A lady with a spear sticking out of her head witnessed scrambling out of a manhole on a Corrales street on a dark night. Numerous people in the neighborhood have had equivalent occurrences with a very similar phantom. No matter what people exclaim, it certainly is a menacing ghost that should be steered clear of.

yup Corrales is just one of those mystical places where weird things just gravitate towards



reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 05:20 PM by whaaa
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Ah yes, manys the nite I had to go in the back with the barmaid because she was freaked out in the old Territorial House, now known as the Rancho de Corrales.

www.legendsofamerica.com...


reply posted on 31-10-2009 @ 07:32 PM by DaddyBare
Just to show how enduring La Llorona is an wide spread here's a vid out of Calif

here's another version of the story
Titled the scarest woman in Spanish lore



[edit on 31-10-2009 by DaddyBare]


reply posted on 1-11-2009 @ 07:21 AM by DaddyBare
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You know we joke about La Llorona but people do tend to laugh off our fears... there have been very frightening accounts of attacks not at rivers edge but right in peoples homes

An Attack by the Weeping Woman



When I was about 8 years old, I had just started becoming interested in all things paranormal. I was researching La Llorona when all of a sudden I heard a noise, so I decided to check it out. Then I heard it again. It sounded like it was coming from the bathroom so I walked in and stopped at the sink. Then all of a sudden my head was pushed into the sink and the water started to run. The sink finally filled all the way and I was trying to breathe. Then I couldn't breath anymore. I thought I was going to die of lack of oxygen. So I screamed and my mom came in. She pulled my head out after a struggle and hugged me tightly. She knew I wouldn't drown myself, so she started thinking. Then she froze and her face turned white. She screamed and almost fainted. I asked her what was wrong and she said with a stutter, "La-La-La Llorona." - Emily Ortiz


While I've never seen her myself I am a believer... enough not to go taking foolish chances
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