Now, you guys are scaring me with your ghost stories!

But that's ok, it's Halloween!
My recollections of the La Llorona story come from my Mexican friends as a child and as an adult. At slumber parties, my friend would scare us with
her version of La Llorona, the ghost of a woman who had drowned her two children in a river and wandered this earth weeping and crying out for them.
She herself was witness to La Llorona's haunts, when she visited her grandfather's ranch in Mexico. She knew she had heard La Llorona. I now chalk
it up to coyotes, but others don't.
I heard her version from other Mexicans, both children and adults, with all being firm believers. To me, the story could have an original source,
something to do with a watery death and the ghost of a woman seen afterward. IOW, a typical haunting.
However, it seems that parents use La Llorona as parents use the boogeyman, to elicit compliance with rules or warnings of danger. Be careful, do what
I tell you to do, or La Llorona will get you!!
I loved that Got Milk commercial!
[edit on 31-10-2009 by desert]