La leyenda de la llorona/The Legend Of The Weeping Woman
La llorona en el lago de Texcoco.www.una chicaenmexico,blogspot.com
There are many versions of this legend. These two are the most popular.
1. In the epoch in which the Spanish came to Mexico an indigenous woman and a Spanish gentleman they had affairs of which there were born three children, the indigenous one she was a devout mother who when the children began to grow and to surprise his father she asked to marry as soon as possible.The Spanish who was afraid to the gossips of the people, that it did not love her and only it saw her as an object of passion he refused and I marry immediately the daughter of a very rich and important man in order that the indigenous woman was stopping doing illusions to him in spite of marrying with.The mad woman for the ire, the disappointment and the sadness I take his children who him were remembering her the coward of this man and suffocation in a lake the children (that now it is Texcoco's lake).
The woman after realizing of what had done volume a few stones and I place them in his garment and also I drown in the lake.From this day in the nights the persons began to listen to the laments of a woman in the nights, a few horrifying and heart-breaking shouts that were freezing the blood when they began to sound in the darkness.
After it there was a curfew in the whole place but in the nights brave some of them were appearing to the door and pulled down the following day they were telling that they saw a high thin woman covered with a white veil as his garment that was floating for the streets the face being covered with a few bony hands that on having followed it it was eliminating in Texcoco's lake.
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2. "La llorona" is a Mexican Legend that depicts the tragic life of a beautiful woman called Maria. It is not certain when and where this story was born. Some people say that it took place in Central Mexico during the time of the Spanish conquest, others say it happened in Mexico City in the mid 1800. This folktale has been narrated for hundreds of years, and especially around the time of "Dia de los muertos". The story has many variations and plots, but all coincide on the same outcome, "La llorona" kills her children and is condemned to wander the earth for all eternity.
The legend centers on a woman with extraordinary beauty who falls in love with a wildly, handsome man and they get married. They have two children and lived happy together. Even though they were happy, her husband gets bored and eventually leaves her. Maria thought that he left her because of the children, so she drowns them in the river. When the man still rejects her she realizes what she has done. She regrets her actions and kills herself. When she goes to heaven she is denied entrance and is condemned to search for the children for eternity, in vain. Her constant weeping gives her the name of "La llorona". She cries , "Aaaaaay mis hijos" (Oh my children). It is said that those who hear her weeping are condemned to die in a very short time. The tales says that "La llorona" during her wanderings for her children, likes to kidnap children who disobey their parents and who stay out in the streets late at night.
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1. In the epoch in which the Spanish came to Mexico an indigenous woman and a Spanish gentleman they had affairs of which there were born three children, the indigenous one she was a devout mother who when the children began to grow and to surprise his father she asked to marry as soon as possible.The Spanish who was afraid to the gossips of the people, that it did not love her and only it saw her as an object of passion he refused and I marry immediately the daughter of a very rich and important man in order that the indigenous woman was stopping doing illusions to him in spite of marrying with.The mad woman for the ire, the disappointment and the sadness I take his children who him were remembering her the coward of this man and suffocation in a lake the children (that now it is Texcoco's lake).
The woman after realizing of what had done volume a few stones and I place them in his garment and also I drown in the lake.From this day in the nights the persons began to listen to the laments of a woman in the nights, a few horrifying and heart-breaking shouts that were freezing the blood when they began to sound in the darkness.
After it there was a curfew in the whole place but in the nights brave some of them were appearing to the door and pulled down the following day they were telling that they saw a high thin woman covered with a white veil as his garment that was floating for the streets the face being covered with a few bony hands that on having followed it it was eliminating in Texcoco's lake.
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2. "La llorona" is a Mexican Legend that depicts the tragic life of a beautiful woman called Maria. It is not certain when and where this story was born. Some people say that it took place in Central Mexico during the time of the Spanish conquest, others say it happened in Mexico City in the mid 1800. This folktale has been narrated for hundreds of years, and especially around the time of "Dia de los muertos". The story has many variations and plots, but all coincide on the same outcome, "La llorona" kills her children and is condemned to wander the earth for all eternity.
The legend centers on a woman with extraordinary beauty who falls in love with a wildly, handsome man and they get married. They have two children and lived happy together. Even though they were happy, her husband gets bored and eventually leaves her. Maria thought that he left her because of the children, so she drowns them in the river. When the man still rejects her she realizes what she has done. She regrets her actions and kills herself. When she goes to heaven she is denied entrance and is condemned to search for the children for eternity, in vain. Her constant weeping gives her the name of "La llorona". She cries , "Aaaaaay mis hijos" (Oh my children). It is said that those who hear her weeping are condemned to die in a very short time. The tales says that "La llorona" during her wanderings for her children, likes to kidnap children who disobey their parents and who stay out in the streets late at night.
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