| rdfs:comment | - La Llorona is Spanish for "The Crying Woman," and is a popular legend in Spanish-speaking cultures in the Americas, with many versions according to the country. The basic version is that La Llorona was a beautiful woman who killed her children after having loved a man and having been rejected by him. He might have been the children's father, and left their mother for another woman, or he might have been a man she loved, but who was uninterested in a relationship with a woman with children, and whom she thought she could win if the children were out of the way. She drowned the children then killed herself, and is doomed to wander, searching for her children, always weeping. In some cases, according to the tale, she will kidnap wandering children.
- La Llorona was the name of the legendary founder of Miami's Winter Court. She was killed during the Liberty City Riots in the 1980's.
- "The Weeping Woman" of Hispanic legend, said to have drowned her own children, La Llorona gave her name to the Rona Case, but also appears for real in Cold Case : Rona.
- La Llorona es tradicional de México.
- La Llorona est un sort de la Magie du Chant
- "La llorona" es el nombre de dos episodios de El Chapulín Colorado:
* El episodio de 1972.
* El episodio de 1980.
- Una de las más famosas leyendas mexicanas que ha recorrido el mundo es la de La Llorona, cuyos orígenes se remontan a los tiempo en que México fue establecido, junto a la llegada de los españoles. Se cuenta que existió una mujer indígena que tenía un romance con un caballero español; la relación se consumó dando como fruto tres bellos hijos, los cuales la madre cuidaba de forma devota, convirtiéndolos en su adoración. Los días seguían corriendo, entre mentiras y sombras, manteniéndose escondidos de los demás para disfrutar de su vínculo. La mujer, viendo su familia formada y las necesidades de sus hijos por un padre de tiempo completo, reclama que la relación sea formalizada. Pero el caballero la esquivaba en cada ocasión, quizás por temor al qué dirán: siendo él un miembro de la sociedad
- "La Llorona" is an original MAIKA song. It is based off of an old Latino legend of Malinche, an Aztec woman who bore twin boys to Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés. He refuses to return to Spain despite the King and Queen's orders, and in fear of him turning against them, send a beautiful woman to seduce him into returning to Spain. He agrees, planning to take his sons with him and leave La Malinche behind. The song is featured in the album, Assorted Vocanuts.
- 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 City. 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.
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| abstract | - 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 City. 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!" OTHER FOLKTALES ______________________________________________________________________________________________ La Llorona bears a resemblance to the ancient Greek tale of the demonic demigodess Lamia. Hera, Zeus' wife, learned of his affair with Lamia, and then forced Zeus to give up the relationship and punished Lamia by forcing her to eat her own children. Out of jealousy over the loss of her own children, Lamia preys upon human children and devours them if she catches them. In Greek mythology, Medea killed the two children fathered by Jason (one of the Argonauts) after he left her for another woman. Local Aztec folklore possibly influenced the legend; the goddess Cihuacoatl or Coatlicue was said to have appeared shortly prior to the discovery of New Spain by Hernán Cortés, weeping for her lost children, an omen of the fall of the Aztec empire. La Llorona is also sometimes identified with La Malinche, the Nahua woman who served as Cortés' interpreter and who some say was betrayed by the Spanish conquistadors. In one folk story of La Malinche, she becomes Cortés' mistress and bore him a child, only to be abandoned so that he could marry a Spanish lady (although no evidence exists that La Malinche killed her children). Aztec pride drove La Malinche to acts of vengeance. In this context, the tale compares the Spanish discovery of New Spain and the demise of indigenous culture after the conquest with La Llorona's loss
- "La Llorona" is an original MAIKA song. It is based off of an old Latino legend of Malinche, an Aztec woman who bore twin boys to Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés. He refuses to return to Spain despite the King and Queen's orders, and in fear of him turning against them, send a beautiful woman to seduce him into returning to Spain. He agrees, planning to take his sons with him and leave La Malinche behind. La Malinche hears this, and falls into despair realizing that an old prophecy that one of her sons would destroy Mexico, was becoming true. She prays to find an answer, and in trying to save Mexico, sacrifices her two sons. The night before Cortés leaves for Spain, she escapes with her sons. But his men notice her absence and set out to chase her. They reach a lake that is found by Mexico City, and the soldiers surround Malinche. But before they capture her, she takes out a dagger and stabs them in the chest, drowning them in the river. However she is overcome by grief, murdering her children being the last thing she ever wanted to do. Just as she dropped their bodies into the water, she cries "Oh, hijos mios." (Oh, my children.) La Malinche dies about nine years later, and up to the time of her death she is seen and heard near the lake, crying for her children. This is where the name, "La Llorona" (The Crying Woman), is derived from, and how the legend came to be. The song is featured in the album, Assorted Vocanuts.
- La Llorona is Spanish for "The Crying Woman," and is a popular legend in Spanish-speaking cultures in the Americas, with many versions according to the country. The basic version is that La Llorona was a beautiful woman who killed her children after having loved a man and having been rejected by him. He might have been the children's father, and left their mother for another woman, or he might have been a man she loved, but who was uninterested in a relationship with a woman with children, and whom she thought she could win if the children were out of the way. She drowned the children then killed herself, and is doomed to wander, searching for her children, always weeping. In some cases, according to the tale, she will kidnap wandering children.
- La Llorona was the name of the legendary founder of Miami's Winter Court. She was killed during the Liberty City Riots in the 1980's.
- "The Weeping Woman" of Hispanic legend, said to have drowned her own children, La Llorona gave her name to the Rona Case, but also appears for real in Cold Case : Rona.
- La Llorona es tradicional de México.
- La Llorona est un sort de la Magie du Chant
- "La llorona" es el nombre de dos episodios de El Chapulín Colorado:
* El episodio de 1972.
* El episodio de 1980.
- Una de las más famosas leyendas mexicanas que ha recorrido el mundo es la de La Llorona, cuyos orígenes se remontan a los tiempo en que México fue establecido, junto a la llegada de los españoles. Se cuenta que existió una mujer indígena que tenía un romance con un caballero español; la relación se consumó dando como fruto tres bellos hijos, los cuales la madre cuidaba de forma devota, convirtiéndolos en su adoración. Los días seguían corriendo, entre mentiras y sombras, manteniéndose escondidos de los demás para disfrutar de su vínculo. La mujer, viendo su familia formada y las necesidades de sus hijos por un padre de tiempo completo, reclama que la relación sea formalizada. Pero el caballero la esquivaba en cada ocasión, quizás por temor al qué dirán: siendo él un miembro de la sociedad en sus más altos niveles, pensaba mucho en la opinión de los demás y aquel nexo con una indígena podría afectarle demasiado su estatus. Tras la insistencia de la mujer y la negación del caballero, un tiempo después el hombre la dejó para casarse con una dama española de alta sociedad. La mujer Indígena al enterarse, dolida por la traición y el engaño, totalmente desesperada, tomó a sus tres hijos, llevándolos a orillas del rio, abrazándolos fuertemente con el profundo amor que les profesaba, los hundió en él hasta ahogarlos para después terminar con su propia vida al no poder soportar la culpa de los actos cometidos. Desde ese día se escucha el lamento lleno de dolor de la mujer en el río donde esto ocurrió. Hay quienes dicen haberla visto vagando buscando desesperada con un profundo grito de dolor y lamento que clama por sus hijos. La culpa no la deja descansar, su lamento se escucha cerca de la plaza mayor. Quienesthumb miran a través de sus ventanas ven una mujer vestida enteramente de blanco, delgada, llamando a sus hijos y que se esfuma en el lago de Texcoco.
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