What do you know about La Llorona Story?

No one knows for certain where the legend of La Llorona originated, many believe the story originated with the Aztecs.

In the 1500s, a version of the story emerged, in which La Llorona had children with a Spanish conquistador.

According to this legend, when the conquistador left La Llorona for another woman, she drowned their children in the river, in a jealous rage.

Consumed with guilt La Llorona then drowns herself.
When she arrived at heaven’s gates, she was denied entry.

 Unable to enter the afterlife, La Llorona is forced to be in purgatory, and roam this earth for eternity.

The story has changed over the years, in some versions, La Llorona simply finds her children drowned, and her ghost can be heard wailing in despair.

 Legend says, she floats over and near bodies of water in her white, funereal gown, forever weeping as she searches for her lost children.

Some versions of the story say she attacks cheating husbands.

 Even darker versions of the La Llorona legend say she steals living children, to take the place of her children who died.

Numerous sightings of La Llorona have been reported over the centuries.

One of the more famous stories is about a boy in the 1930s named Patricio Lujan who reportedly saw a woman in white wailing by a river in New Mexico.

 Generations of Mexican children have grown up afraid of La Llorona.
She’s the stuff of legend, a myth and spooky bedtime story whose objective is to get naughty children to behave....

Regardless of which version of the story persists, La Llorona is considered an omen of misfortune or death.

When you hear her cries, one thing is for sure...
Run away!!