Happy Sunday everyone! I hope your day is going well! Since Halloween is less than a week away, I wanted to tell you about La Llorona (The Crying Woman). As a child, La Llorona was sometimes used to scare me if I didn’t go to bed at a certain hour. If I didn’t fall asleep, she was supposedly coming to kidnap me as one of her children! La Llorona is a big part of Latino folklore. The story is said to have originated in Mexico as far back as the 1500’s when Spain conquered the Aztecs.
Legend says Maria drowned her children in a Mexican river after her husband left her for a younger woman. She cries late at night as she looks for them screaming “Ay! Mis hijos!” (Oh my children!) Since she’s unable to find them, she drowns herself. The legend says she was unable to go to heaven until she finds her children. According to my childhood neighborhood friends, La Llorona was hiding in and around the nearby Rio Grande River. My neighborhood friends claimed to have seen her reflection in the Rio Grande. They said they also saw her running around the Rio Grande. I don’t know if my friends were confusing Maria with Bloody Mary but it was also said she would also appear in one’s mirror if you called her name three times. Maria was a beautiful woman. She was said to have long and flowing black hair. I never saw La Llorona because I was an obedient little girl…well most of the time anyway!
How about you? Did your parents or grandparents tell you any ghost stories to make you go to bed? What are some of your favorite ghost stories? Do you have any plans for Halloween? Stay tuned for more ghost stories here on Life of an El Paso Woman!
Photo from Cheryl Wallace
LOL that wouldn’t surprise me
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It’s a good movie. I like Salma Hayek. If i remember correctly, her husband was crazy.
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I loved the way the movie maker people (sorry, I don’t get out much) based each scene on a painting, giving the illusion that the painting was coming to life. Plus, Salma Hayyek is so rivetingly beautiful that I had to watch the movie three times before I could take my eyes off her to see the rest! Think I’ll watch it again tonight, now that you’ve reminded me😉
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Oh yes I remember the movie! Thank you for reading it and your comment!
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Wow, cool! My only reference to La Llorona before was from Frida Kalho, the Mexican artist who found La Llorona inside herself, which came out in her paintings as a recurring theme. The movie Frida has a stunning scene of a traditional Llorona song with nightmarish choreography…No spoilers from me, heh heh…thank you for the cool post…love the graphic!
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COOL!

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I never got to see her! Supposedly El Paso is really haunted. I’m going to share more stories here. Thank you for reading it!
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I have heard of La Llorona, but unfortunately she was not a part of my own childhood. Fascinating that so many different cultures have similar legends like this one, and who knows, there may be truth at the root of it!
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Oh my goodness!!! That was a great spook fest, please write more of such folklores. I love reading them ❤️❤️
Why does she cry if she drowned them on her own, did her children drown because of an accident?
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I know ‘enjoy every step of your life, son’ said my dad
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Don’t be in a rush to grow up. It’s not that fun.
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Yeah *sigh* lol
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Lol. You’re still very young! 🙂
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Childhood 😛
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Right! Lol.
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😂😂😂😂 un viejo! That is creepier xD
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Lol yea! Here it’s the cucuy though. My grandma would sing me that song! Or she’d say por que viene un viejo y se la comera!
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Oh lol. I guess here it’s translated as ‘el coco’, the monster. He has his own song:
“Duermete niño, duermete ya, que si no el coco te comerá” lol
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Cucuy is I guess the same as the bogeyman. My grandma would tell me he would come for me if I didn’t go to sleep. Lol.
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No, they used to tell me that if I wasnt a nice kid, they wouldnt care about it and I was like 😭 lol. Also, what’s the cucuy?
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It’s scary! Lol. Would your parents tell you that? Or about the cucuy?
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I like that legend
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you’re very welcome. Thanks for sharing the beautiful picture too 🙂
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Thank you for reblogging! 🙂
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Hi Nienna! Oh no nightmares! Thank you for reading my post. Thank you for your comment too! 🙂
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I was too terrified of ghosts and goblins and witches for them to do that – I was always having nightmares about them and waking my parents up with my screams! Great story.
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Reblogged this on perfectlyfadeddelusions.
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Lol
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Lol. I was! Not sure what happened though. Ha ha.
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lol you are!
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I about spit out my juice when I read that part about you being an obedient child
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Not anymore though! Lol j.k.
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🙂 glad you were a well behaved girl!
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Yeah she is!
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Wow that is spoooky!!!
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