Do you hear the wailing? The miserable, sorrowful wail of the weeping La Llorona?
The mythical urban legend, La Llorona, hunts for and captures wandering children by quiet and lonesome rivers. She forever will be searching for children that resemble her own to mourn their grieving deaths. The La Llorona has forever done so after her own death by suicide in the same river as her beloved children. The reason for her wailing and searching for her children for so long is because she was denied at the gates of heaven and will not be sent into the afterlife until she finds her children that are unknowingly already in the afterlife and that she will never find them. The La Llorona has been around for many centuries and has been known to wail a horrible weeping that exclaims, “Ay, mi hijos!”, or “Oh, my children!” The La Llorona has been reported in many states and U.S. territories along the southern border of the America’s.
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Maria, more widely known as the La Llorona, has also been known to have much rage towards others and a short temper for misbehaving children which is what made most people believe that she would capture and kill misbehaving children. She also has had many documentaries, magazine articles, and books based off of her and her heart wrenching story of envy, despite, murder, and depression. Many of the books/movies include Grimm on ABC, La Llorona The Weeping Woman by Joe Hayes, and Perla Garcia and the Mystery of La Llorona, The Weeping Woman by Rodolfo Alvarado. In the book La Llorona The Weeping Woman by Joe Hayes represents the La Llorona as a selfish girl with no use in marriage and starting a family which may present the La Llorona story as a fraud but most people just as misconception on the author's part. Even though some books may stray from the actual story they all have the same basics of her and children’s tragic