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  2. Jun 21, 2024 · La Llorona, a mythological woman in Mexican and Latin American oral tradition whose siren-like wails are said to lure adults and children to their untimely deaths. The legend of La Llorona is a popular ghost story that is especially prominent on Día de los Muertos and in Chicano and Latin American.

  3. Oct 13, 2021 · La Llorona typically appears as a malevolent spirit, either a harbinger or a direct cause of misfortune to the living. Sometimes she takes the form of a “dangerous siren,” tempting a solitary male late at night by confronting him as a pitiful, woebegone figure hidden under a rebozo.

  4. Sep 10, 2022 · Discover the story of La Llorona, the murderous mother-turned-bloodthirsty ghost from Mexican folklore who preys on vulnerable children.

  5. Jun 16, 2020 · The story of La Llorona is becoming better known in the United States thanks to supernatural television shows and horror movies like 2019's The Curse of La Llorona, but what do you really know about the wailing woman?

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  6. Oct 18, 2021 · In this post, I'll show some of the story's long history, especially in Mexico. I'll give links to primary sources from the 1570s showing the story was already present among Indigenous Mexicans at that time and earlier. I'll also present what I believe is new evidence of a strong link for some La Llorona stories with Spain.

  7. Based on the Latin American folklore of La Llorona, the film stars Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, and Patricia Velásquez, and follows a mother in 1973 Los Angeles who must save her children from a malevolent spirit trying to steal them.

  8. Oct 29, 2021 · La Llorona, the Weeping Woman, is a spirit that haunts the folklore of Mexico and other Latin American countries. In some versions she's a ghost, but in others she's an immortal wanderer, not dead but not really alive either.

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