La Llorona (Latin American Spanish: [la ʝoˈɾona]; 'the Crying Woman, the Weeping Woman, the Wailer') is a vengeful ghost in Mexican folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children whom she drowned in a jealous rage after discovering her …

2025年2月15日 · 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 communities.

The legend of La Llorona (pronounced “LAH yoh ROH nah”), Spanish for the Weeping Woman, has been a part of the Southwest’s Hispanic culture since the conquistadores’ days. The tall, thin spirit is said to be blessed with natural beauty and long flowing black hair.

2025年2月21日 · A chilling figure from centuries-old Mexican folklore, La Llorona is a malevolent ghost who haunts bodies of water and wails over the children she drowned. By some accounts, La Llorona searches for children to drown in place of her own children, whom she already killed.

2023年12月18日 · "La Llorona" (the crying woman) may be the most famous Mexican phantom of all time. Every child in Mexico knows the story of this evil ghost who kidnaps naughty children and drowns them in the river at night.

2019年5月25日 · In Mexico City La Llorona began haunting a toddler’s bedroom. ( Chainat / Adobe) The events brought the parents to take their child to a doctor to ensure their child was fine, only to discover that the child was suffering from a medical condition that if gone untreated could have been fatal.

2021年10月13日 · 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.

2025年2月12日 · Discover the chilling legend of La Llorona, Mexico’s infamous Weeping Woman. Explore her origins, cultural significance, and modern interpretations in this in-depth article. Is she a tragic mother, a ghostly warning, or something more?

La Llorona, Spanish for “the Weeping Woman,” is a mythical, vicious ghost of Hispanic-American origin, said to wander coasts and waterfronts mourning her children she drowned.

La Llorona ([la ʝoˈɾona]), also known as The Weeping Woman, is a 2019 Guatemalan horror film co-written, directed, co-produced, and co-edited by Jayro Bustamante. [1] [2] Plot. Former Guatemalan dictator Enrique Monteverde (based on Efraín Ríos Montt) is convicted for orchestrating the native Mayans's genocide in 1982–83. Now elderly, he ...