La Llorona

La Llorona La Llorona is a legend that began around the 1550s. It has been told to children by older ones for hundreds of years. Her real name is Maria. There are some who believe it to be true, but whether they believe or nor not it still remains in memories of many people. There are different stories about the La Llorona; here is someone that believes it’s true. La Llororna as told by Stephanie Cassias is said to be a southwestern folktale. The legend is said to be about as young Native American women named Maria. One day a man came riding into town she lived and ended up marrying the women. Cassias say, “She had two children or maybe three”. Maria’s husband one day left her and got all crazy. She was so angry she got her children and put them in a bag, took them to the river and drowned them to let all anger out. But after a few moments later she realized what she did and cried that she wanted her children. Then people from the city came and saw her dead. They buried at the same spot where she died and drowned her children. Then when she died they still here her yells say where my children are. So in my opinion I think that the Llorona is real. Long ago, when Venezuela was still a part of Spain, a poor "mestiza" named Maria, De La Trinidad lived in a shanty near Lake Maraca Ibo. The only means she had to support herself and her toddler son was by washing clothes at the edge of the lake. Every day she would arise before dawn, lift her son to her back, and wrap her shawl around them both, and then she would place the heavy basket of clean clothes on her head and set out to exchange them for more dirty clothes to wash. The meager pay she received was barely enough to keep the two of them alive. Often, to eke out their wretched diet of rice and bits of fish, she would set her son alongside the path to beg food from passerby. Eventually, the crying began. Many people began to report odd and strange happenings. A shadowy figure glimpsed out of the corner of

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