So this story is actually part of my heritage Origins: The legend of La Llorona is traditionally known throughout Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America. La Llorona is also sometimes identified with La Malinche, the Nahua woman who served as Hernán Cortés's interpreter and mistress, and bore his children and who some say was betrayed by the Spanish conquistadors. In one folk story of La Malinche, she became Cortés's mistress and bore him a child, only to be abandoned so that he could marry a Spanish lady (although no evidence exists that La Malinche killed her children). Aztec pride drove La Malinche to acts of vengeance. In this context, the tale compares the Spanish discovery of the New World and the demise of indigenous culture after the conquest with La Llorona's loss. Before the Spaniards arrival in Tenochtitlan, there were seven ugly omens, the sixth of those was a woman screaming in the night crying: "Where will I take you?,oh my children!" Stories of weeping female phantoms are common in the folklore of both European and indigenous American cultures. Scholars have pointed out similarities between La Llorona and the Cihuacōātl of Aztec mythology, as well as Eve and Lilith of Old World mythology. Author Ben Radford's investigation into the legend of La Llorona, published in Mysterious New Mexico, traced elements of the story back to a German folktale dating from 1486. The earliest published reference to La Llorona occurred in a sonnet written by Mexican poet Manuel Carpio in the late 1800s. The poem makes no reference to infanticide, rather La Llorona is identified as the ghost of a woman who was murdered by her husband.
WARNING: Children who are under the age of nine or cannot handle scary stuff, should leave this project immediately Thanks to Wikipedia for the info!! Not the story WHERE ARE MY LATINAS?!?!?!?!? ((Or Latinos, I shall accept those))
