Ghost history

"LA LLORONA"


I think that the history of “La llorona” is the most interesting. I remember that my grandmother told me that long years ago a woman named Maria killed her children. She was jealous of the children because her husband paid attention to them and ignored her.

One night, as Maria was walking with her two children near the river, her husband rode a horse with another woman more beautiful than she. Her husband spoke to his children but not to her. Maria became so angry; then threw both of her children into the river, and the river carried them away. She repented and ran after them but her children had already disappeared. She was sad and died near a river.

Today, she can be heard weeping, “Where are my children?” and she appears during the day of dead.

Candelaria del S. Olivares Alvarez