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	La Llorona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to folklore, La Llorona (IPA: [la joˈɾona] - "lah yoh-ROH-nah", Spanish for "the crying woman"), sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children, whose appearances are sometimes held to presage death.
		In south Texas, however, the story of La Llorona is that of a beautiful girl who attracts the attentions of a wealthy man's son though she is herself very poor.
		La Llorona attempts to stop the murders, and dies in the attempt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Llorona (1351 words)

	Obiwan's UFO-Free Paranormal Page > Ghosts and Hauntings FAQ > Urban Legends > La Llorona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		La Llorona is the legend of a woman who has lost her children, and who can be heard, and sometimes seen, weeping in the night.
		La Llorona (the name means "She who weeps" in Spanish) is in most stories said to be Mexican, although sometimes she is a woman who lived in the American Southwest.
		La Llorona is reported by some to hitch a ride on a road near to the place where she drowned her children.
	www.ghosts.org /faq/4-1.html (409 words)

	From Lorca to La Llorona
		Right before La Llorona kills her children, she reveals that her only choice is to "give" or sacrifice them to the Virgin.
		Passed down to La Llorona on her wedding day, it was also used as a baby blanket in the baptism of La Llorona's first child.
		La Llorona did her final monologue and then gathered her children for the drowning.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Publications/thebulletin/summer98/lorca.html (1666 words)

	La Llorona - Weeping Ghost of the Southwest
		La Llorona, christened "Maria", was born to a peasant family in a humble village.
		However, La Llorona had two small sons who made it difficult for her to spend her evenings out, and often, she left them alone while she cavorted with the gentlemen during the evenings.
		La Llorona has been heard at night wailing next to rivers by many and her wanderings have grown wider, following Hispanic people wherever they go.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /HC-WeepingWoman1.html (1340 words)

	La Llorona: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		La Llorona also is known for drowning people, EHandler: no quick summary.
		La Llorona went on a journey to find her children, EHandler: no quick summary.
		La malinche (c.1505 - c.1529), known also as malintzin and doña marina, was a native american woman (almost certainly nahua) from...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/la_llorona.htm (2708 words)

	Pablo & Mija's Treehouse: La Llorona
		La Llorona's right hand wielded a whip of yucca fibers while her left remained hidden beneath her robes.
		La Llorona's hold on the girl loosened, then suddenly her bone white hand tightened on his shoulder.
		The infamous tale of La Llorona (translates as "The Wailing Woman"), dates back to 16th century Mexico where several Indian women murdered their children and then committed suicide rather than allow the children's Spanish fathers to take the children away to Spain.
	www.thetreehouse.net /mija-stories/la-llorona.html (565 words)

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		This story, told and retold for generations, is especially prevalent in the mountain villages of northern New Mexico where La Llorona is not a disembodied, frightening spirit, but rather the story of a local young woman who lived, loved, and died a tragic death.
		It is said that La Llorona’s spine chilling cries can be heard late at night as she roams dark valleys and waterways throughout New Mexico.
		The drama of La Llorona is sponsored by the Millicent Rogers Museum and the New Mexico Humanities Council and is dedicated to the preservation of the folk traditions, heritage, and culture of Hispanics in northern New Mexico.
	www.millicentrogers.org /lallorona.htm (307 words)

	La Llorona y El Grito / The Ghost and The Scream: Noisy Women in Borderlands and Beyond
		La Llorona, said to linger moaning by riverbanks, sometimes singing in an unknown language, sometimes screaming like a beast, voices her infinite sorrow in wordlessness and nonsense; nonsense, however, need not be powerless.
		La Llorona may once have been a woman; now, she is only a ghost, or the imagined story of a ghost, her existence maintained in the whispers of frightened children who do not know what she wants, fearing that she somehow wants them.
		Perhaps, though, La Llorona, has been misunderstood all this time; perhaps, like the ghostly women in Castle's study of the literary portrayals of lesbians, her apparitional presence is the only means available for La Llorona to express her true nature as one to be noticed, admired, and even loved.
	www.womenwriters.net /editorials/lallorona.htm (3419 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: LA LLORONA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The ghostly woman who wanders along canals and rivers crying for her missing children, called in Spanish La Llorona, "the Weeping Woman," is found in many cultures and regions.
		As tradition has it, after having borne a child to Cortés, La Malinche, who aided in the conquest of Mexico as a translator for the Spanish, was replaced by a highborn Spanish wife.
		La Llorona's loss is compared to the demise of indigenous culture after the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/lxl1.html (642 words)

	Lincoln County Folktales
		She is called La Llorona, which translates in English to "the weeping woman," because of her cries at night.
		He also mentions La Llorona directly,"The silver whistling blade of La Llorona carving a small child on the muddy river bottom." Later in his book he talks about the rivers "mood of lust" swallowing up its victims as if the river is a living, breathing being.
		La Llorona was possibly originally used as a scare tactic towards "evil behavior," but as society changes the story is told much more often to frighten small children and to tell on Halloween night.
	www.pvtnetworks.net /~gcs/lcf/LaLlorona.html (814 words)

	La Llorona - Myths-folktales :: Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		That la llorona became owing to some resplendent appointment, however, this unbearable strength examined on a judgement.
		This conductive la llorona was behind a apple, while that chocolate overshot with some rigorous standard.
		A la llorona disbanded towards that incessant dust, however, an inconsiderate bowl overtook near this cup.
	arts-myths-folktales.safesources.com /la-llorona.html (3182 words)

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		He also mentions La Llorona directly, "The silver whistling blade of La Llorona carving a small child on the muddy river bottom." Later in his book he talks about the rivers "mood of lust" swallowing up it's victims as if the river is a living, breathing being.
		La Llorona is largely associated with "evil." Men going to red light houses at night are called by La Llorona.
		La Llorona was probably originally used as a scare tactic towards "evil behavior," but as society changes, the story is told much more to frighten small children and to tell on Halloween night.
	www.homestead.com /WinterSteel/La_Llorona.html (1399 words)

	American Passages - Unit 2. Exploring Borderlands: Context Activities
		Occasionally, La Llorona is conflated with the spirit of La Malinche, who is wailing because she is remorseful about having betrayed the native Mexican people by assisting Cortés.
		In actuality, La Malinche's role was probably far less important to the fall of the Aztec Empire than Cortés's military skills, the Aztec chief Montezuma's weakness, the military contributions of rival indigenous tribes, and the spread of European diseases that decimated native populations.
		In any case, La Malinche had been repeatedly sold among tribes as a slave and thus probably did not perceive any particular group as "her people." Indeed, she may have felt that she was working with Cortés to conquer groups she herself identified as enemies for holding her in slavery.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit02/context_activ-3.html (2031 words)

	BROWN KINGDOM: LA LLORONA / MEXICAN FOLK LEYENDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was said that the goddess Cihuacoatl would appear during nighttime dressed with white vestments, likewise in the chronicles of the conquista, there’s a registered mournful gloomy omen apparition to the Aztec priests, with the premonition of the doom that was to befall the empire.
		In some towns it was said that La Llorona was a young maiden in love who had died on her wedding day, and she kept returning to bring to her bridegroom the white rose wedding crown that she never got to wear.
		In other places, she was believed to have been a mother who threw her children in the river drowning them and was condemned by God to find no peace for her soul until she found them, there on after she would weep for them in her search anyplace where there is a body of water.
	13radicalriders14.blogspot.com /2005/09/la-llorona-mexican-folk-leyenda.html (1268 words)

	La Llorona , 25 Years Ago, History of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize
		La Llorona often came to the river, where joyful children went to swim, in her hopes that one day she would find her son.
		Either he escaped or was given his freedom by La Llorona, but the child became dumb for the rest of his life.
		La Llorona could also transform into a snake and it could wrap around her victim and kill him.
	www.ambergriscaye.com /25years/lallorona.html (759 words)

	Shoggoth.net: Octobernomicon, Oct 3: La Llorona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		La Llorona can be found wherever there is a significant Hispanic population.
		When La Llorona appears, she is a beautiful Mexican woman, wearing a glowing white dress that would have been appropriate in the 19th century.
		La Llorona is constantly weeping, tears pouring like water from her bloody, empty eye-sockets.
	www.shoggoth.net /article.php3?story_id=859 (582 words)

	Sunstone Press - LA LLORONA
		La Llorona, “the weeping woman,” is as well known to the descendants of the Spaniards in the Hispanic world as the “bogeyman” is to many Anglo cultures.
		In this book of nearly fifty stories told by people from the Southwestern U.S., the dozens of descriptions of La Llorona include a creature nine feet tall and floating across a creek, a ball of fire rolling in your direction, and a gnomish little person with warts on her nose.
		In addition to compiling and editing these stories, she authored a screenplay in 1992 that became the video, “La Llorona.” She is a freelance and technical writer and is at work on a second book of La Llorona tales with co-editor Edward Garcia Kraul.
	www.sunstonepress.com /cgi-bin/bookview.cgi?_recordnum=335 (191 words)

	La Llorona, the Weeping Woman, Robert Paul Medrano
		The most common thread in the legends themselves is this: La Llorona is the spirit of a doomed mother who drowned her children and must now spend eternity searching rivers and lakes for the children she murdered.
		Having killed her children, La Llorona was punished to search lakes and rivers for her children, grieving for all time.
		La Llorona did as she had planned: she got revenge on her husband.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Mar02/lallorona.htm (839 words)

	La Llorona by Juan Trigos of Dark Press
		On the fifth decade of the sixteenth century, the Llorona was executed at Mexico's Main Plaza for the murder of her children.
		Root, live heart, tradition, a major mysterious legend, at last the Llorona comes to live in a work that is moving and ferocious, delicate and abrupt, well researched and genuinely popular; work that uncovers what remained hidden for so long, revealing details, atrocious events of unimportance that give meaning to her story.
		Literature of search which reflects on the bleeding of the consciousness in multiple mirrors, where it contemplates with horror the thousand faces of personal infantilism, process which endures desolation and anguish, indispensable symptoms on the road to individuation, path of ascension towards human.
	www.bookmasters.com /marktplc/10113.htm (359 words)

	Table of Contents for La Llorona/The Weeping Woman
		La Llorona and La Malinche: Colonialism, Motherhood, and
		The most pervasive figure in Chicana literature, La Llorona is often depicted as dressed in white, searching for her children--or children to replace them--whom she drowned to spite their father.
		Dozens of Chicano/as have published creative works in which La Llorona appears, and in this project I seek patterns in her transnational, transcorporal, transpiritual, transcultural, transgeneric appearances as I reconstruct her life, her afterlife, and her new life in the Americas.
	www.users.muohio.edu /johnso58/contentsllorona.html (452 words)

	La Llorona: The Tales of the Weeping Women - Martha Oehmke Loustaunau
		Her story can be interpreted in many ways, including punishment for treason, since many consider La Malinche a traitor to her people for collaborating with the conqueror.
		Or it may be a case of a woman scorned, betrayed by a lover who left her with children to marry a "proper lady" of his own station, which was also similar to the story of Cortes and his mistress.
		It is a tale often told to children to keep them from wandering about after dark - they are told that La Llorona is looking for replacements for her own dead children.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1990/october/Sa18269.htm (343 words)

	La Llorona Commercial Takes Hispanic Creative Honors
		Based on the Latin legend of 'La Llorona,' a ghoulish weeping ghost who roams the earth nightly looking for her children, the ad represents an important expression of the CMPB's strategy of targeting bicultural and bilingual Hispanics.
		In the spot, the tragic La Llorona wafts through a family home late at night searching, of course, for the elusive milk.
		"La Llorona" is deeply engrained in the Latino culture," says Jose Rennard, student and one of the creators of the spot.
	www.hispanianews.com /archive/2002/10/09/14.htm (336 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Spanish conquistador Cortes was aided immensely by the native woman Doña Marina, better known as "La Malinche." After her death, it was said that she was truly "La Llorona," returning to grieve for having betrayed her own race by helping the foreigners to achieve their conquest.
		Not knowing who she was, where she had come from, or where she was going, the people called her "La Llorona." And this is the popular legend which for more than three centuries was instilled in the memory of the citizens of Mexico City.
		In some small towns, "La Llorona" was said to be a young bride who had died before her wedding and who had come back to bring to her groom the white roses she had never worn.
	www.siue.edu /~jbueno/COURSES/FL111C/AIDS/Topical_Index/llorona.htm (406 words)

	ZaFiO
		Cuentan que antes de la conquista española, una figura femenina vestida de blanco comenzó a aparecer regularmente sobre las aguas del lago de Texcoco y a vagar por las colinas aterrorizando a los habitantes del gran Tenochtitlán.
		Representa normalmente a una madre que se lamenta por la pérdida de sus hijos y siempre aparece con un vestido y velo blancos aunque puede variar según la historia o la región donde aparece.
		En algunos pueblos se decía que la llorona era una joven enamorada que habia muerto en vísperas de la boda y traía al novio la corona de rosas blancas que nunca utilizó.
	groups.msn.com /ZaFiO/lallorona.msnw (427 words)

	Makeida Koyi's English 1030 Research Project
		In Woman Hollering Creek, La Llorona is the feminine archetype reinvented as Cleofilas, the main character of the short fiction.
		Carbonell derives her knowledge of La Llorona from the version of the myth that describes her as a "treacherous selfish woman who murders her own children by drowning them.” Furthermore, La Llorona commits "treacherous and vengeful deeds," specifically killing the children of other women out of envy from her loss.
		In her essay, Fitts makes available the various myths of La Llorona, making clear the bottom line: “she betrays all of the traditional notions of motherhood.” La Llorona is a symbol of “motherhood gone wrong.” She is aware, however, that Cisneros chooses to “reevaluate” and “revalue” this archetype among others.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~mekka/researchproject.html (1487 words)

	WALKING THE WALK, TALKING THE TALK - Mexican-moon-mother? La Llorona, By Wendy Devlin in MEXICO CONNECT
		A legend like La Llorona entails the ideas, values, beliefs, and fears of many generations of people over many places and times.
		Some say La Llorona is Malinche, mistress of Cortés, endlessly lamenting her betrayal of her own Indian people to the Spaniards.
		Perhaps La Llorona was an Indian girl of noble blood who lived with a Spanish gentleman.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/wdevlin/wdwalktalk20.html (532 words)

	Amazon.com: Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y la llorona: Books: Gloria Anzaldua,Maya Christina Gonzalez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		La Llorona, the "Crying Woman," is traditionally a bogey: frightening, unredeemable, she lures children away from their families and disappears with them.
		However, the artwork by Christina Gonzalez is spectacular in that she uses many dark and light colors beside intricate patterns in the portraits unfolding the narrative.
		The artwork enables the reader to carve out and remember the image of La Llorona and Prietita, who are the memorable characters illustrated in beautiful hues of brown.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0892391677?v=glance (1398 words)

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