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Hollering Creek
Photo by John Troesser, May 2001 |
The
Story:
La Llorona is a fixture in the Mexican pantheon of restless spirits.
The tale dates back to the Aztecs and like "urban legends" - it possibly arose
from more than one source. Like proverbs - but more wordy - it's a morality story.
Variations are included:
A girl, young woman / married woman finds herself
"with child." The father of the child is:
A. not interested in fatherhood
B. runs off with another woman or
C. He's a new man that comes into
her life who doesn't want children.
After giving birth, she then drowns
the baby (your choice of gender)
A. out of despair and her inability to face
parenthood alone.
B. For revenge, or
C. to gain the new man's attention
by being unencumbered by child.The man:
A. still runs off with the other
woman
B. wins the lottery and runs off with the other woman or
C. graduates
from medical school and runs off with the other woman.
The only consistent
facts in all the variations we've heard are: the child is drowned - it's the girl
who is pregnant, never the man and she almost immediately regrets her act. She's
always haunting the scene of her horrible deed; weeping, sobbing, wailing, bellowing,
or hollering.
In some cases she has been said to appear headless - the
wailing coming from her detached head.... next
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