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Moaning

Alumno Sebastin Ferreira


Fecha 08-05-2015
Profesora miss Maria Jos m
Asignatura ingles
Curso 8b

Introduction
Here we tell you the leyenda of a woman
who suffered for love and consequence
also mad.

Biography
La Llorona is a spectrum of Latin
American folklore that, according to oral
tradition, is presented as the lost soul of a
woman who murdered or lost their
children, look for these in vain and
frightened by the eerie cry to those who
see or hear

Moaning
During the first years of Colonial Mexico
there was an indigenous woman of great
beauty who became infatuated with a
Spanish and with whom he had three
children.

However this gentleman never married


and visited only in limited cases; years
later, as it suit him to the Spanish interests
he was married to a Spanish woman.

When indigenous women learned


betrayal, went mad with rage and jealousy
to the extent that killed his three children
drowning in a river, he realized what he
had done, full of great pain was also killed
himself.

Since Then, His soul has no rest and allnight wandering rivers or near the
deserted streets looking for Their children
and crying over His death, shouting and
groaning Able to horrify Anyone Who will
listen.

Even today, if you pay a little attention,


during some nights you can hear his
terrible regret "Oh my children," he
repeats since the murdered; There are
even those who claim to have been
attracted by the sight of a beautiful lonely
woman in white walking in the middle of
the night

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