The legend of the weeping woman

The sad story of La Llorona, very popular in Mexico and the areas of
Southwest of the United States, has several versions, and has existed since the days of the
Spanish conquers. It is said that there is a spirit with long black hair, a
woman of incomparable beauty, who walks the banks of the rivers, crying all night,
looking for children that she can drag to her death, drowned in the rivers.
The origins of the legend remain a mystery. As has already been said, the
versions vary, but all have one fundamental thing in common: that in each version
lives the spirit of a mother who drowned her children, and now it is destined to pass the
eternity looking for them in the rivers and in the lakes.
A version of the legend says that there lived a woman named Maria who was born in
a small and humble town. He had a legendary beauty, and he captured the looks and the
Attention of all the men of his enclosure. It was said that he spent his days doing things
typical of rural people, but in the evenings, she went out to clubs and bars,
exciting all the men who saw her. But, this Maria also had two children
men that she left alone when she left. One day, a person from his town found
the dead children in a river. Some said that she murdered them herself, but others
They claimed that the babies died simply because of their negligence.
Another version explains that a good woman and full of love married a man
rich who always gave him everything he wanted. But after she gave birth to her two
children, he began to change. He returned to a life of womanizer and alcohol, and
disappeared
times for months. It seemed that he no longer loved his wife Maria, and that when he
finally he came home, it was only to visit his two baby boys.
One night, while Maria was walking with her children on the street, her husband came in
carriage just to see the babies. He paid no attention to Mary, and when this happened,
she lost her control and, enraged, drowned her little creatures in the river. Realizing what
what he had done, he chased his children who were floating dead under the river. Since
When he finally took them out of the water it was obvious that it was impossible to save
them, Maria spent her
nights wandering the streets of the town, wearing her white and long dress, crying,
regretting the act he had committed.
In 2004, Lorena Villareal, a Mexican director, made a movie called Las
weeping, in which he adapts the legend to tell the story of three generations of
 Mexican women maldichas for la Llorona. The film tries to show how
women try to overcome the curse of the legend, and how their destiny in front of the legend
it is unavoidable.