La Llorona, an Oral Tradition

The falsehood of La Llorona Lechner, J. V. (2004). Allyn & Bacon anthology of tralatitious literature. Boston Pearson A and B. Lyons, G. (1972). Tales the battalion posit in Mexico. New York J. Messner. The legend of La Llorona (The weeping woman) is a well known Hispanic baloney in the Southwestern part of the United States, Mexico, Central and South the States and also Puerto Rico. Many versions of the boloney exist allowing them to fit the community where the base is being told. The story is about a beautiful woman named mare from a town near the present day city of Monterrey, NL.Mexico. She move in love with a handsome revolutionary Sergeant that was button by during the Independence War of Mexico from Spain that occurred in the 1800s. They marry each separate and have three children, due(p) to the traveling of the revolution her husband is endlessly absent. One day he comes back with another women to visit his children and pays no attention to Maria the whole visit. In furry of the dismantlet she takes her children to a nearby river and drowns them blaming her children for her husband leaving.She then comes to realization of the horrible mistake she has make and the peeing takes her kids out of her hands. She begins to yell Ay, mis hijos meaning Oh, my children and decides to kill herself. Its been told that her grief was so great that it was carried with her after death and since then she has been looking for her children in areas where weewee is near. It is said that every foggy night around eleven she for thump wonder the area and pick up kids who are walking or outside near water. The legend is used to scare children away from water areas at night and staying out to late.One of the characteristics that we find in the genre of legends and the story of La Llorona is that they are told and received as truths and are set in a historical point of view. Lechner says in her book that mess tell legends because they often endure because the y convey something important about the communitys values, perception of who they are, or concerns for their safety and well-being. It is very clear that safety is a concern when guardianship the story alive of La Llorona to the children. I decided to chose The legend of La Llorona after reading the fifth chapter f the book Allyn & Vacon anthology on conventional literature because after finishing the story it reminded me of my childhood growing up in Mexico. To refresh my memory I also read Tales the people tell in Mexico, called my parents, and called my brother asking for their version of the story. Even though it is a tragic and sad story to be told I hope is a great story to keep alive telling and retelling not just among my own culture but to share it with other people whom may not be familiar with the story.I think it might even be a great ghost story to be told in the middle of a woods at a bong paint a picture and if a river or creek is nearby you might even get to hear her torturing weeping noise of Ay mis hijos. I also had a firsthand experience with La Llorona while growing up. In a dark foggy night I decided to follow my old(a) brother Francisco and his friends into a nearby woodlands. I had perceive that they had built a secret wooden house and created a swing that was used to parachuting off into a small river which was the motivation of my secret following. After a couple of minutes of following from the distance I had lost them due to excess fog.I found myself alone in the middle of the woods when I started to hear some weeping sounds. At first those sounds were unclear and I couldnt distinguish them but as the seconds went by it sounded louder and louder until I clearly heard Ay mis hijos Ay mis hijos meaning Oh, my children I then noticed a body of a women wearing a white dress floating on extremum of the low fog coming in my direction, I could say that is where I developed my talent as a runner because I do it back to my house in a flash. After that I never wondered the woods alone at nights and respected the legend of La Llorona.