{"id":12944,"date":"2019-10-10T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=12944"},"modified":"2019-10-09T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T14:04:37","slug":"the-tale-of-la-llorona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-tale-of-la-llorona\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of &#8216;La Llorona&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most famous tale or <em>leyenda<\/em> in Mexico is that of the\u00a0<em>Llorona\u00a0<\/em>or the weeping woman. No childhood in Mexico is complete without your mother having used the\u00a0<em>Llorona<\/em> to scare you into doing something. <em>\u00a1Si no te portas bien, vendr\u00e1 la Llorona a llevarte muy lejos! \u00a1Si sigues llorando, vendr\u00e1 la llorona por ti!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12945\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/c34qej\" aria-label=\"Weeping Woman 350x233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12945\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12945\"  alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-350x233.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo taken by Ryan Vaarsi found on Flickr.com with license CC BY 2.0<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>La Leyenda<\/h3>\n<p>Like all folktales,\u00a0<em>La Llorona\u00a0<\/em>has many variations. I have narrated below the version I learned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Erase una vez<\/em> (once upon a time) <em>una mujer hermosa que era muy feliz. Estaba casada con el amor de su vida el cual tambi\u00e9n estaba muy enamorado de ella. Poco despu\u00e9s de que se casaron, esta pareja de enamorados tuvo a su primer hijo. La pareja se sent\u00eda muy afortunada de su suerte. Poco tiempo despu\u00e9s, lleg\u00f3 otro hijo a llenarles el coraz\u00f3n y luego otro mas. La mujer pasaba sus d\u00edas cuidando a sus bebes y a su marido agradecida de su gran fortuna. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pero un d\u00eda, sin previo aviso, el esposo abandono a esta mujer. Ella estaba deshecha. No entend\u00eda porque la hab\u00eda abandonado. Un d\u00eda, la se\u00f1ora junt\u00f3 a sus hijos y los llev\u00f3 al rio. Lentamente sumergi\u00f3 a sus hijos hasta que los ahogo. Al darse cuenta de lo que hab\u00eda hecho, la se\u00f1ora empez\u00f3 a llorar. Era tanto su dolor por lo que hab\u00eda hecho que no pod\u00eda contener las lagrimas y empez\u00f3 a gritar \u2018\u00a1Ay, mis hijos!&#8217; Pocos minutos despu\u00e9s, se ahogo.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Fue tan fuerte el llanto que la gente del pueblo corri\u00f3 al rio para ver que pasaba. Al llegar, encontraron los cuerpos de los ni\u00f1os y de la se\u00f1ora. Muy de madrugada todav\u00eda se pueden escuchar llantos y una voz llena de tristeza que grita \u2018\u00a1Ay, mis hijos!&#8217;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many variations to this story. Some say that the woman was indigenous and the man was Spanish. Their love was forbidden and he never married her. When he did marry another woman, the indigenous woman took revenge by drowning their children.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a recreation of this story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La leyenda de la llorona\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEw92ZINfN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like all good folktales, it is not known exactly how this story took place. Some say that the story dates back to the Aztec empire and the\u00a0<em>Llorona<\/em> was one of the goddesses that would walk among the living yelling. Others say that the story was made popular\u00a0 by the church in an attempt to scare people and bring them closer to the church.<\/p>\n<h3>Songs of <em>La Llorona\u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>La Llorona <\/em>is also popular in songs. The songs began during the Mexican Revolution around 1910. There are several versions of the song. Some versions are sung by a man that has fallen in love with the <em>Llorona.\u00a0<\/em>The most popular version of this song is by the singer Chavela Vargas who recorded her version in the 1990s. Chavela&#8217;s interpretation of the song is quite beautiful because her singing captivates the melodramatic mood of this song. Below is the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chavela Vargas - La Llorona\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rNurASQ3JSc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This song has also been covered and featured in movies numerous times. More recently, it was featured in the movie Coco, and in this year&#8217;s Grammy Awards, the audience was serenaded with the voices of Angela Aguilar, Aida Cuevas and Natalia Lafourcade. What I find beautiful about this version is the versatility of this song to different voices and styles of music. The song doesn&#8217;t loose its sadness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angela Aguilar, Aida Cuevas &amp; Natalia Lafourcade: &quot;La Llorona&quot; | 2019 GRAMMYs Performance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KdWgysitPgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>La Llorona<\/em> has become an icon in Mexican culture, so much so that we have romanticised her suffering in songs and terrified our children to behave well. Does the legend of\u00a0<em>La Llorona<\/em> also exist in your country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/Weeping-Woman.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>One of the most famous tale or leyenda in Mexico is that of the\u00a0Llorona\u00a0or the weeping woman. No childhood in Mexico is complete without your mother having used the\u00a0Llorona to scare you into doing something. \u00a1Si no te portas bien, vendr\u00e1 la Llorona a llevarte muy lejos! \u00a1Si sigues llorando, vendr\u00e1 la llorona por ti!&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/the-tale-of-la-llorona\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":12945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[528698,509940,528697,104,2535],"class_list":["post-12944","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chavela-vargas","tag-folktales","tag-la-llorona","tag-mexico","tag-songs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12944\/revisions\/12950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}