La Llorona: Roots, Branches, and the Missing Link from Spain
Posted by: Stephen Winick
This is the second blog post in a series about La Llorona, the weeping woman who haunts Mexican and other Latinx cultures. The series will be published in time for Día de Muertos 2021. In this post, I'll show some of the story's long history, especially in Mexico. I'll give links to primary sources from the 1570s showing the story was already present among Indigenous Mexicans at that time and earlier. I'll also present what I believe is new evidence of a strong link for some La Llorona stories with Spain.
Posted in: Día de los Muertos, Día de Muertos, Halloween, Hispanic American History, La Llorona