La Llorona – a haunting figure from Latin folklore – is said to be a ghostly spirit who wanders rivers and waterways, searching for her lost children. With her mournful cries and chilling presence, La Llorona serves as a cautionary tale of maternal love, loss, and the consequences of betrayal. But some believe “The Weeping Woman” is very real and very threatening…
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Episode Source Material
BOOKS
PRINT NEWS
- Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) A legend of the City of Mexico via Library of Congress.
- The Evening Index (San Bernardino, CA). Chino has a ghost all its own now via newspapers.com.
- The Los Angeles Times. Film’s horrors are all too real by Carlos Aguilar via newspapers.com.
- The New York Times. Mother sentenced in deaths via Times Machine.
- The New York Times. Around the nation; 6 thrown into bayou; Houston mother jailed via Times Machine.
ACADEMIC PAPERS
- Western Folklore (Volume XXVII, Number 3). “La Llorona in juvenile hall” by Bess Lomax Hawes.
- Criminal Behavior and Mental Health (Volume 18, issue 3). Filicide: a comparative study of maternal versus paternal child homicide by Marieke Liem and Frans Koenraadt.
WEB/SOCIAL MEDIA/MESSAGE BOARDS
- La Llorona: an introduction to the weeping woman. (online article).
- La Llorona (encyclopedia article.)
- The curse of La Llorona: the real legend behind the horror film (online article).
- Rebozo (encyclopedia article.)
- La Llorona (online article).
- The legend of La Llorona – RJA ghost tours (website).
- Demystifying sage smudging with Naha Armady (online article).
- How to burn sage – and a bonus ghost story (online article).
- Eucalyptus smoke smudging stick (online store).
- Men and women kill their children in roughly equal numbers, and we need to understand why (online article).
- The return of La Llorona (online article).
- Woman recalls drowning kids in 1986 (online article).
- Woman who threw six children in bayou gets probation (online article).
- Mystery of the first mestizo/loyal to father, Malinche’s son lost to history (online article).
- La Llorona: roots, branches, and the missing link from spain (online article).