Naturally, the La Llorona story has been exploited and represented in popular culture and Mexican film throughout the 20th and 21st centuries the 1960s saw the release of La Llorona, a Mexican film directed by Rene Cardona, which narrates the experiences of a family haunted by the weeping woman's evil spirit. In the colonial Mexican version, Maria gives birth to the children of a white Spaniard above her classВ and murders her offspring as an immediate reaction to his refusal to make her his wife. When Maria is refused entry to heaven without her children, she is forced to search the waters for their remains during the afterlife.

Her children drown, and many versions of the tale suggest their death was deliberate and at her own hands, prior to drowning herself. In some versions, the ranchero is unfaithful to Maria, and in others, she merely resents his emotional indifference in comparison to the attention he continues to bestow upon their children. There are different versions of the narrative, but the most popular states that Maria wooed her potential suitor by appearing aloof and difficult to win over, yet once the couple eventually marriedВ and had two children together, the young man's thoughts began to stray, dreaming of his previously wild lifestyle on the prairies. The story of La Llorona begins with a woman named Maria, blessed with natural beauty, who is determined to marry only the most handsome man she meets, shunning any man she sees as unable to match her aesthetically. Others say she is likely to appear when children are misbehaving, and still others have reported sightings of her estranged silhouette endlessly navigating Mexican lakes and rivers, wailing 'Ay, mis hijos!' or 'Oh, my children!' A Mexican Folk StoryДЄ prominent figure in folkloric horror, the main character of the La Llorona legend is doomed to an eternity of searching different bodies of water for her children, who met a tragic end with a watery grave. In Mexico, it is often said that one way to summon La Llorona (meaning The Weeping Woman) is to light red candles and enclose yourself in a room whose walls are decorated with mirrorsВ while repeating her name. 'Both a condemned woman and a Goddess bearing an ominous message.'

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