She took the phrase "Ride or Die" to a whole another level!

@vibinducky

4 жыл бұрын

XD Lol, so true! XDD

@UdodaTube

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@theuglybiker

4 жыл бұрын

So..... what would happen if you DID stop and pick her up?

@Mr.Random3D

4 жыл бұрын

@@UdodaTube take your soul 😎

@UdodaTube

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mr.Random3D first my virginity

If anything, the story of La Llorona, would seem most logical as a warning to unfaithful husbands.

@jyzz6784

4 жыл бұрын

Nick Hentschel or don't drown your children

@totallyecchi2125

4 жыл бұрын

Nick Hentschel I agree with you bro.

@appletherapy3492

4 жыл бұрын

Its mostley a screwed up story. You got this tragic story about how a woman became a monster looking for her kids. Then at night, you may be scared that you may hear her in the streets at night.

@blackgirlburntout

4 жыл бұрын

Thats because your a good man lol. :) you can make negative choices about you not what other do after you make poor choices. (Not saying "she should have drowned her kids", but it was interesting and refreshing to see someone take the side of responsibility a step higher.)

@joseangelhernandez5274

4 жыл бұрын

The older people in my family would scare me and my sisters when we were little with stories of sightings of her from people they knew back in Mexico.

I remember my grandmother and my mom telling me stories about her it always kept me at bed on time lol

@hermitcard4494

5 жыл бұрын

The power of fear to control ignorant kids xD

@soulreaverfan1983

5 жыл бұрын

@@hermitcard4494 i know right? But hey that's Mexican parent's technique 101 it freaking works lol

@emilysalazar3546

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@Geribuny

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Dominican.....I had "El Cuco" scaring the bejeezus out of me. Doesn't help that the story was also used to warn children of going near a dried up well by our neighborhood.

@innominatusambrosius7103

4 жыл бұрын

I have seen La Llorona, she is beautiful, but she needs to learn to smile again...

I remember reading a reddit post, about how the OP went home late one day and was beginning to hear someone called out. OP could understand it, after all OP was Mexican. So she hurried back, and the calls where getting louder and louder. Finally, OP reaches home, and his mother was waiting outside the door looking very angry. However instead of scolding OP, she tells OP to go inside. OP then watched as Mom sat down on a rocking chair outside, watching into the distance where OP heard the cries. A figure shrouded in white appeared, and OP's Mom took off her chancla and shouted at it. It went on for a while before the figure leaves. Even la chanclas scare ghosts.

@notthebest2968

3 жыл бұрын

The true monster is a angry mother with a chancla

@urbanwarchief

3 жыл бұрын

She has strong medicine

@Attackontrashcan

2 жыл бұрын

Who wouldn't be scared of an angry mom

@galaxystarrs5432

Жыл бұрын

I would. My own mom almost put me through the wall :'D

@brandondavidson4085

Жыл бұрын

I choose to believe that La Llorona's "kryptonite" is mothers who would rather defend their children than to hurt them in their own grief.

Don’t forget that la Llorona was one of the eight premonitions shown to the Aztec Tlatoni before the Spanish Conquest

@keeraridgeway5928

4 жыл бұрын

The Jaime Hernandez hey where did you read that or study that ? Because I like to learn about that

@nichoudha

4 жыл бұрын

@John Newman Is that why the Aztecs called themselves the Mexica people and have myths relating to founding Mexico?

@jaimehernandez8333

4 жыл бұрын

Keera Ridgeway www.google.com.mx/amp/s/masdemx.com/2016/03/las-ocho-profecias-predijeron-la-caida-del-imperio-azteca/%3famp

@jaimehernandez8333

4 жыл бұрын

Jarin Jove actually the Mexicas were a tribe that settled in some islands in the lake of Xochimilco now under Mexico City (Yes the lake is under the city), the mexicas created a city named Mexico-Tenochtitlan. The mexicas had an enemy tribe called Azcapotzalco, the mexicas United with other two tribes (Tacuba and Texcoco) to defeat Azcapotzalco, that union was called the Aztec union. The Aztecs really were a union of three tribes and the lands they conquered. When the Spaniards arrive, they couldn’t pronounce Mexico-Tenochtitlan, so they called it the city of Mexico. The colony the Spaniards conquered wasn’t called Mexico, but “New Spain”, it wasn’t until the Mexican war for independence that a congress decided that the name of the new independent country will be Mexico, like it’s more populous city. In fact, Mexico was gonna he called Anahuac, as the valley Mexico City is in...

@jaimehernandez8333

4 жыл бұрын

J C actually the definition of empire is: a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom... with that in mind, yes, the Aztecs were in fact an empire

with la llorona being such a prevalent mythical figure, even down here in argentina we got versions of the same story -dead women who cry for their dead children or for their abandoning husbands. i did not know about the roots of the original mexican story, nor about its importance and possible meanings. thanks for that -and for those interesting reads to check out in the bibliography! i dont know if you take requests or recommendations, but id love for monstrum to tackle any of the broad genre of "created" monsters, like frankenstein's creature, androids, living statues and golems. or, any other examples like la llorona of female monsters -i think its a fascinating subject.

@qwertzqwertz7618

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I too would love an episode about man-made artificial monsters! Lots of stuff to interpret there.

@pbsstoried

5 жыл бұрын

You must be reading my mind. Stay tuned!

@UdodaTube

4 жыл бұрын

I want to hear about the the la chuza folktales, owl lady

@Ruby321123

4 жыл бұрын

@@UdodaTube Definitely!

@ropytube

4 жыл бұрын

In Brazil we have “a mulher de branco” although not much is known about her. It’s usually truck drivers who see her at night and sometimes give her a lift, only to find out she was actually a ghost

I'm super happy you went over the overlapping nature of la Llorona and Malinche! While I was studying Mesoamerican History in my undergrad years, my professor went over the image of Malinche within Mexican and Mestizo culture and how it has shifted over the centuries. Glad to see an in depth look at the social and cultural history of la Llorona and how it constantly shapes how we interpret her over time!

I remember my mother telling me this story. She didnt give her a name or a backstory, but she modernized her. She said a crazy woman became so filled with despair that she took her and her kids and drove them all over a cliff. She wasn't allowed into heaven until she found her kids, but unfortunately for her, god had already taken her kids to heaven, so she was doomed to look for her kids that she could never find.

We have a local legend in my area very similar to this, but we call her Theorosa. There was even a small bridge named "Theorosa's Bridge". The legend is very similar, in that she is thought to have been a native (plains tribe, maybe Sioux, or Wichita) woman, she was a mother to a white man's child, drowned the child in her despair (though I was told it was accidental), and walks the water's edge crying and looking for her child. I'm sure this is probably just a variation of La Llorona, as Kansas is not far from old Mexican territories, and we have a lot of residents that are Mexican immigrants or have Mexican heritage. Neat video, and thanks!

@NodDisciple1

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like the San Antonio Donkey Lady. Who...other than her deformity and origin...is very similar to La Llorna in behavior.

@nicolcacola

3 жыл бұрын

This gives me the chills because in Arizona my family and I would always vacation at a secluded spot on the river surrounded by native owned land. One night we left late from a day of fun on the water, and by the time we got our water craft loaded the sun had already gone down. The back road taken leading to the main road is always very secluded, no street lights, homes, stores or the like for miles, and having driven on it for years, my dad knew it like the back of his hand and always drove faster than necessary. We started on our way with no issues, then all of a sudden my mom sitting in the passenger seat screamed. We all shot up and saw my dad swerving around a what appeared to be a native teen girl dressed in white standing in the road. Swerving around her, we passed her on my side of the car, and glancing at her in almost what seemed to be slow motion, she stood and turned to look at me expressionless but with hate in her eyes. We were all FREAKED out, not only be because my dad almost hit somebody, but because there was someone standing in the road in the middle of literally nowhere. We talked about turning around, but given the situation and the oddity of it all, my mom decided to call the local police for a welfare check instead. When it was time for my mom to give a description of the women seen in the road she described her as an old woman with greying hair in a white nightgown and I exclaimed to my mother, no, she was a young woman with jet black hair in a white dress! We both looked at eachother with eyes as big as saucers to say the least. I still think about her to this day and still try to process logically what we experienced but I accept I may never understand. Come to think of it, if my dad didn't know the road so well hauling water toys going at the speed he was, swerving around her could have very well resulted us being hurled off the road resulting in a very bad crash. Here's to hoping that's not what "she" wanted 😱🤞

@HerrW0lf

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicolcacola You're lucky she didn't appeared on your backseat. I hope she doesn't follow you in your dreams.

@reigee2869

Жыл бұрын

The Aztecs had amazing trade routes and were known to trade with both north and South American tribes despite distance. Contrary to what this video says, some historians believe the tale of the llorona predates the Spanish conquest and it just underwent a makeover to turn into the story we recognize today. The tribes in Kansas might’ve adapted the story during prehispanic times in their trade.

I heard a version where the husband loved the children more than her, so she drowned them thinking it would take his attention from them back to her, but he just left her (for obvious reasons). She was so depressed that she drowned herself. When she went to the underworld, she was punished to find her children in the marsh she drowned them in. Sometimes she drowns other children wandering the marsh, thinking they could pass as hers, which, of course, they don't, and she is sent back to search for her children.

@FanoftheFrog

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up with a version similar, as a kid i thought it was to warn us about drowning cuz la llorona be wandering there. Idk why this channel didnt mention that it warns children lol

It surprised me the depth of research you guys did for this short video, thanks for honoring my country's most popular horror bedtime tale

I remember as a child, seeing a short part of La Llorona not in white, but in black mourning the loss of her children. I like the way you narrated the story. Also, I think back in time, the diagnosis of Post Partum Depression was not known. It may have been Post Partum Depression.

I am Mexican and I approve this message!!!😎

@CephaloPunk03

4 жыл бұрын

Marco Antonio Valdez Rubio Same but I can’t help but cringe at the pronunciation 🤣

@rentals1798

4 жыл бұрын

DJ Nintendo 2003 Same, I’m Mexican and the pronunciation is pretty cringey. lol

@fragolegirl2002

4 жыл бұрын

I am Ecuadorian and I don’t care that you do 😃👍🏽

@rowanking7518

4 жыл бұрын

eso es genial amigo¡

@carlossanchezr.7283

4 жыл бұрын

No le hagan a la mamada con la pronunciación.

Great video! La llorna is one of my favorite mexican folktales as she represents so many things with a long and diverse history. This will also help with writing. Thanks alot

@bennu547

4 жыл бұрын

Yes killing children is a great thing to respect. Treat the murderer like a victim yeah that makes sense

@tlaloc27

4 жыл бұрын

@@bennu547 she never killed any children she only worn my Ancestors of what was to come soon she was one of the bad omens she was never a human woman

Well, just one thing, La Llorona isn't just a Mexican legend, the story are in all Latin America... (I'm Nicaraguan and we have our own version)

@pbsstoried

5 жыл бұрын

Very true! She's crossed borders and cultures for a long time.

@luismijangos7844

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Guatemalan. I verify the fact that this legend has traveled here too.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

Are you ok? Last I saw, there was a revolt going on down there.

@epicfailure7980

4 жыл бұрын

Francisco Miguel Saballos Velasquez I’m half Peruvian. Her legend has reached there too.

@hiramcastillo9049

4 жыл бұрын

I am Panamanian and the Altoona have like 3 names here xD

I remember being told this story growing up in Texas. But, in the stories I was told, she was punished by having the head of a horse. She also not only drowned her children, but stabbed them also because the man she was seeing didn't want her kids. Of course, he rejected her when he found out and in her grief, drowned herself in the Rio grande.

@Ebrill_Owen

3 жыл бұрын

I’m from Dallas, TX and was told this story as a young child. She’s even prevalent in Dallas culture too! She’ll always be my favorite ghosts.

@rougestarlight4308

3 жыл бұрын

That's the siguanaba, wey

@Rothbart24

3 жыл бұрын

That's intriguing, because the kelpie is another water spirit with the head of a horse. Perhaps there were some cross-cultural influences there.

I should stop watching these videos at midnight. This made me remember the first time my mom told me about La Llorona (/.\)

@solomonamador4109

4 жыл бұрын

I have a river next to my place sometime i hear crying

This channel is SLEPT ON!! It’s so original and the videos are so informative and well done. Bravo!! 👏🏻

"Ay de mi, llorona, llorona. Llorona de azul celeste..."~🎵

@jeskvell3254

4 жыл бұрын

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@HerrW0lf

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeskvell3254 kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6uCpMNtYNyYn6Q.html better ;)

@luciamota1249

3 жыл бұрын

That's a different Llorona... Different legend. The legend that inspired that song is from Oaxaca and it's about the tragic love story of a man who met the love of his life and then went to war. It has nothing to do with this "scary" Llorona

@HerrW0lf

3 жыл бұрын

@@luciamota1249 thanks for the head up. It's hard to keep track of all the latin american folklore because it's so wide spread and there's so much of it and like every region has some alterations and own spins on the stories.

I really like the research put behind those videos. Ty.

I remember I heard her lament when I was like 8. I live in Mexico City in front of a river and in one night of usual insomnia I heard some really heavy weird crying saying "AAAHHHHHH" instead of "Ay mis hijoooos (Ah my childreeen)" the latter being how she supposedly cries. I told my mom the next morning and she said she has heard her too but always crying like "AAAHHHH". No more encounters ever since.

@jameswatson5807

3 жыл бұрын

I am from the UK and I believe you. There are definitely supernatural entities out there. My caught on camera, the woman in black, and when I was watching a documentary on the paranormal this woman describe seeing the exact same thing my friend had on camera but this woman was from the United States. For some strange, many countries have the woman in white. So there is more of her.

*- ¿Que es la llorona? - Es la mujer que llora...* Lololololololololo translated it sounded so stupid and redundant in Spanish; as if some asks what is a waterfall and the other answers "it's water that falls" xD

@EmperorOfSomething

5 жыл бұрын

That sounds so poetic and deep to me. lol

@ginopalomino5681

5 жыл бұрын

yo también lo entendí así en español xD

@erinlee5936

4 жыл бұрын

I read that in Gabriel Iglesias voice 😂 Thanks for the laughs!

@ladypossum1776

4 жыл бұрын

It's the same when people say The River Rio Grande. When I hear it's "Big River River"🤣

@user-vt6lq9wg6s

3 жыл бұрын

* La mujer que llora* xddd Se mamo xd

My mom is an Archeologyst, she has done recorridos (tours) on the capital, and you information is quite on spot, good job, however la Llorona never was a boogeyman kind of story, it was meant to children and adults alike, I also remember people saying that looking at her face will give you a hearth attack, that was normally the thing that was mentioned back in my chilhood years. As a Mexican, and son of a, lets say especialist on the topic, I thank you for this greatly informed video. As a plus, take in mind that la llorona is a legend on other countries of Central and South America, (such as Argentina, Chile, Guatemala Paraguay, Venezuela, among others) it's not limited to the Mexican culture, so much so that Uruguay-ian version is said to be the most unnerving one, even having an invocation ritual.

@rodrigocoockiemonster4460

5 жыл бұрын

As for the version of the car, I never heard it as la Llorona, the legend of the girl in the highway or La Chica de la Curva, was always know as a eomam who died on a car accident and whise ghostvwould ask for a car ride to then porceed another accident, her name was Teresa Fidalgo.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

You should look into the San Antonio Donkey Lady. It's a Texan version of the tale. All though we also have La Llorna and an Owl Witch/Woman here too. All seem to be very similar.

@rodrigocoockiemonster4460

4 жыл бұрын

@@dubuyajay9964 I'll sure do! Thanks for the recommendation.

@NodDisciple1

4 жыл бұрын

@@rodrigocoockiemonster4460 Also...Houston has a "Hollering Woman Creek" which was mentioned in an above comment. Apparently is a haunting ground for a La Llorna. I say "a" because it seems there may be multiple versions of this being as it's been reported throughout so much of Latin America and parts of North America beyond Mexico (mainly former Spanish and Mexican Colonies).

@rodrigocoockiemonster4460

4 жыл бұрын

@@NodDisciple1 Yes, afterall, it's pretty much the same continent, there are certain aspects or trends that reoeat from region to region

Do a legend on la chancla know that’s scarier than la llorana plus it’s a culture part of Mexico

@XoXoG

3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t that a flip flop 🩴 lol

Huh suddenly the woman in white from Supernatural makes so much more sense!

@pluspiping

3 жыл бұрын

Supernatural mangled a LOT of stuff, but it's always interesting to go look the monsters up! And the show is often fun too, lol

It was awesome, could you please put a video about Polynesian mythology(Maui).Thank

It's kinda (un)surprising after a whole 8 months nobody mentioned a certain Japanese yokai called Ubume (of part Japanese and part Chinese origins, nightmarishly complicated stuff tbh) which shares some strikingly similar features with la llorona and with Banshee to some extent as well. She's also said to be a ghost of a woman deceased at chidbirth that may or may not try to steal your child. She is closely associated with the waterside, where she's said to have died and haunt. She's got some avian connections as well like Banshee has, depending on the legend. Her publicity outside of its country of origin so far has been so scarce because of her relative lack of anime/manga appearance so I'd appreciate it a lot if you guys consider covering the topic, although I'm afraid I'm too late to the party to be noticed.

I live in Australia but my dad and untie grew up in Mexico and they use to always tell me they would hear La Llorona crying in there hall way while they slept, safe to say I was pretty traumatised after hearing that

Man it's great to come across a genuinely enlightening KZread channel. Incidentally I'm from Albuquerque and I always thought la llorona was a New Mexican thing--here she haunts the banks of the Rio Grande--but that's the whole thing about myths and folklore, they're endlessly adaptable.

Unfortunately, I heard the Curse of La Llorona movie was not very good at all. That's the true tragedy.

@carol352

4 жыл бұрын

Mitch Neu I saw it I liked it but I prefer others if you like jump scares then you should watch it

im not mexican, but the tale of La Llorona was told to me by my tias and tios when they came to babysit me when i was a toddler, i was stubborn, so i never wanted to go to bed. What I was told was that there was a poor, beautiful woman who did fall in love with a man who was rich. They had 3 children and raised them. One day, the husband came home with a younger, richer woman then left with her and abandoned the wife and children. Because she was so angry, she was blinded with anger and didn't realize what she was doing. She threw her kids into the river and drowned them because the husband loved the children more than her. When she snapped out of it, she realized what she had done, she drowned herself so that she could be with her kids. She was basically denied entry into heaven if she didn't have her kids, so she searches around rivers at night, calling "mis hijos" (my children) and sometimes will take other children and drown them to go into heaven with her mistaking them for her own. This is what i was told, but it still prevents me from going near rivers, lakes, even pools at night alone without somebody else

@Monstrum Please do an episode of the Mothman

@crescentmu

5 жыл бұрын

Yesss

@minhhieu7658

5 жыл бұрын

Lamp

@UdodaTube

4 жыл бұрын

Moth man is faker than fake news

@soulreaverfan1983

4 жыл бұрын

@@UdodaTube nobody asked your opinion troll

@robertrubi3805

4 жыл бұрын

LAMP!

Another great origin video .. I like looking up D&D and Video Game Bestiaries .. I'm such a nerd .. lol Thanks for everything .. Appreciate yah ..!

I love this content. I wish the eps were closer to 10 or 20 minutes like Eons!

This story reminds me a lot of the plot in Toni Morrisson’s Beloved. I don’t want to spoil any specifics; go read it, it’s a great book. It even has a lot of parallels with regard to themes of oppression and violence, i.e. slavery and colonisation respectively. Really interesting video, thanks for that!

This gave my Mexican blood chills my papa used to tell me all about this to scare me into being good best believe it worked😂

I loved this video, I never knew the Lady in White came from Mexican tradition. I heard the story growing up but it was about a lower class woman, instead of a native woman, married to an upper-class man who abandoned her and their children. It was used, in my family anyway, both for children to not stray too far from home at night and also to not trust rich men. Any chance you'll cover Hellhounds/Black Dogs?

@pbsstoried

5 жыл бұрын

There are so many different variations of her story I’m not surprised to hear that. The root message seems to be the same though. As to hellhounds...you never know!

A beautiful and sad tale,but scary too!

I love the illustrations here

In Philippines, there is a famous story of The Girl in Balete Drive where in a girl dressed in white appear on the backseat of the passing cars too. I remembered it in this video.

What About Other Mexican Legends Like! 1. Charro Negro 2. La Planchada 3. Bubak 4. El Cadejos 5. El Silbon

What is so scary about her is what she went through. If you know her story, you get scared because of her life being worse and more tragic than people who can imagine what it feels like to have a cheating husband who refuses to show responsibility. Her husband seemed to be jerk.

I just finished a unit about the Aztecs and the Fall of Tenochtitlan. This was a well-made video and will be great for my students. Thank you!

Thanks for tieing the the historical information togeather.

Oh... Medea. I thought I missed a uncharacteristically dark Madea sequel for a second there.

@GingerKraut

4 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for someone to mention the Greek mythology element. The version of LaLlorona that I learned involved a woman who was involved with a man of higher social status...basically, don't fall in love with someone not in your "class."

Isn't that a song from the 80's? Ooh my little scary one. My scary one. No one is as scary as LA LLORONA!!

@antonmasters8626

3 жыл бұрын

I need the full lyrics to this lol

@spazbobstinkpants

2 жыл бұрын

There is a song from 2003 called "She Turned Into Llorona" by Manic Hispanic (rock/punk). That is where I first heard of La Llorona. It can be heard on YT (of course).

I already love this channel, and I bet subscribers will go through the roof quite soon. Emily is a great host and the topics are well researched and presented.

I've heard this story growing up in Arizona. Every time it rained they would say she would come out and take kids.

Wow this video was amazing. You just taught me so much about her that I didn't knew before. I didn't know she had so much depth and bigger meaning behind her😁👍

This is so interesting! Now, I just want to stop singing "La Llorona" in my head to the tune of "My Sharona"…

@nocomprendo1409

4 жыл бұрын

My bologna.

@katerinapetrova6633

4 жыл бұрын

same

@Tendummiez69420

4 жыл бұрын

La corona

@i3lului311

3 жыл бұрын

Omg

@nicolasvelasquez3595

3 жыл бұрын

The shorouna

My grandma told me and always made me cry

me living in new mexico always hearing of El cucuy and la llorona gives me shivers cause in school my librarian would read the story every year ofc this is elementary so i had nightmares every time

MY MOM DOES YOUR HAIR!! Took 23 seconds to fall in love with your work!!

Hola, soy un mexicano promedio con medio minuto de fama, vengo a decir que amé este video y que mi cultura lo aprueba

I’m not even sure how I got to this channel but now I’m binge watching it! Awesome concept and excellent insights

WOW! Just goes to show how human history and our folklore and legends are so closely tied. Awsome video! Would love to see one done about Banshees one day !!

It's funny how much this story brings back memories. Watching the first episode of Supernatural with my Poppy is one of my favourite ones. Thank you for further exploring the story behind this memory. Would you consider taking a look at the Bunyip from Australia? I haven't seen it spoke about in many shows like this, and would love to hear your take on it.

Well done!

I discovered this channel last night, but had to wait till day to watch this one XD no way I was watching one on La Llorona before going to bed

love 2 listen 2 DR's lovely voice

Actually "La Llorona" is not a legend exclusive to Mexico. I'm venezuelan and when I was a kid I used to hear stories about her...

@Deogen

4 жыл бұрын

But is it real

@anemixnabla1741

4 жыл бұрын

It's true. I am Colombian I have Heard about La Llorona in the countryside of Colombia.

@emireno149

4 жыл бұрын

But the llorona took place in Mexico

@kermitthefrog2578

4 жыл бұрын

@@Deogen well, if you start hearing weeping you'd better run away

@rougestarlight4308

3 жыл бұрын

Ten en cuenta que en Latinoamérica las historias viajan de país en país

I remember reading about back-seat ghost passengers in China a few years back. Sounds related. Thanks for another great episode!

I love this channel ! Fun informative ! Good talk over a glass of wine !!

I love her a lot

This is probably the most popular "ghost-monster" here in Mexico. It's probably the first one I've ever heard from, and it is everywhere, even in other latinamerican countries. I have a personal saying that everytime I say when I'm telling stories, the people who are listening agree: If there is a river, a lake or water nearby, that place will have its own Llorona.

I find some of the aztec mythology a little inaccurate. Mocihuaquetzqueh would mean "Women who rose themselves". Cihuateteo were not the only ones who could achieve aferlife, they could go to Tonatiuh Ichan, the Sun's home, and the accompanied the sun from midday to sunset, while male warriors accompanied it from sunrise to midday. There were other 3 possible aftelives one could acchieve, depending on the circumstances of death. They only descended to earth to cause some trouble on special days. Cihuacoatl wasn't the first woman, that would be Oxomoco, but she indeed was the patron godess of cihuateteo.

I cant be the only one who has an urge to grab and play my guitar when i heard "la llorona" lol

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This is similar to the white lady in the Philippines 😂

@lilyjaboh

4 жыл бұрын

Noreen Estanislao Its based on La Llorona. Same like Malaysia’s Pontianak, only difference is she died from childbirth or when she is pregnant and isnt aware of that.

@Valorhammer

4 жыл бұрын

You seem to forget we [Filipinos] are the younger colony of Spain. The reason why we're so similar to Mexico and the rest is because we got a LOT of hand me downs. Including La Llorna.

@yehet4460

4 жыл бұрын

Omg we have a LOT of monsters herr tbh noh

@MariaRodriguez-hp2vk

4 жыл бұрын

@@yehet4460 not here Mexico pendeho

@yamnueva2932

3 жыл бұрын

we have these, La leonora. maria leonora Teresa.

I'm sure female monsters had a meeting and said; LeTs OnLy wEaR wHiTe!

Dr. Zarka, you're awesome!!!!

For the true story of La Llorona, you all must see the film Santo y Mantequilla Napoles en La Venganza de La Llorona. This is the truest version and possibly might be on KZread. It's in Spanish though. BTW, I LOVE this channel Dr. Emily! I can't wait for next season.

Good video, the only issue I have with it it's that mexica women who died at childbirth were not cursed to haunted crossroads. In the mexica mythology, the women who died at childbirth were rewarded with an after life as companions of the solar God, just like the warriors that died on battle, they accompany the sun on its journey through the sky.

@pokemonviolet5418

5 жыл бұрын

Jorge Ramirez I’m pretty sure there’s also a myth where they become basically vampires. Maybe it varies from region to region

I also recommend your team looks into La Mocuana, also a sad tale from the collusion of Spaniards and indigenous tribes, in both versions she was betrayed by a man in her life, either her father or her Spaniard lover. Fun Fact: Malinche is also the name for a tree in Nicaragua.

I had asked for this one! Thanks Monstrum!

I was told this when I was young and it scared me to the core when I was young

Hearig white people pronounce la llorona always makes me giggle. Also, I love how my mom instilled a fear of la llorona so strongly in my very soul, its the once spooky thing that actually scares me edit: my mom told us stories of how she's heard her before. She grew up in a village in Mexico, her family were farmers, so creepy wooded areas + rivers and streams = hearing her a lot. She said it tried to kill her brother once when he was a teenager. The only reason he survived was because neighboring farmers and their sons found him lost in the woods, looking like he was in a trance on the bank of a river. Her brother told them he just remembered hearing her crying and then he was waking up, cold and wet on the riverbank, like he's jumped in. He died later on though. My mom said he fell out of a tree when he was in his twenties. She said after he died, they saw his ghost hanging out in the tree he fell from for a few days.

@mojojojoplus2

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, your uncle's story is quite a tale! Where in Mexico was that? I think Dr. Zarka is closeish, she's using an 'uh' instead of an 'o' for for the first 'o' in llorona. She's saying something like 'yurona'. She's leaning towards 'uh' for the first vowel in malniche as well.

I feel like growing up every Hispanic family I knew including my own have at least one family member that claimed to have some kind of encounter with La Llorona LOL

@kaamn1829

3 жыл бұрын

Yo, that's true. I swear mis primas would talk about one experience they had all the time. We had a similar one later while camping where there was definitely a woman wandering around nearby us in the woods crying for what felt like forever even though it was in the middle of nowhere and the river nearby should have drowned out the sound. Luckily we were not drowned. So traumatizing. 😓😅

Wow this is the best video of la llorona I've seen 👍🏻🇲🇽

Who else can't get enough of storied

What? No reference to the aztecs premonitions on the book "La visión de los vencidos"?

Here in Philippines, who also was colonized by spain, we have White/Black Lady for La Llorona.

@lasagna4layf132

4 жыл бұрын

Balete Drive lol

@armalvior

4 жыл бұрын

Maria Labo

@jameswatson5807

3 жыл бұрын

In the black lady is seen in different parts of the UK. There is more than one of them, I think it is a species of dark entities.

Thanks - I had been asking for coverage of this tale. It was done very well. I did not know about La Malinche.

I loved how you presented this mith... so accurate, and I know that as a mith it varies from place to place... The story I heard in my childhood told me that La Llorona and La Malinche were the same person... one night in my mid twenties I heard the weeping of la Llorona, and I freak out!...

Instant nightmare fuel.

Those female spirits that you glance through are called Tzitzimimeh (Tzitzimitl singular).

In Nicaragua there is an urban legend called "Carreta Nagua", a rickety and loose cart covered in white sheets driven by "Muerte Quirina" (the mistress of death, a legend by itself). The cart is pulled by two stunted and skinny oxen with the ribs almost out. It roams the streets late at night making a lot noise as it jolts like rolling over cobblestone roads and slams the pitted wheels. Dogs howl, people left with fever, some lose their speech for several days or even die by the fright of the Carreta Nagua. Thing is that you actually often hear carts pass by at night in Nicaragua, wich makes the legend of the Carreta Nagua more terrifing 💀😱

I hope you can feature the Aswang -- philippine vampire in your future episodes

Whenever Karen can’t take the kids: 1:30

Every time she says "La Llorona", I hear it to the tune of The Kinks "My Sharona".

@83croissant

4 жыл бұрын

Listened to that song again and I forget it says “always get it up for the touch of the younger kind” ew ew ew ew

Sad story love her

I heard this story when i was kid and i always thought that it was a sad yet scary story

Nobody: KZread recommendations:

Pronunciation need work. At 2:28 she says "Yeah, that's a La Llorona". "La" is the feminine article equivalent to "the" in English. You don't say "Yeah, that's a The Weeping Woman." Also, the "ya" sound is too hard. "Ll" is pronounced somewhere between the soft "yuh" and harder "juh". The name comes from Spanish "Llorar" meaning "to weep". Be careful with the language, especially since there is so much controversy now over the status of Spanish in the United States, and those who speak it.

@dubuyajay9964

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm a gringo from a border state and even I died a little on the inside each time she butchered the word.

This was really good! And the connections to La Malinche work well with the legend. I’m from Perth 🇦🇺, but my roots are from El Salvador 🇸🇻, we have a similar ghostly woman or in our case a witch named La Siguanaba, her origin and her relationship with her son El Cipitio is the most popular folklore, my dad would tell me about how his grandmother had a brief encounter with her. I think you should have a look into this legend for a future video if possible!

Great videos! Love them :D

Fun Fact... If you hear La Lloronoa crying far away, she might be closer than you think.

Please do European (Celtic and German) Japanese and Near Eastern monsters!!!

I love that you've included a bibliography and that it has Anazaldua! New fan/subscriber

amazing.your speaking ia amazing