La Llorona Essay

In Mexican culture, La Llorona folklore is the storytelling that has passed on through generations for many years. Even though, folklores changed by new tellers. Every folklore needed to be analyzed and see how it had changed over years depending on the tellers. For instance, my family had been telling the folktale about “La Llorona” but it has been discovered that there were different versions of La Llorona in different places. The purpose of folklore is to scare children to behave, or not to go to dangerous places, or so many different reasons. This folktale can be considered as teaching morals, or cautionary tales, or familial cultural heritage. This folktale of La Llorona was from Mexico or even from the past in Mexico such as the Aztecs. La Llorona is one of the famous folktale for centuries and there are different stories regarding La Llorona over years.

Fuller (2015) found that La Llorona was about the Mexican woman who attempted to kill

La Llorona was raged and revenged her lover by killing her children. In addition, the legend changed over time and there were different versions of the wailing woman in different regions. La Llorona was the interpretation of the history when Spaniards came to conquer indigenous people’s lands in Mexico and Spaniards treated indigenous people awful. Indigenous people were raged with Spaniards that they raped indigenous women and left them for much wealthy Spain women. Some says that the folktales of La Llorona was to scare children to behave, not to disrespect parents, not to go out alone at night, not to play by the lake, and so on. If children misbehave, and parents will tell them that La Llorona will come to get them. La Llorona only wanted children and she will snatch children into the lake. Folktales have passed through generations, and changed by new tellers in the