La Llorona Analysis

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The third version of La Llorona is actually the 2005 pilot episode of the popular American television series, “Supernatural.” In this episode, La Llorona is referred to as both the Weeping Woman and the Woman in White. In this retelling, she is depicted as a seductive woman who wears white clothing. She targets unfaithful men and invites them to go home with her. After the men accept her offer, she murders them and makes the bodies disappear. Her backstory is that in 1981, a woman named Constance found out that her husband was cheating on her. In her rage, she drowned her two children. Then, she realized that she had murdered her own children, so she took her life. What’s intriguing about this retelling is that one of the male protagonists

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