From a young age, the tale of “La Llorona”, the weeping woman, always haunted me. Even to this day, I still fear walking alone at night. “La Llorona” is an old Mexican tale of a woman who weeps by the river for her children. As the story goes, in a little village there was once a beautiful girl named Maria. She knew she was beautiful, and as she grew, so did her beauty. But she was extremely prideful in her beauty and she used it to get what she wanted. When she was a young woman, she wanted to find a man, but the men of her village were not good enough. Then one day, a ranchero came into the small village and Maria knew that she wanted him and that she would get him. He could sing, play the guitar and was known for his love of wild horses.
