La Llorona
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La Llorona is a vengeful ghost in Hispanic American folklore who is said to roam near bodies of water mourning her children she drowned in the river. Whoever hears her crying is said to either suffer
Statue of La Llorona on an island of Xochimilco, Mexico, 2015
In Talamancan mythology, the owl, lady of the night, is related to the myth of Wíkela, the Tulevieja, the weeping woman of Bribri legend
In Chiloé, Pucullén is a tall, thin woman, dressed in black, whose crying announces the death of some person
The Mexica goddess Cihuacóatl
La Malinche
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Marina or Malintzin, more popularly known as La Malinche, was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who became known for contributing to the Spanish invasion of the Aztec Empire, by acting as an
La Llorona
…United States. Her legend is traditionally told throughout Mexico, Central America and northern South America. La Llorona is sometimes conflated with La Malinche, the Nahua woman who served as Hernán Cortés's interpreter and also bore his son. La Malinche is considered both the mother of the modern Mexican people…
Malintzin, in an engraving dated 1886.
Codex Azcatitlan, Hernán Cortés and Malinche (far right), early 16th-century indigenous pictorial manuscript of the conquest of Mexico
La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th-century codex History of Tlaxcala
The meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma II, with Malinche acting as interpreter.