La llorona. Colombian oral tradition.

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Glossary

La Llorona:
This is the name that people from Tolima gave to a ghost that habits the region near to the Magdalena River because of its terrifying crying and screaming according to the oral tradition.

Magdalena:
The name of a very important Colombian river that crosses the entire country.

Male chauvinist:
A man whose behavior and attitude toward women indicate a belief that they are innately inferior to men.

Illiterate:
To have little or no formal education.

Grieving:
To feel, show or express sadness or regret.

La Llorona

This story takes place in Tolima, a Colombian region.
Maria, a very beautiful and poor young woman, used to live in Flandes, a small town with her parents: Jose and Rosa a very traditional, catholic and moralist old married couple.

She was an innocent, graceful, very beautiful young woman; tall, thin, curvy girl, white skin, dark brown hair, light brown eyes and big red lips. Everyone in the town loved her. She was very poor and illiterate but hard worker over all, so she started to work in one of the richest houses of the region with the Gomez family.

A few weeks after working there, Maria fell in love with the house owner, Pedro Gomez. A mature man, he was tall, athletic and handsome, a male chauvinist. He was a rich farmer, the head of the most rich and powerful family of the region, married to a nice woman and with three children.
Maria fell in love with him and they had an affair, sometime after, as consequence of this affair Maria got pregnant.

When Pedro realized about Maria’s pregnancy he left her and forced her to leave the house without saying anything to anybody. With all her hopes and longings destroyed and a broken heart, after a while she returned with her parents so she had to disguise her pregnancy because of their beliefs. And when she was giving birth, terrified, desperate, without seeing any solution, she killed her own son by throwing it to the river without mercy.

A few time later Maria started feeling so guilty and the shame and blame did not leaver her alone, she lost her mind completely. Regretted, crying, she went to the Magdalena River and trying to find her son, she jumped into the river as well where she died.

But this woman’s tormented soul did not disappear; her ghost is still grieving and haunting with terrible crying the entire town. A lonely, wet, pale woman’s silhouette attracts men and when they are near to the river she kills them by drowning them. Her ghost is still haunting the region, looking for her son, threatening the inhabitants of the region, she is known as the horrible spirit of La Llorona. 

The ghost

In Tolima, at night, you can listen to a woman's terrifying screams, calling his son. And you can see the horrible ghost of a woman coming out of the river.

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Region

This story takes place in Tolima, a central region of the Colombian territory, near to the Magdalena river. In a small town called Flandes. This place has a beautiful natural landscape, with an enormous folklore, it is the musical region of the country, with a great gastronomy variety as well, warm people, who use to believe in legends, histories, ghosts.

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Characters

María:    

Young woman, tall, thin, dark brown hair, light brown eyes, big red lips, white skin, beautiful, poor, illiterate, hard worker, innocent, graceful.

Pedro:
A mature man, he was tall, athletic and handsome a male chauvinist. He was a rich farmer, the head of the most rich and powerful family of the region, married to a nice woman and with three children

Maria's Parents: 

Jose and Rosa a very traditional, catholic and moralist old married couple.

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