LA LLORONA

“Paulo, what is “La Llorona”?”

“La Llorona? Well, every country has an urban legend of some sort. A lot of people believe it, others think it’s all Bulls***. An example would be a woman killed from bites of spiders nesting in her hair.

La Llorona, means “The Wailing Woman”. It’s a Mexican story and goes like this:

“Once a Spanish soldier married a beautiful native woman and they had two children whom the soldier loved very much. However, the soldier came from a rich family. His parents and relations disapproved of his wife and threatened to disown him unless he married a Spanish woman. Not wishing to lose his inheritance, the soldier put away his native wife and sent for a bride from Spain.

The soldier's wife was filled with a terrible, jealous rage. To revenge herself against her unfaithful husband, she drowned their two children in the river. The soldier was horrified when he heard what she had done, and tried to have her arrested. But his wife, driven insane by rage, jealousy, and guilt, escaped into the wilds. She roamed through the land, searching the waterways for her children. But she could not find them. Her spirit still searches, wailing in guilt and grief, condemned forever to search in vain because of her terrible deed.”

Is it a true story or? You decide. The story serves to scare kids and adults alike. The fact that matters is that a lot of people swear that they’ve seen La Llorona somewhere. You must have a similar folk tale in your country.”

“Hmmm, don’t think so. I can’t think of anything. What about you Paulo? Do you have scary tales from Portugal?”

“As a matter of fact, I do. There’s the story about the “Rapariga da curva”, the girl from the curve. You can get the video of the people that died on youtube.”

“Tell us!”

“Right. Three friends have been driving in the night. They were heading to some country village but took the wrong turn somewhere and ended up getting lost. One of the guys, sitting on the back seat filmed the whole ordeal with his video camera. His friends kept on telling him to switch the thing off but he kept on filming.

Then, on this particular pitch black road with no one around, they saw a girl just standing on the side of the road. The driver decides to stop and help the girl. He asked if she wanted to be taken home. She gets in the car, put her head down and sat in silence. The other passengers asked if she wanted water or something else. Oh yeah, everytime the guy pointed his camera at the girl, the image would flicker.

Suddenly, the girl stood her arm out pointing to the road ahead and said “THERE!”

The guys asked “What? There where? What you’re saying?”

Still pointing her arm, she said “There was an accident on that curve and someone died”

“Who died? How do you know?”, the camera guy points the camera at her and sees her ghostly white face.

“I WAS THE ONE WHO DIED!”, she screams and then the car crashes.”

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“That’s a scary story Paulo!”

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The amateur video is here. Watch it if you dare...

 

 

Ciao 4 now

~ Paulo ~