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As one writer put it, “It is finally time to let go of a single, narrow understanding of the tale and to see La Llorona instead as an always evolving emblem of gender, sexuality, and power—and, too, as another female victim of history’s tender mercies” (Candelaria, 115).
See also La Carreta de la Muerte; Doña Sebastiana; La Llorona; Los Penitentes
La Llorona (The Weeping Woman)
Contemporary texts of La Llorona collected in Mexico assert that the original Llorona was La Malinche, the mistress of Cortés.
The prodigious amount of published literature about La Llorona, by folklorists, literary critics, anthropologists, and feminist writers, attests to the complexity of the legend.