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La Llorona, meaning “the weeping woman” or “the howling woman,” may be represented as an Indian woman, an ugly old witch, or a beautiful woman in white with long flowing hair.
There are hundreds of variants of the La Llorona legend, all narrated about known encounters with her, during the past 200 years.
The prodigious amount of published literature about La Llorona, by folklorists, literary critics, anthropologists, and feminist writers, attests to the complexity of the legend.
Contemporary texts of La Llorona collected in Mexico assert that the original Llorona was La Malinche, the mistress of Cortés.
In addition to the legend of La Llorona (Weeping Woman), another widespread legend in Chicano folklore is the Vanishing Hitchhiker, although not always known by this name.
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