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Tuesday 12 November 2013

New Mexico - The Weeping Woman. “50 States of Freaky!” Vol. 31


New Mexico - The Weeping Woman. “50 States of Freaky!” Vol. 31


Be sure your all caught up with this series! “50 States of Freaky”

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This installment of ‘50 States of Freaky’ is going to be a unique one. The reason being is that even though our next stop is New Mexico, what we’re going to be talking about didn’t happen in New Mexico itself. You’ll see what I mean as the post goes on. So today we’re going to be talking about the widespread legend of “La Llorona” or “The Weeping Woman”. This legend has many variations, but the most common tells of a young beautiful woman named Maria who lives in Mexico. One day she sees a man who she falls deeply in love with. Only one problem, the man doesn’t like the fact that Maria has children (two I believe). So Maria takes her kids to a river and drowns them by throwing them in. Childless, Maria goes back to the man. But she finds out that the man doesn’t love her and won’t have her. Now devastated about having the man crush her heart and realizing what she’d done to her kids, Maria goes back to the river and drowns herself. When she walked up to the gates of Heaven, she was asked where her kids were. She said she didn’t know and now the only way she can enter Heaven is if she finds her kids. So now she wanders the Earth, looks for her kids. Some say that Maria will steal kids that look similar to hers. Others say that if you hear her scream, you’ve been marked for death. She has been said to have been heard screaming “Estos son mis niños!” which translates to “These are my children!”. Now the reason this legend is tied to New Mexico is because it’s used to explain why the town of Colfax is now a ghost town. Maria was said to have been seen haunting a local church. She’d be sitting in the back, crying over the death of her son. Her spirit was seen so frequently that people began to move away from the town and eventually the place became a ghost town because of Maria’s spirit. Is the story mainly just another cautionary tale? Yes. Stories like this usually have many variations. But I have to say that the utilization of this story to how a town became a ghost town is very interesting. Perhaps there could be some truth to it (a very, VERY small percentage mind you). But what do you think? Do you think that this story is actual truth or is it just a made up legend to scare kids from doing bad things? Do you believe that a ghost (not necessarily Maria’s ghost) could partially be the reason everyone/some left the town of Colfax?
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