as a child, (im mexican) I was always told that if la llorona saw children near her river, she’d take them in and care for them, thinking that they’re her children, but eventually she’d realize they werent and she’d murder them
I was always told that she drowned her kids and then she drowned looking for them. Either way, Mexican/Hispanic/Latino scary legends will always be worse (fear wise)
I was told kinda the same thing! That if you are awake after 1am she would come into the house and kidnap you, take care of you then realize you arent her kid and kill you.
The scariest thing for latin american children is something we all have in every country and probably still fear as adults. Is called la Chancla. They should make a movie about that
Our version in New Mexico relates to the Rio grande river and the ditches for farming. The story was mostly to keep kids from being outside after dark. We were taught that she mistakes you for her kids and takes you away forever, no specifics about ending you. And you were always safe if you were inside a house or car.
Same story in Colorado. My grandma and mom would tell us the story to make sure we were home by dark. They never said what would happen if she took you tho. I guess they wanted to leave that to our imagination lol. My uncle and a few other have claimed to have seen her one night while working at a factory, while on break and smoking outside near the Arkansas river. This was back in the 90s
La Llorona's story is an extremely tragic one, full of loss and death. her husband was to blame, as was she. La Llorona still has a sliver of humanity inside her, seeing as the moment she had with Chris. She's a spirit of sadness and grievance, as she's been searching for over 400 years for her children, and she wants them back with any method possible. The "horrible sound" that put out the candles sounded not like an angry scream, but rather a scream of longing and sadness.
Shes not a tragic figure, she was a selfish cruel woman who murdered her innocent kids, drowning someone is not a quick death and she did it twice without stopping herself. She didnt kill them out of rage, she killed them to punish her husband. And even in the after life she tries to inflict pain on other women by stealing the souls of their children
@@Neesi392 maybe it's true, maybe she does just want to inflict pain on other parents. in the original legend, La Llorona feverishly searches for the souls of her children, and will kill any child if she comes across one once she finds out it's not her child. Her husband did her wrong, and she punished him by the way she saw fit, which was definitely wrong. so yes, maybe you're correct, maybe she's evil, cruel, and selfish, or maybe not.
La loronas story is an extremely tragic one, divorce and death full of worse and death. Her husband was to blame , as was she Jesus Spirit of sadness and grief as she wants her children back
Fun fact, my family has land in mexico. It has a river/creek on the property. When i was a kid i heard this screaming crying near the river. Probably broke a land speed record running back to my granparents house. Ran literally into my grandfather, knocked me on my ass. My grandpa knelt down to check on me and asked me whats wrong. I told him that i heard la llorona. He looked all serious, and took me to the river, rifle in hand. We heard the sound i heard earlier. He started laughing. Then we went into a blind they used for hunting he told me to be quiet and we waited. The crying continued getting closer. I was about to shit and piss my self in fear. Took out my crucifix and started doing the rosary silently. The she walked around the corner. Not la llarona but a cougar. Made the same sound. My grandfather explained while la llarona was something to be afraid of, most of the time it happend to be a cougar. And as he put it "mijo, you dont want to run into either of them alone. So stay by the house unless your with me or grandma." And i did. Never went by the river again by myself.
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if another origin to the story was someone unfamiliar with the mating habits of Cougars and Bobcats and while walking around at night heard their mating shrieks and thought it was a woman crying(which technically it is, since it’s a female Cougar/Bobcat calling out to all the eligible males in the area). Hardly supernatural but doesn’t make it any less scary.
The only reason I know about La Llorona is from my babysitter when I was little. She was Mexican and told my brother and I the legend of the weeping woman. She told us that if we cried La Llorona would mistake us for her dead children and take us away. Funnily enough, I remember my babysitter being a sad young woman (she cried a lot over her boyfriend and threw up a lot when she thought we couldn't hear/weren't inside). As a child, I thought of her as La Llorona.
@@friendlyneigborhoodbean No idea. She moved back to Mexico when my brother and I went to high school. I haven't heard anything from or about her since
I was born in Mexico and know the story. You did a great job explaining it. When I was a kid, I am 100% sure I heard La Llorona. I will never forget the sound of the wails or the terror I felt. I was frozen with fear. Apparently my street used to be a stream or river that was covered up ages ago. It’s truly terrifying.
@@nivedofficial I was a kid and I remember waking up because dogs were howling and barking. I remember thinking “oh shut up” and as soon as I said that, I heard her wails. I could her that she was walking by our house and wailing “Ay mis hijos. Aaaaaaayyyyy mis hijos” We had a sliding bathroom door and it was shaking. You know how windows, doors, etc, vibrate when a car plays very loud music? That’s what it was like. I couldn’t move I was so afraid. As she walked away I was able to move and ran to my parents bed and I got in bed with them. They were completely asleep. The next morning I told them what happened and told my grandma. Apparently the street where we lived used to be a stream. And apparently other neighbors also heard her that night. That was the first and only time I heard her wails. Granted, I moved to the US like a year afterwards so. But yeah. I’ll never forget the wails or the fear. I found a YT not long ago claiming they recorded her wails. When I played it, I kid you not, I felt the same fear I felt back then. I had listened to others and had never felt that effect. It was the same tone, same wail I heard.
Most Latinamerican Countries have their own version of the legend of la llorona, or a very similar legend, in Argentina we have the legend of the Pelada de la Cañada, it can be translated as something like "The Bald Woman of the Glen"
Sort of similar, there's also the legend of La Lechuza, some kind of witch bird/owl-woman where you get warned about investigating spooky sounds or the sound of babies crying
Theres a film called Mama which I think was such a well written and inspired version of a Llorana spirit instead of just the one La Llorana that we know of, as it's the death of her baby and she seems to "adopt" the two girls that their father tried to murder, before needing to take them into death with her to be at peace.
@@LadyKuroneko13 Whether I say La Llorona (THE weeping woman) based off the mexican spirit or a Llorana (a weeping woman) which is any spirit that has acted same as the mexican spirit my comment still stands but ty.
Good breakdown. I grew up in Mexico and the version I was told (or rather taunted by my older cousins when I was a little girl) was the one where she killed her kids with a knife or puñal rather than drowning them (although the drowning version has become more popular). There was a good 60s black and white Mexican film about La Llorona that is the version where she is called Luisa. It doesn't have your modern day jump scares but it is a classic and does a better job with showing the tragedy of the villainous spirit and her victims. I wonder if La Llorona will appear in some form or another in the Conjuring movies or the other spin offs. Given that childish laughter Anna heard at the end, it could be a demon or some other kind of evil entity that was always latching on to La Llorona or she latched on to it to continue her demented hauntings. That or it is one of her victims, perhaps one of her kids who refuses to pass on to the afterlife, and like his mom, he'll wreck havoc.
I heard another - less popular - version of la llorona story from one of my Mexican friends where la llorona was like a protector (goddess or mother figure) of the Aztecs (or something like that) and she would cry “hay mis hijos” as she felt the arrival of the conquistadors basically saying like hay mis hijos (oh my children) who will protect them from such horrible fate that awaits them?? It’s a far less popular version but a favorite one in my opinion. It depicts her as a caring goddess or mother-figure instead of an evil entity.
That's an interesting take. There was a famous case of a slave mother in America who killed her children rather than have them be sold off to an abusive master. It's strange what some people call murder, others call protection.
That might be the original folk legend, which got evolved into version we know now, because there was quite literal translation of "her children". It's not unheard off, I studied Slavic literature, so we covered lot of urban legends and folklore, and it's quite common to have couple of different versions of same folk tale, because back then legends were spread from one person to another in person, as books and literacy wasn't still that common.
@@dadevishe should've escaped. A truly loving parent would look for any other way than straight up killing them even if she thought the abuse would definitely break them.
I'm from Colombia and I just want to say that in Latin America, La Llorona is also extremely popular. I used to hear it when I was younger and scared the crap out of me when I'd hear someone cry at night
My mom would say that if I keep lying la Llorona would come for me and that she takes young boys like me, and the light would flicker when I would enter the kitchen and she would say, "she's coming for you"
I never knew the background of this, but have heard and told a version of this story. I scared the crap out of my nephews with this story while camping at our local lake. I told them her spirit roamed bodies of water looking for children and that her eyes glowed green. They saw a firefly and screamed LOUD.
Me typing up work documents while listening to your commentary and not even watching the video but still thoroughly enjoying it makes me wonder if you'd be willing to make a podcast. I'd be an avid follower/subscriber for sure! Great video as always!
Coming from someone who knows little to no Spanish i only found the first 20 mins actually good especially with La llorona speaking Spanish to lure in the boy in. After that the movie dropped the ball and became a generic ghost movie with no impact. My gf is also Mexican and she said the movies was disrespectful so I'll take her word for it lol. On that note these videos are awesome and I do enjoy them
I wouldn't call it disrespectful, they aren't making fun of the culture. More not an EXCELLENT movie. Then again society breaks down good movies and nitpicks the flaws. That's what they did with this one.
I love studying different cultures legends, demons, gods etc and I loved this one a lot because it felt extremely realistic compared to others and when i saw this movie in theaters I couldn't help but laugh at how bad it was and also feel disappointed that they didn't make it as scary as they could have.
@@ForeignScammerLaIlorona reminds me of Medea in a way. She was a princess who helped Iason to steal the golden fleece from her own father and runs off with him. While fleeingshe kills her brother. She even kills a corrupt king/ Iasons uncle for him and they married and had two boys living in Exil. Where he dumps her for the local princess to gain status and prestige. She kills her husbands new father in law another king and the Bride and her two children. She was a known magician and her grandfather was God helios. Who made her leave crimescene in front of her husband, taking her sons corpses on a carriage pulled by dragons. She marries the king of Athens. Iason becomes the king of Korinth but kills himself because of grief.
I love these break downs. As a kid I was terrified of scary movies and as an adult I still am. It's the anxiety of the jump scare that gets me (im a puss I know). Watching these before the actual movie makes it easier to deal with.
Oh my god, I remember learning about La Llorona when I was a kid, when I took a Spanish class, and it gave me nightmares for days, nightmares of a ghostly woman taking me and my siblings away, and being drowned (which I think is my greatest fear). It took my father telling me that “ghosts don’t travel that far”, since I live in the Midwest, and La Llorona was too far away to care about me, for me to finally get over that fear.
"La Limpia" translated to, the cleansing." As I understand it, it uses the fetal chicken inside the egg to absorb negative/malevolent energy from a person or thing. Then you discard it away from home--preferably at a crossroads or in a public place to confuse the energy so it's less likely to find its way back to you.
La Llorona isn’t just limited to mexico and Central America, many South American countries have their own legends surrounding her, they’re all very similar and sometimes tied to specific places, parks, forests, etc.
I think after watching so many movies, tv shows, and youtube videos, at this video, I think I finally understand ghosts as a genre enough, so a big thank you CZ for that. There's a human desire in la llorona, but she's lost so much of her humanity she's just an embodiment of that desire (to have her children back) and nothing more. She thinks, is conscious, but has lost so much of herself it's almost animalistic. Very sad.
My nanny (who was Mexican) told me there are two people who are meant to be warned by La Llorona's story; children and young women. The children were warned to behave and stay away from bodies of water lest they drowned. The other people, young women, is a bit more complicated. Maria is seduced by the wealthy man and is usually unmarried. She then becomes abandoned by her wealthy lover who takes a younger and much more suitable girl as his bride, which leads to her drowning her children. Young women were supposed to take this as a warning to not listen to wealthy men who won't make them their wives.
I heard a different version from the kids I grew up with here in Texas. The way I heard it was she was poor had kids with a guy he died nobone said how anyways she met a rich guy and they would have been together but he didn't want her because she had kids so she killed them. When he found out he was horrified and wanted nothing to do with her so she drowned herself in the same river she killed her kids in.... 🤔 I guess theres many different versions of it either way interesting urban legend...
I remember the legend of La Llarona I grew up with was very different from the version in the Counjurverse. The version I was told was that she was a young widow with two children who caught the eye of a wealthy Spaniard. He began courting her and gifting her with beautiful dresses. She would frequently ask him about marriage but he would always change the subject. One day he finally told her that they couldn't be married bc she had children from another man. This devastated her and she began crying uncontrollably. She later changed into a beautiful white dress that the Spaniard had given her and had been saving for a special occasion. She then took her children to the river and stabbed them repeatedly, then let their bodies float away. After she killed her children, she went to the wealthy Spaniard's villa, told him what she did, and then asked if they could be married since she no longer had children from another man. The Spaniard was horrified by the widow's actions but even more so by her appearance. Her once pristine white dress, as well as her hands and face, were now stained with blood. The Spaniard told her that he had never intended to marry her, that she had only been useful to him while his wife was still in Spain (basically she was his mistress). He then sent her away and told her that if she ever came near his villa again, he would have her killed on sight. The widow was suddenly faced with the realization of what she had done and ran back to the river to find her children. However, the current had carried them out of sight and she began wailing for her lost children. She started traveling up and down the riverbank in search of her children and came upon a child who she thought to be one of her own. When she realized that it wasn't her child, she killed him and let the river take him away. The boy's mother saw what she did and cursed the widow to forever roam the river in search of her lost children
I'm thrilled when a new Czsworld video is uploaded, because not only are them informational and entertaining, but I can listen to them while I'm working on my game.
They're are actually old legends dating preconquest that state "la llorana" was actually a goddess who protect the land but she had a vision of her people suffering cuz of the invaders who would take over the land and that she wept for her children and their oncoming suffering hence why she calls out " ahhhyy mis hijos"
I grew up with the legend and it was used in order to get our asses inside when it got dark out. Joe Hayes the storyteller had a cassette where he told the story of La llorona and it was absolutely amazing but also terrifying
The most surprising thing for me was weeing the curandero using the egg to expell the evil. It's something my indigenous grandma used to do, and we're from Peru, she also used that for severe trauma like accidents and stuff like that and to break evil eye curses.
My latino homies used to have me spooked lol. They would tell me, "If you ever hear a lady crying outside of window at night, DO NOT LOOK or TRY TO GO AND HELP HER."
la llorona reminds me a lot of the banshee, except the banshee isn't usually malicious. when you hear her cry, it means someone you love is going to die soon, or has died. if you hear her cry or scream really close to you, she's warning you that you might die soon too. she's. an interesting lady
I thought banshees could also be malicious It’s been a really long time and I was really young when I heard this so forgive me but I thought It went If a banshee is crying at your door or window and you acknowledge her you would die
I grew up in Mexico and I have relatives that are practitioners the llorona as I was told us actually and malevolent elemental river/ water spirit. Storyline says she is the ghost of some woman who suffered great tragedy and is now vengeful which I was told is made up and enhanced over the years. The llorona is a spirit in the same category as la liebre which the dog like rabbit headed creature the John bell saw while hunting. The haunting began sometime in 1817 when John Bell witnessed the apparition of a strange creature resembling a dog. Just spirits not ghost.
14:31 Outside the movie, just for everyone's information, this is an old magician/medium/scammer's trick. Usually they'll crack the egg to reveal a wad of hair mixed in and say it's a sign of a curse or a bad omen or something. (turn back now if you don't want to know the secret.) In actuality the hair was concealed in their hand and pushed into the egg with their thumb or forefinger to make it seem like the hair was inside the egg. You can also substitute the hair with anything that is small enough to be hidden in your hand, like a dye packet, figurine, photo, etc. For something more elaborate like this, it's simple enough to carefully drill a small hole in the shell to mix something in the egg beforehand. It's a neat trick, but if someone tries to charge you money to remove an evil curse or something just walk away.
I am on a binge session with your videos at the moment and I think it has been 2 hours into it. Anyways, great work! I absolutely adore these and your voice is soooo soothing. Thank you xoxo
While i myself am whiter than a polar bear in a snow storm I grew up in a largely Hispanic area of Los Angeles. I remember hearing about this tale far back as a little kid. Still a folk legend that creeps me out to this day. I won't even say LaLlorona out loud (my childhood friends abuella told me La Llorona will find you if you say it aloud, though I think I'd be more afraid of his abuellas ghost hearing me say it xD) I was SO disappointed in the conjuring-verse adaptation of her story, though it's at least cool to see professor CZs covering the history.
Ahh sii la llorona, being being a scary tale the archetype also shows the shadow of hispanic parents. Many of us grew up with parents saying "yo te di la vida y te la puedo quitar." Or being abused and hurt by parents because they loved us and it hurt them more than it hurt us. I feel the story also touches on that and how innocent latino children pay the price for unstable unhealthy parents.
The version of the story I heard as a child La Llorona would killed cheating husbands, abusive mothers and spirits away children who stray to far form their parents at night. She isn't actively looking To hurt children but mistakes lone wandering children for her own and takes them with her to the spirit realm and is even known to cry out and worn parents about oncoming dangers.
I think the "sting of her tears" burn mark that ends up on the children I believe is mirrored after the same spot she grabbed her 2nd son after drowning the first right before he screams "mama no"
On the topic of La Lloronas' luring tactic, there's a part in the legend that says that if you hear her crying close, she's far away but if the crying seems far away, she's very close (at least it's like that in my countries version of the legend)
I remember watching a video of the legend from another channel. When I saw the trailer a few years later I was impressed that they finally did something about it at the time. When my mom and oldest sister asked how I know about it I told them about the video I mentioned.
It is a pity that this film is no longer part of the universe of The Conjuring, hopefully in the future they can resume to include it again to the franchise. :(
The name “Anna Garcia” was the name of the person we worked to figure out the manner and mechanism of death in my high school Principles of Biomedical Science class.
im from texas and la llorona is a pretty popular ghost story here. it’s very cool to hear about the story’s origin and see all the comments from children who grew up with the story too
seeing this video is kinda comforting you told the story so well. Growing up as an Mexican American i definitely heard La Leyenda de La llorona and this video had all the facts down. Remember kids be good or La llorona will come and take you
Awwww la llorona. Grew up terrified of her and feared being a pool cuz she would be able to drown me. The movie didn’t do the story much justice, but was enjoyable nonetheless.
In my mom family side, my mom was telling a story when my grandpa one time saw the La Llorona, after he saw her, he ran really fast because it scared he a lots, he said that she had a horse face and her hand were cold, also after he saw, he became shocked and stop eating, he recovered.
This legend is so freaking depressing. Even if it were true, I still can’t fathom the whole “blind rage” thing. I’ve been VERY angry and have done things I can’t take back but killing my own kids? I could never. This is one of the scariest stories I’ve ever been told as a teen. It freaks me out even more because there’s so many cases where parents kill their own kids for various reasons.
I rember a couple of years ago when i stayed with my grandparents, my grandfather (my papa) told me this story about a woman who drowned her children (the La Llorona) and how when he was younger, when he used to live in Mexico with his family, that when he and his freinds were out at night they heard a woman crying, but when they heard crying all the animals stoped making nosies. This also happend to my cousins, one time when my younger cousin went to a trip to mexico with out grandparents, both her and our grandma (our nana) heard crying at night and then all the animals stoped making noises.
Czsworld I’m so glad you made this and I have a story of how I saw her and I survived from her when I was a little girl. I was visiting my family with my mom’s side.
My grandma use to tell us that la llorona was a really beautiful women . She fell in love with the king But the king only used her to have the kids that the queen could not have . So in a fit of rage she drowned the kids that way the king could not take them from her . She took her life and now she roams in the rivers at nite weeping and looking for her children . My grandma would always try to scare us with her legend . I remember 2 times my grandma waking up scared saying she had heard her .
as a child, (im mexican) I was always told that if la llorona saw children near her river, she’d take them in and care for them, thinking that they’re her children, but eventually she’d realize they werent and she’d murder them
I was in a Hispanic foster family as a teen. I heard a similar tale as well as the horror of the “La Chancla”
I was always told that she drowned her kids and then she drowned looking for them. Either way, Mexican/Hispanic/Latino scary legends will always be worse (fear wise)
I was told kinda the same thing! That if you are awake after 1am she would come into the house and kidnap you, take care of you then realize you arent her kid and kill you.
@@shiro_kitten9298 SCARIEST HORROR STORY 10/10
Same bro 💀
She took the phrase “I brought you into this world and I can take you out” to another level
@Walter I know how you feel Walt
Sounds like every Latin American mother
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@@Rossoneri2 for real 😅
Yup.
The scariest thing for latin american children is something we all have in every country and probably still fear as adults. Is called la Chancla. They should make a movie about that
lmao😂 I'm not Latino but i definitely know what you're talking about
Countless pants were stained with piss at the mention of such name.
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We Asians are also scared of the power of the flip flop. Maximum damage
Lmao
Our version in New Mexico relates to the Rio grande river and the ditches for farming. The story was mostly to keep kids from being outside after dark. We were taught that she mistakes you for her kids and takes you away forever, no specifics about ending you. And you were always safe if you were inside a house or car.
The movie is terrible by the way
It’s good
@@DrBeauHightower ye true
Same story in Colorado. My grandma and mom would tell us the story to make sure we were home by dark. They never said what would happen if she took you tho. I guess they wanted to leave that to our imagination lol. My uncle and a few other have claimed to have seen her one night while working at a factory, while on break and smoking outside near the Arkansas river. This was back in the 90s
The movie sucked
La Llorona's story is an extremely tragic one, full of loss and death. her husband was to blame, as was she.
La Llorona still has a sliver of humanity inside her, seeing as the moment she had with Chris.
She's a spirit of sadness and grievance, as she's been searching for over 400 years for her children, and she wants them back with any method possible. The "horrible sound" that put out the candles sounded not like an angry scream, but rather a scream of longing and sadness.
NOT REAL PEOPLE.
@@Darth-Claw-Killflex duh…
Shes not a tragic figure, she was a selfish cruel woman who murdered her innocent kids, drowning someone is not a quick death and she did it twice without stopping herself.
She didnt kill them out of rage, she killed them to punish her husband. And even in the after life she tries to inflict pain on other women by stealing the souls of their children
@@Neesi392 maybe it's true, maybe she does just want to inflict pain on other parents. in the original legend, La Llorona feverishly searches for the souls of her children, and will kill any child if she comes across one once she finds out it's not her child. Her husband did her wrong, and she punished him by the way she saw fit, which was definitely wrong. so yes, maybe you're correct, maybe she's evil, cruel, and selfish, or maybe not.
La loronas story is an extremely tragic one, divorce and death full of worse and death. Her husband was to blame , as was she Jesus Spirit of sadness and grief as she wants her children back
Fun fact, my family has land in mexico. It has a river/creek on the property. When i was a kid i heard this screaming crying near the river. Probably broke a land speed record running back to my granparents house. Ran literally into my grandfather, knocked me on my ass. My grandpa knelt down to check on me and asked me whats wrong. I told him that i heard la llorona. He looked all serious, and took me to the river, rifle in hand. We heard the sound i heard earlier. He started laughing. Then we went into a blind they used for hunting he told me to be quiet and we waited. The crying continued getting closer. I was about to shit and piss my self in fear. Took out my crucifix and started doing the rosary silently. The she walked around the corner. Not la llarona but a cougar. Made the same sound. My grandfather explained while la llarona was something to be afraid of, most of the time it happend to be a cougar. And as he put it "mijo, you dont want to run into either of them alone. So stay by the house unless your with me or grandma." And i did. Never went by the river again by myself.
That's a good story homie, makes me wish I had a story to trade
La llorona would probably qualify as a cougar in certain circles 😂
@@Geraldo_Rivianthat’s a good one
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if another origin to the story was someone unfamiliar with the mating habits of Cougars and Bobcats and while walking around at night heard their mating shrieks and thought it was a woman crying(which technically it is, since it’s a female Cougar/Bobcat calling out to all the eligible males in the area). Hardly supernatural but doesn’t make it any less scary.
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The only reason I know about La Llorona is from my babysitter when I was little. She was Mexican and told my brother and I the legend of the weeping woman. She told us that if we cried La Llorona would mistake us for her dead children and take us away. Funnily enough, I remember my babysitter being a sad young woman (she cried a lot over her boyfriend and threw up a lot when she thought we couldn't hear/weren't inside). As a child, I thought of her as La Llorona.
Damn. Is she ok
@@friendlyneigborhoodbean No idea. She moved back to Mexico when my brother and I went to high school. I haven't heard anything from or about her since
why would she tell such a horrifying tale to kids omg
@@sobersuds that’s how Hispanic families get the kids to behave 😂 it’s always the most horrifying story ever - signed, a Hispanic person
@@nikoaugustine5415 THATS SO TRUE LOL!
I was born in Mexico and know the story. You did a great job explaining it. When I was a kid, I am 100% sure I heard La Llorona. I will never forget the sound of the wails or the terror I felt. I was frozen with fear. Apparently my street used to be a stream or river that was covered up ages ago. It’s truly terrifying.
you heard the sound of la llorona??
@@nivedofficial Yeah, it’ll forever be etched in my brain.
@@Bandido_50 how did you hear...like whats the story ??? i thought these stories were all myths
@@nivedofficial I was a kid and I remember waking up because dogs were howling and barking. I remember thinking “oh shut up” and as soon as I said that, I heard her wails. I could her that she was walking by our house and wailing “Ay mis hijos. Aaaaaaayyyyy mis hijos” We had a sliding bathroom door and it was shaking. You know how windows, doors, etc, vibrate when a car plays very loud music? That’s what it was like. I couldn’t move I was so afraid. As she walked away I was able to move and ran to my parents bed and I got in bed with them. They were completely asleep. The next morning I told them what happened and told my grandma. Apparently the street where we lived used to be a stream. And apparently other neighbors also heard her that night. That was the first and only time I heard her wails. Granted, I moved to the US like a year afterwards so. But yeah. I’ll never forget the wails or the fear. I found a YT not long ago claiming they recorded her wails. When I played it, I kid you not, I felt the same fear I felt back then. I had listened to others and had never felt that effect. It was the same tone, same wail I heard.
@@Bandido_50 whoa...thats creepy af😂anyway u damn lucky u still alive
Most Latinamerican Countries have their own version of the legend of la llorona, or a very similar legend, in Argentina we have the legend of the Pelada de la Cañada, it can be translated as something like "The Bald Woman of the Glen"
I'd have to disagree, I lived in Honduras and the only thing they ever brought up was a person who turned into a monkey by a witch
Sort of similar, there's also the legend of La Lechuza, some kind of witch bird/owl-woman where you get warned about investigating spooky sounds or the sound of babies crying
La llorona predates colonization in Mexico as detailed by Mexica people.
The bald of the Canada 😝😂
in Egypt there is a legend of the bride of the nile she does la lorna except she addas powerfull men born in privelage to her list.
Theres a film called Mama which I think was such a well written and inspired version of a Llorana spirit instead of just the one La Llorana that we know of, as it's the death of her baby and she seems to "adopt" the two girls that their father tried to murder, before needing to take them into death with her to be at peace.
La Llorona*
@@LadyKuroneko13 Whether I say La Llorona (THE weeping woman) based off the mexican spirit or a Llorana (a weeping woman) which is any spirit that has acted same as the mexican spirit my comment still stands but ty.
Good breakdown. I grew up in Mexico and the version I was told (or rather taunted by my older cousins when I was a little girl) was the one where she killed her kids with a knife or puñal rather than drowning them (although the drowning version has become more popular). There was a good 60s black and white Mexican film about La Llorona that is the version where she is called Luisa. It doesn't have your modern day jump scares but it is a classic and does a better job with showing the tragedy of the villainous spirit and her victims.
I wonder if La Llorona will appear in some form or another in the Conjuring movies or the other spin offs. Given that childish laughter Anna heard at the end, it could be a demon or some other kind of evil entity that was always latching on to La Llorona or she latched on to it to continue her demented hauntings. That or it is one of her victims, perhaps one of her kids who refuses to pass on to the afterlife, and like his mom, he'll wreck havoc.
Same here. Was she a widow who was jilted by her lover in the version you grew up with?
I heard another - less popular - version of la llorona story from one of my Mexican friends where la llorona was like a protector (goddess or mother figure) of the Aztecs (or something like that) and she would cry “hay mis hijos” as she felt the arrival of the conquistadors basically saying like hay mis hijos (oh my children) who will protect them from such horrible fate that awaits them?? It’s a far less popular version but a favorite one in my opinion. It depicts her as a caring goddess or mother-figure instead of an evil entity.
That's an interesting take. There was a famous case of a slave mother in America who killed her children rather than have them be sold off to an abusive master. It's strange what some people call murder, others call protection.
That might be the original folk legend, which got evolved into version we know now, because there was quite literal translation of "her children". It's not unheard off, I studied Slavic literature, so we covered lot of urban legends and folklore, and it's quite common to have couple of different versions of same folk tale, because back then legends were spread from one person to another in person, as books and literacy wasn't still that common.
Well i think its less popular because the aztecs never spoke spanish in the first place only nahuatl
@@dadevishe should've escaped. A truly loving parent would look for any other way than straight up killing them even if she thought the abuse would definitely break them.
Yeah that story is fake
La Llorona really scared me as kid and to this day she still scares me
I don’t get scared easy 😂 but I get it tho
Same 😭 especially cause my mom always told me she would come all the way from Mexico just to take my brothers and I if we misbehaved.
@@marielamedrano432 It was worse for me because I lived next to a big river with my grandma 😭
@@sivi907 nooooooo
I'm from Colombia and I just want to say that in Latin America, La Llorona is also extremely popular. I used to hear it when I was younger and scared the crap out of me when I'd hear someone cry at night
Growing up my mom would threaten me with La Llorona whenever i would disobey and i would be scared since i lived near a river growing up
My mom would say that if I keep lying la Llorona would come for me and that she takes young boys like me, and the light would flicker when I would enter the kitchen and she would say, "she's coming for you"
Damn I feel bad for you guys
Yeh my mum would say if I was caught out late the La Llorona would drown me or scream in my face.
That is unfortunate
My mom told me about la llorona but never threatened me with her. Regardless I was still scared shitless
Tuco went from fighting heisenberg to fighting la llorona
Man said "f@#k meth im gonna kill some ghosts"
Man is really tight doing it
Technically he was already fighting vampires before that, he was in From Dusk Till Dawn 2. Oh and he's one of the merc gang members in Alien 4.
@@J.J.Jameson_of_Daily_BugleHe was a marine in Alien 4, started out more as a hostage, but ended up a part of the group dynamic.
I knew he looked familiar, damn.
These videos are both comforting and terrifying. Always well put together! Thank you for sharing your hard work 💙
Thanks Renee!
@@CZsWorld eh
@@CZsWorld is la llorona real or just a urban legend
@@mehchocolate1257urban legend since like cz said in the video, there is no records proving that she did exsit
I never knew the background of this, but have heard and told a version of this story. I scared the crap out of my nephews with this story while camping at our local lake. I told them her spirit roamed bodies of water looking for children and that her eyes glowed green. They saw a firefly and screamed LOUD.
This is the only educational channel I would watch all day.
I feel like most of the channels I watch these days are entertainment with a touch of education.
Me typing up work documents while listening to your commentary and not even watching the video but still thoroughly enjoying it makes me wonder if you'd be willing to make a podcast. I'd be an avid follower/subscriber for sure! Great video as always!
Coming from someone who knows little to no Spanish i only found the first 20 mins actually good especially with La llorona speaking Spanish to lure in the boy in. After that the movie dropped the ball and became a generic ghost movie with no impact. My gf is also Mexican and she said the movies was disrespectful so I'll take her word for it lol. On that note these videos are awesome and I do enjoy them
I wouldn't call it disrespectful, they aren't making fun of the culture. More not an EXCELLENT movie. Then again society breaks down good movies and nitpicks the flaws. That's what they did with this one.
Indeed the film after 20minutes is pure trash. Especially, with the wrong pronouncing in the film and by CZ.
The pronunciation is argued
The double L can even be used to make a J sound or Y sound
I love studying different cultures legends, demons, gods etc and I loved this one a lot because it felt extremely realistic compared to others and when i saw this movie in theaters I couldn't help but laugh at how bad it was and also feel disappointed that they didn't make it as scary as they could have.
La llorona dates back to pre-colonial Mexico, specifically to the Mexica people. The modern day story is a bastardized version.
@@ForeignScammeryes, we also watched the video.
@@ForeignScammerLaIlorona reminds me of Medea in a way. She was a princess who helped Iason to steal the golden fleece from her own father and runs off with him. While fleeingshe kills her brother. She even kills a corrupt king/ Iasons uncle for him and they married and had two boys living in Exil. Where he dumps her for the local princess to gain status and prestige. She kills her husbands new father in law another king and the Bride and her two children. She was a known magician and her grandfather was God helios. Who made her leave crimescene in front of her husband, taking her sons corpses on a carriage pulled by dragons. She marries the king of Athens. Iason becomes the king of Korinth but kills himself because of grief.
I love these break downs. As a kid I was terrified of scary movies and as an adult I still am. It's the anxiety of the jump scare that gets me (im a puss I know). Watching these before the actual movie makes it easier to deal with.
Same here!
You don’t have to watch horror movies, if they scare you that much just watch something else
@@maddieb.4282 thx for the wise words. I didn't know that was another option.
I am so happy that CZ finally hit 1 mill subs i felt like it was way overdue congrats one of the best horror channels to ever exist.
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After a long shitty day I genuinely smiled when I saw this was up. Always amazing videos, love the timeline stuff. Good work sir
I hope you have a better day tomorrow.😊
@@Hessed3712 thank you my dude. Nice to see some positivity on here. Hope you have a good weekend as well my friend!
Oh my god, I remember learning about La Llorona when I was a kid, when I took a Spanish class, and it gave me nightmares for days, nightmares of a ghostly woman taking me and my siblings away, and being drowned (which I think is my greatest fear). It took my father telling me that “ghosts don’t travel that far”, since I live in the Midwest, and La Llorona was too far away to care about me, for me to finally get over that fear.
"La Limpia" translated to, the cleansing." As I understand it, it uses the fetal chicken inside the egg to absorb negative/malevolent energy from a person or thing. Then you discard it away from home--preferably at a crossroads or in a public place to confuse the energy so it's less likely to find its way back to you.
La Llorona isn’t just limited to mexico and Central America, many South American countries have their own legends surrounding her, they’re all very similar and sometimes tied to specific places, parks, forests, etc.
I think after watching so many movies, tv shows, and youtube videos, at this video, I think I finally understand ghosts as a genre enough, so a big thank you CZ for that. There's a human desire in la llorona, but she's lost so much of her humanity she's just an embodiment of that desire (to have her children back) and nothing more. She thinks, is conscious, but has lost so much of herself it's almost animalistic. Very sad.
My nanny (who was Mexican) told me there are two people who are meant to be warned by La Llorona's story; children and young women. The children were warned to behave and stay away from bodies of water lest they drowned. The other people, young women, is a bit more complicated. Maria is seduced by the wealthy man and is usually unmarried. She then becomes abandoned by her wealthy lover who takes a younger and much more suitable girl as his bride, which leads to her drowning her children. Young women were supposed to take this as a warning to not listen to wealthy men who won't make them their wives.
Most urban legends are
🎉❤Best explanation ever
I heard a different version from the kids I grew up with here in Texas. The way I heard it was she was poor had kids with a guy he died nobone said how anyways she met a rich guy and they would have been together but he didn't want her because she had kids so she killed them. When he found out he was horrified and wanted nothing to do with her so she drowned herself in the same river she killed her kids in....
🤔 I guess theres many different versions of it either way interesting urban legend...
Ive heard this one too! There’s so many
Yeah this is the version my cousins told me as a kid in Durango
Same one I grew up with except it turns out that the rich guy was actually married and only used the kids as an excuse
I remember the legend of La Llarona I grew up with was very different from the version in the Counjurverse. The version I was told was that she was a young widow with two children who caught the eye of a wealthy Spaniard. He began courting her and gifting her with beautiful dresses. She would frequently ask him about marriage but he would always change the subject. One day he finally told her that they couldn't be married bc she had children from another man. This devastated her and she began crying uncontrollably. She later changed into a beautiful white dress that the Spaniard had given her and had been saving for a special occasion. She then took her children to the river and stabbed them repeatedly, then let their bodies float away. After she killed her children, she went to the wealthy Spaniard's villa, told him what she did, and then asked if they could be married since she no longer had children from another man. The Spaniard was horrified by the widow's actions but even more so by her appearance. Her once pristine white dress, as well as her hands and face, were now stained with blood. The Spaniard told her that he had never intended to marry her, that she had only been useful to him while his wife was still in Spain (basically she was his mistress). He then sent her away and told her that if she ever came near his villa again, he would have her killed on sight. The widow was suddenly faced with the realization of what she had done and ran back to the river to find her children. However, the current had carried them out of sight and she began wailing for her lost children. She started traveling up and down the riverbank in search of her children and came upon a child who she thought to be one of her own. When she realized that it wasn't her child, she killed him and let the river take him away. The boy's mother saw what she did and cursed the widow to forever roam the river in search of her lost children
Damn why did she need to kill the other child? She is for the streets
Damn that’s crazy
@@middleeasternforhire8985 "She is for the streets" 🤣🤣
@@anotherbrickinthewall001 she is for the swamps
@@middleeasternforhire8985 Nicely adjusted "She is for the streets" according to context. Well done, my Einstein! 🤣🤣
I'm thrilled when a new Czsworld video is uploaded, because not only are them informational and entertaining, but I can listen to them while I'm working on my game.
What a Timing! Writing my Bachelor thesis about the meaning of the legends in the Conjuverse and doing a cross cultural comparison...thank you!!!!!!
They're are actually old legends dating preconquest that state "la llorana" was actually a goddess who protect the land but she had a vision of her people suffering cuz of the invaders who would take over the land and that she wept for her children and their oncoming suffering hence why she calls out " ahhhyy mis hijos"
I grew up with the legend and it was used in order to get our asses inside when it got dark out. Joe Hayes the storyteller had a cassette where he told the story of La llorona and it was absolutely amazing but also terrifying
Your videos are so good you deserve more subscribers
Thanks for the support Reaper!
@@CZsWorld np
The most surprising thing for me was weeing the curandero using the egg to expell the evil. It's something my indigenous grandma used to do, and we're from Peru, she also used that for severe trauma like accidents and stuff like that and to break evil eye curses.
Whenever you post I stop whatever I'm doing and watch your video, have a great day ❤️❤️
The story is iconic in Mexico. Many parents use this to scare their kids into not staying out at night. Its either La Llorona or El Cucui
Or la chupacabra
I liked both of those stories. I heard about them from snarled
My latino homies used to have me spooked lol.
They would tell me, "If you ever hear a lady crying outside of window at night, DO NOT LOOK or TRY TO GO AND HELP HER."
Tuco Salamanca Rolling eggs across random surfaces must be the funniest thing I’ve seen today
la llorona reminds me a lot of the banshee, except the banshee isn't usually malicious. when you hear her cry, it means someone you love is going to die soon, or has died. if you hear her cry or scream really close to you, she's warning you that you might die soon too. she's. an interesting lady
I thought banshees could also be malicious
It’s been a really long time and I was really young when I heard this so forgive me but
I thought It went
If a banshee is crying at your door or window and you acknowledge her you would die
I grew up in Mexico and I have relatives that are practitioners the llorona as I was told us actually and malevolent elemental river/ water spirit. Storyline says she is the ghost of some woman who suffered great tragedy and is now vengeful which I was told is made up and enhanced over the years. The llorona is a spirit in the same category as la liebre which the dog like rabbit headed creature the John bell saw while hunting. The haunting began sometime in 1817 when John Bell witnessed the apparition of a strange creature resembling a dog. Just spirits not ghost.
I love these characters history vids💜
14:31 Outside the movie, just for everyone's information, this is an old magician/medium/scammer's trick. Usually they'll crack the egg to reveal a wad of hair mixed in and say it's a sign of a curse or a bad omen or something. (turn back now if you don't want to know the secret.)
In actuality the hair was concealed in their hand and pushed into the egg with their thumb or forefinger to make it seem like the hair was inside the egg. You can also substitute the hair with anything that is small enough to be hidden in your hand, like a dye packet, figurine, photo, etc.
For something more elaborate like this, it's simple enough to carefully drill a small hole in the shell to mix something in the egg beforehand. It's a neat trick, but if someone tries to charge you money to remove an evil curse or something just walk away.
This movie was so hilariously not scary. But yet I still watched it. And I’m watching this. Why do I do this
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@@CZsWorld love the channel. Your style and perception are dope. Do a small review of stranger things master of puppets bit would ya? Metal!!!
Hi
I am on a binge session with your videos at the moment and I think it has been 2 hours into it. Anyways, great work! I absolutely adore these and your voice is soooo soothing. Thank you xoxo
This was a fantastic video. Great job man. La Llorona is and always will be my favorite Latin American horror tale.👍👍👍
Erm I believe the weird your looking for is Latinx
No it’s Latin
The Tom and Jerry laugh/scream was gold at 18:47
While i myself am whiter than a polar bear in a snow storm I grew up in a largely Hispanic area of Los Angeles. I remember hearing about this tale far back as a little kid. Still a folk legend that creeps me out to this day. I won't even say LaLlorona out loud (my childhood friends abuella told me La Llorona will find you if you say it aloud, though I think I'd be more afraid of his abuellas ghost hearing me say it xD)
I was SO disappointed in the conjuring-verse adaptation of her story, though it's at least cool to see professor CZs covering the history.
Ahh sii la llorona, being being a scary tale the archetype also shows the shadow of hispanic parents. Many of us grew up with parents saying "yo te di la vida y te la puedo quitar." Or being abused and hurt by parents because they loved us and it hurt them more than it hurt us. I feel the story also touches on that and how innocent latino children pay the price for unstable unhealthy parents.
That instability crosses generations and walks the world
I love your videos so much!!!
Thanks Blue Fire!
Also love the Tom & Jerry scream you added @ 18:47. 😂
I love the Film Theory reference 😂
MatPat is a 👑
The version of the story I heard as a child La Llorona would killed cheating husbands, abusive mothers and spirits away children who stray to far form their parents at night. She isn't actively looking To hurt children but mistakes lone wandering children for her own and takes them with her to the spirit realm and is even known to cry out and worn parents about oncoming dangers.
I think the "sting of her tears" burn mark that ends up on the children I believe is mirrored after the same spot she grabbed her 2nd son after drowning the first right before he screams "mama no"
On the topic of La Lloronas' luring tactic, there's a part in the legend that says that if you hear her crying close, she's far away but if the crying seems far away, she's very close (at least it's like that in my countries version of the legend)
Great job another video zac.❤️👍 The la Llorna legend really scared me as a child.
Thanks Peter!
The "That's just a theory, A Flim Theo..." HAD ME ROLLING ON THE FLOOR, Best Easteregg Ever!!!
I remember watching a video of the legend from another channel. When I saw the trailer a few years later I was impressed that they finally did something about it at the time. When my mom and oldest sister asked how I know about it I told them about the video I mentioned.
Was it Snarled by any chance
@@charadreemurr4839 Yes
6:16 that caught me sooo of guard 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love the video but a correction 14:17 it’s called La Limpia, which means a clean (like to clean or get rid off bad vibes or spirits)
Most underrated horror recorder on this platform
It is a pity that this film is no longer part of the universe of The Conjuring, hopefully in the future they can resume to include it again to the franchise. :(
The Priest in La Llarona is the same one from Annabelle so I refuse to accept they aren’t connected 😂
Omg bro, this video is perfect, the edition, the voice, is fantastic 🤍🍪
La Llorona was my boogeyman growing up. I was terrified of her
Looking at the comments, it looks like you're not alone.
I loved this!! Such a fascinating legend.
The name “Anna Garcia” was the name of the person we worked to figure out the manner and mechanism of death in my high school Principles of Biomedical Science class.
Whoa. My high school just had like math and history and stuff.
I laughed sm when you said 'that's just a theory a film theory' bc I love you and matt sm 😂
Thank you for making this video You're amazing ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you! I was hoping for at least four stars though.
You're welcome 😄😃
oh sorry About the stars Here you go ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😇🏅
im from texas and la llorona is a pretty popular ghost story here. it’s very cool to hear about the story’s origin and see all the comments from children who grew up with the story too
The scariest thing about this movie isn't the Weeping Woman. It's the fact that Tuco Salamanca is hiding in plain sight.
Now thats the real monster right there!
I was searching for this comment.
seeing this video is kinda comforting you told the story so well. Growing up as an Mexican American i definitely heard La Leyenda de La llorona and this video had all the facts down. Remember kids be good or La llorona will come and take you
would love to see a video on the paranormal activity demon, great video as always
Damn. You just gained a new subscriber. I was just looking up the story of La Llorona. Thank you
My mexican grandmother would always tell me story’s about her and it scared me as a child
I'm kind of envious of that!
So glad to have come across this channel! Binge watching 😅
No ghost could stand a chance against Tuco Salamaca
The story of La Llorana is actually a tear dropping story
I never knew Tuco Salamanca, was a part-time demon hunter when not running his illegal drug business.
Im really glad Tuco managed to survive his shooting by Hank and change his ways to become a medium
Awwww la llorona. Grew up terrified of her and feared being a pool cuz she would be able to drown me. The movie didn’t do the story much justice, but was enjoyable nonetheless.
You deserve more subscribers…..your content is well-researched
can you do videos on horror games? Horror games seem to be more plentiful so it would be cool to see you do more videos on them
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@twizzm yes
No.
@@MrRAGE-md5rj yes
La Llorona terrifies me even though I only recently learned it cause I find banshees terrifying
In my mom family side, my mom was telling a story when my grandpa one time saw the La Llorona, after he saw her, he ran really fast because it scared he a lots, he said that she had a horse face and her hand were cold, also after he saw, he became shocked and stop eating, he recovered.
He was in the Street alone in Mexico
been waiting on the film theory and cz world colab forever i cant wait til the day that happens
😂😂 I don’t think it was a good idea to cast Mr Salamanca as Rafael I’d expect him to go crazy at every second 😂
He’ll sniff a line and get hyped and angry😂
@@spookyskeletons727 that’s exactly what I pictured
Seeing Tuco as a healer was funny 😂
Amazing !! Idk why I love to hear horror stories even though I'm scared of them...🤣
I never knew that la llarona was from the conjuring universe! I’m going to watch it now
Please make a horror history video about "The Backrooms"
I love your tie. Looks like the carpet from the Shinning
This legend is so freaking depressing. Even if it were true, I still can’t fathom the whole “blind rage” thing. I’ve been VERY angry and have done things I can’t take back but killing my own kids? I could never. This is one of the scariest stories I’ve ever been told as a teen. It freaks me out even more because there’s so many cases where parents kill their own kids for various reasons.
It has happen but after some women give birth, they become so depressed they kill their kids.
I rember a couple of years ago when i stayed with my grandparents, my grandfather (my papa) told me this story about a woman who drowned her children (the La Llorona) and how when he was younger, when he used to live in Mexico with his family, that when he and his freinds were out at night they heard a woman crying, but when they heard crying all the animals stoped making nosies. This also happend to my cousins, one time when my younger cousin went to a trip to mexico with out grandparents, both her and our grandma (our nana) heard crying at night and then all the animals stoped making noises.
Czsworld I’m so glad you made this and I have a story of how I saw her and I survived from her when I was a little girl. I was visiting my family with my mom’s side.
Please tell me I really am curious
@@charadreemurr4839 if u hav Snapchat or facebook like massager. I'll tell u my story
Brooo, she has always been my worst fear as a kid and here I am watching this at 3a bloody m!
My grandma use to tell us that la llorona was a really beautiful women . She fell in love with the king But the king only used her to have the kids that the queen could not have . So in a fit of rage she drowned the kids that way the king could not take them from her . She took her life and now she roams in the rivers at nite weeping and looking for her children . My grandma would always try to scare us with her legend . I remember 2 times my grandma waking up scared saying she had heard her .
Finally you posted again yessss!!!!!!!