colombia and brazil : two legends

by: sindy saavedra

la llorona " the weeping" COLOMBIA

First of all The story talks about a Weeping which is the soul in pain of an undressed woman of her children, for this reason is her weeping.

In some stories she appears a crazy woman who did not hold the misery, and killed her and her children too. Then the soul was walking by the towns, asking for her children and lamenting his tragedy.

“The Weeping” is in all the regions a story that identity it is a generic myth of which personifies to a spirit of a mother in pain.
It symbolizes that some parents are irresponsible and they dont see the consequences of their acts to conceive a children soon to evade their obligations, resorting to the abortion, as if the creature to come was the culprit of her errors.

EL GUARANI. " THE GUARANI" BRAZIL

The guaraní legend was a work of a jealous God, who fall in love because he meet a beautiful girl called Naipú, who lived to borders of the river.

But Naipú preferred the loves of a mortal, and she left with his lover in a canoe. The God, infuriated, produced the cataracts to stop them

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