On his way home during a stormy night, Carlos Rodarte — just a boy at the time — trekked through the mud and into the darkness alone. The boy tried to be brave but he kept hearing his uncle’s words in ...
And yet, maybe it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if critics let their readers assume a more direct connection between these wildly different visions of death. While anyone who subscribes to ...
In stories, La Llorona is depicted as a wailing woman, lamenting the drowning of her children, whether by accident or intentional. In the 2019 movie, "The Curse of La Llorona," the apparition is a ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new ballet is putting the spotlight on moms struggling with postpartum depression. Based on a legendary Mexican tale, La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, debuts Saturday at the Harris ...
Folklorists will tell you that la llorona is a ghostly figure said to be a crying mother doomed to grieve for her drowned, dead offspring in perpetuity, and it takes a while to figure out how the ...
Christopher Rodarte was raised on stories of La Llorona (the wailing woman), the legendary Latina spirit that haunts rivers throughout the Southwestern United States and Mexico. She’s eternally ...
Christopher Rodate grew up hearing ghost stories, and turned them into a book, La Llorona: Ghost Stories of the Southwest. Credit: Courtesy photo While Christopher Rodarte’s students at Sam Hughes ...
Christopher Rodarte will sign copies of his book “La Llorona: Ghost Stories of the Southwest” at two venues in Old Town on Saturday, Oct. 26. From noon-1 p.m. Rodarte will be at The Candy Lady, 424 ...
Reinterpreting the legend of the titular Weeping Woman, the Shudder title centers on Enrique Monteverde (Julio Diaz), a dictator who evades prosecution for his crimes against humanity and is ...
These ghost stories and legends are the stuff of nightmares. El Chupacabra has terrorized rural communities throughout the Americas for decades. The beast, described as resembling a small bear or ...
This post contains spoilers for the film La Llorona. The Shudder original La Llorona (not to be confused with the recent atrocious Americanized version) exemplifies what an urban legend brought to ...
Long ago, a woman named Maria married a man with whom she had two children. They lived in marital bliss until she caught him with another woman. Their relationship strained, Maria suspected her ...