Plaza de la Constitución (La Llorona)

Ciudad de México · Mexiko · Urban site

In the 1500s the city's residents were woken by a white-clad woman shrieking 'My children!' across the Plaza Mayor - La Llorona's first haunt.

Mexico's most famous ghost, the weeping woman La Llorona, originally belonged to the capital's old centre. Colonial accounts describe how, in the mid-1500s, residents were woken at night by the heart-rending wails of a woman in a white dress and veil, who walked the streets and fell to her knees on the Plaza Mayor, facing east, before dissolving into the dark. The legend is tied to the Aztec goddess Cihuacóatl, whose weeping for her children was said to foretell the empire's fall. The cries reportedly echoed across the square into the 1600s - and La Llorona has haunted waterways and alleys across Latin America ever since.

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