New Mexican Llorona La Llorona... -Exercises initiative--walks and acts alone -Wears moccosins (chopos) -Bilocates--is seen in two places in one time element -Hides her face -Appears and walks at night -Dresses in black with a tapalo (shawl) She is the epitome of Indo-Spanish women once forced out of a pueblo because of old age, or forced out of a village owing to suspected involvement of sorcery. [In Santa Fe and north of Santa Fe during colonial times] La Llorona is the young Ana (our Anne Frank)--Caravajal burned alive in the Mexican Inquisition whose eyes were covered as she cried and screamed for the remaining Jewish (Sephardic) children. [During the Mexican Inquisition in 1596 Doña Francesca Rodriguez Caravajal was burned at the stake with her three daughters and one son.]

Submitted by: Emma Moya Writer & Historian Copyright October 19, 2000