| “ | On many a dark night people would see her walking along the riverbank and crying for her children. | „ |
| ~ La Llorona myth. |
| “ | Three children were kidnapped from their parents a few days before All Souls' Eve. All the parents said they saw a crying woman taking their children to a path down river. These innocents were found drowned on All Souls' Day, their lives lost in the river's embrace. We have to kill this evil woman. | „ |
| ~ Spanish Grimm |
La Llorona is the main antagonist of the Grimm episode, "La Llorona", based upon on the legendary creature of the same name.
She is the spirit of an unnamed woman who kidnapps and kills three children every Halloween, and is constantly seen weeping. Before her death, she was a beautiful woman who killed her own children by drowning them after her husband leaves her for a younger woman.
She was portrayed by Angela Alvarado Rosa.
History[]
Backstory[]
La Llorona
Every year on Halloween, the La Llorona would kidnap three children and drown them in the river at midnight. According to the legend she drowned her own children, and did so hoping they would take there place.
In 1519, a Spanish Grimm who had traveled with Cortes to South America, heard the legend, and went to kill her to stop her reign of murder. However he apparently failed and was killed by her, as he never wrote another entry in his dairy.
Over the the centuries, dozens of Grimms investigated her, all trying to figure out what she was, as it was clear she was no Wesen, and find a way to stop her. As such her article in the diaries, had been translated into many different languages.
Grimm[]
La Llorona's children
In 2007, she kidnapped three children in New Mexico, then moved to Texas, and then Colorado. By 2012, she arrived in Portland and began her game all over again. She kidnapped them with a sort of hypnotic song, that made them follow her, and kept them under her spell, she also had the power to move from place to place in the blink of an eye, and take an alternate form.
From examining his Grimm diaries, Nick managed to guess where she was planning to drown the children, he, Hank and another Wesen who had been the aunt of one her victims managed to arrive on the scene just in the nick of time. Nick pushed her into the river, the two began to wrestle, as she tried to pull him down, but Nick fought back and manged to seemingly strangle her, still underwater. She just simply faded away, for the first time in over 500 years, she failed to kill the children.
Powers and abilities[]
Powers[]
- Ghostly Physiology: After her death, "La Llorona" has become a ghost who wanders the Earth for all eternity. She was a very powerful spirit, among one of the most powerful non-Wesen beings to appear in the series.
- Hypnosis: La Llorona seems to have a hypnotic power over children, making them follow her.
- Shapeshifting: As a ghost, La Llorona became able to change her form from that of a beautiful woman into a decaying corpse.
- Teleportation: As a spirit, La Llorona could teleport herself over great distances with ease.
- Superhuman Strength: Like all spirits, La Llorona is a incorporeal being, able to generate great amounts of force.
Gallery[]
_04.jpg "La Llorona (Grimm) 04.jpg (71 KB)")
