| “ | Oh, my children! | „ |
| ~ La Llorona's famous line. |
| “ | I spend many nights following La Llorona, and her steps always follow the same route; towards the heart of chinamperio. Every night he comes to the same place, to the old sunken church. The mother who does not see her children can not see the light. His gaze is cold and he stabs you in the soul, but he does not see. Under the bell tower, Yolzin, it has to do. How many more children are needed to soothe this mother's pain? | „ |
| ~ Father Telló on La Llorona. |
Yoltzin, better known as La Llorona, is the titular main antagonist of the 2011 animated film La Leyenda de la Llorona, the second installment of Las Leyendas film series.
Though she was based on legendary ghost of the same name, she had more symphathetic backstory, as she lost her children in an accident rather than killing them herself, and her kidnappings on children stemmed from her wish to reunite with their souls and find peace that she lost.
She was voiced by Mercedes Hernandez in her human form and by Rocío Lara in her ghost form.
Appearance[]
As Yoltzin, like those of her lands, she was an Indian pre-Hispanic woman with dark skin, brown hair that reached to her waist, long nose, blush cheeks, brown eyes and red lips. Likewise, he came with a white garment tied with a brown ribbon, with long sleeves and bronze rings.
La Llorona screaming in rage.
As La Llorona, she is almost the same as she was in life, except that her hair turned cadet blue, her skin changed to a pale azure, and in her face wrinkled. Her legs completely disappear when he moves, floating through the air and a bright glow goes through her body. When she gets mad, her eyes redden, and below, black marks go down to her chin.
Personality[]
A hard worker and single mother, Yoltzin was very kind, generous and caring. She loved her children more than the world and cared deeply for the fellow citizens of Xochimilco, who in turn loved her. She was a humble woman, Yoltzin worked at a Chinampa, cultivating flowers to sell and made a small living. She earned enough money to support her children. However, Yoltzin lost her children when they drowned in the lake as she was putting out a house fire. In her unbearable grief, Yoltzin slowly turned into an evil spirit, she became La Llorona. A ghost who kidnaps children to make up for what she had lost.
Llorona screaming in Leo's face.
La Llorona's personality is two fold. On one hand, she was gentle and caring, but also vicious, cruel, violent, murderous and even diabolical. To the children she kidnapped, she cared for as if they were her own, gently lulling them to sleep and refusing to hurt them. She gently pat their heads as they slept in a motherly fashion. However, to those who confront her, Llorona will viciously and angerly attack them, attempting to suck away their lifeforce or cursing them with the "Mark of Llorona", damning them to a slow death. Llorona can be very brutish in the way she deals with those against her, brutally beating Leo San Juan to the brink of death, smashing him through stones, the ground and flew him beyond the clouds as punishment.
Biography[]
| “ | It is said that La Llorona is the same Yoltzin who travels Xochimilco in search of her lost sons, taking revenge on children who are not her, and who could never find the peace that she longs for. | „ |
| ~ Rosa narrating about the origin of La Llorona. |
Background[]
Decades ago, Yoltzin was used to be a honest and hardworking mother who lived with her children Tonatiuh and Ollin. Everyone in Xochimilco loved her thanks to her generosity and kindness. It's also known that she sells flowers that she cultivated in her chinampa to support her family.
But one day, a tragedy struck where when she and her children went home to find their house on fire. Yoltzin jumped off the boat, desperate to save the house, but forgot her kids on the boat, which drifted away with them still on board. When she realized that it was too late and they disappeared without a trace. Villagers helped her searching for the kids. Days later, though, Ollin and Tonatiuh were found dead near a channel due to starvation. Yoltzin didn't accept her children's death, and is maddened with grief and remorse for their untimely death. Yoltzin's unbearable depression eventually stripped her from her will to move on and survive, contributing her later death.
Yoltzin's grief however, take a toll on her fractured soul that she unable to enter the afterlife: The villagers started to hear her ghostly moans. Yoltzin had become La Llorona, a specter who came out at night to kidnap children, though with no intent to harm them; rather, she seemed to want to take care of them, maybe to make up for failing to take care of her own children. But nevertheless, her actions attract Father Godofredo's attention to sent Leo San Juan and his supernatural co. to stop her.
La Leyenda de la Nahuala[]
Leo and his friends, after the defeat of the evil witch, Nahuala, just for the Day of the Dead receive the visit of the ghost of Friar Godofredo, to warn him about a mission to stop the weeping wing that terrifies Xochimilco. At that moment leave immediately to the aerostatic balloon of the friar, undertaking the journey immediately and before the credits we hear the trembling cry of La Llorona.
La Leyenda De La Llorona[]
| “ | How can peace find a mother who loses her children? Can you imagine the pain and anger that it suffers? | „ |
| ~ Don Andrés understanding La Llorona's disastrous situation. |
Present Day[]
Leo reading what Telló wrote about the monster.
Leo, whom accidently separated by his friends and saved by Kika and her mother, learned La Llorona's painful past as human prior to her children's demise. Her unbearable sorrow and madness by the grief anchored her soul to the land of the living, and the said sorrow and madness drove her to constantly kidnapped children she encountered to make up of her loss and killed anyone who stood on her path. Now knows what to do, Leo set out to find Tonatiuh and Ollin's graves that missing as result of the flood in hopes to reunites their soul with her mother.
| “ | How much love and sweetness can become hate and darkness? | „ |
| ~ Father Telló on La Llorona. |
Before embarking on her search Rosa gives Leo a diary with notes written by Father Telló, a village priest who investigated the activity of the wraith, among other events that led him out of coclusion. Although for strange reasons, it disappeared in an exploration, without knowing anything of it for days (it is presumed that La Llorona would have liquidated him). Fortunately in the writings, would have enough key information to confront the creature.
When searching for their graves, Kika unexpectedly comes along against her mother and his wishes because she wanted to find her brother Beto, the latest victim, from La Llorona. Just then, the heard La Llorona's anguish wailing and realizes that the wandering spirit was nearby. Unfortunately, La Llorona snatched Kika away.
Yoltzin hugging her sons in the redeeming herself from all her ills.
The Rescue[]
| “ | At the bottom of the sunken church Yoltzin find the peace. Under the bell tower Yoltzin has to do | „ |
| ~ Father Telló on La Llorona. |
With aid of his allies who showed up later, and a ghost girl named Teodora whom he met in events of previous film, they found where La Llorona's lair and had Theodora distract La Llorona as the rest evacuated the kidnapped children. He has uncovered the catacomb complex where Tonatiuh and Ollin's remains rest and had to find which casket that contain their bodies. Unfortunately, La Llorona sees through Theodora's deception and quickly run for Leo. Discovered that he has evacuated the kids, she attacked him and Kika just as he found Tonatiuh and Ollin's remains and nearly killed them.
Redemption and Afterlife[]
When the hope seems lost with Kika and Leo dying, La Llorona prepared for delivering the final blow before she suddenly hestitates: The sight of them dying eerily similar back when she found her children's dead bodies and went undergo a mental breakdown, horrified with what she just did.
As sadness filled her heart once more, the whole area unexpectedly shined in white light, and to her joy, spirits of Tonatiuh and Ollin appeared for her and comforted their mother. With this, La Llorona revert to Yoltzin, a caring mother she originally was and find the peace that she has lost, no longer anchored to the land of the living. Realizing that Leo and Kika actually meant to help her, she resuscitated them and thanked them before went for afterlife, but not before left the gate opened long enough for spirit of Leo's mother temporarily entered the mortal realm to reunites with her son as gratitude for his noble actions.
La Leyenda de las Momias de Guanajuato[]
Is mentioned by Teodora when she met Valentina (disguised as Luis), commenting on how depressing and horrible she was.
Inside the market, La Llorona is mistaken for an old merchant when Teodora sees her in the shadows and hears her moan, but her products were actually advertised. It is named when Luis/Valentina tells Leo San Juan that it is not a big deal to have fought with her, for being a woman with La Nahuala.
During the vision of the shaman Tzulik there is an analepsis where La Llorona appears.
Other Appearances[]
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During the preview, which is not part of the canon of the saga, there is a social network called Freisbook where La Llorona has her own profile, under the name of Yoltzin, commenting on her famous phrase of "oh, my children" and that she thought funny the status photo that Teodora shared while two mummies attacked her with Leo.
La Leyenda de la Nahuala - Teathre 2015[]
La Llorona is described, along with other legends, in the final song as, a woman who spends her nights crying for her children and who terrified Xochimilco.
La Leyenda del Chupacabras[]
Despite not making any mention of her appears in the main theme recap where she was shown in the crypt and when she grabbed Leo San Juan from the air.
La Leyenda del Charro Negro[]
La Llorona is seen again in an opening theme where she is seen chasing Leo and Kika on the Xochimilco channels, approaching in the screen with a shriek.
When Leo wants to make a deal with El Charro Negro to save Beatriz's soul, he names that he defeated La Llorona and lets her know that he is the heroic ghost hunter.
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She is briefly mentioned by Finado and Moribunda when pretending to be scared after a mysterious voice silenced them.
La Leyenda de los Chaneques[]
She is only mentioned by Nando when she denies Diego about his belief in the supernatural.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Ollin and Tonatiuh - children
Allies[]
- Xochimilco kids
- Leo San Juan
- Beto
- Kika
- Xochimilco town's people (former, some of them were killed by her)
Enemies[]
- Leo San Juan (former archenemy before he helped to rest in peace, attempted victim)
- Father Telló (possibly victim)
- Kika (after being rejected by her, attempted victim)
- Alebrije
- Don Andrés
- Teodora Villavicencio
- Finado and Moribunda
Neutral[]
- Pecas - her creation by giving it life with one of her tears
- Willy
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