Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 27, 2023

DISRESPECTFUL!

They did this story on Grimm.

Wow! Baldo can’t appreciate the storyline!

Wait, WHICH river, and what bank? We need specifics.

You just know Baldo’s going to have an encounter with La Llorona next time he goes out at night.

I love the different art style for the story.

Baldo is being polite, many would have called BS

and you want to be this sad lady because… :\

There have been many sightings of many variations of this story, especially if you include the “white lady” ghosts not associated with rivers. I don’t believe in ghosts per se, but like UFOs, cryptids (lake monsters, sasquatch…), and some other phenomena, I don’t dismiss them all as hoaxes and misidentification of common, ordinary things. (I do think that very many UFO sightings can be attributed to mylar helium balloons)

Tia’s version of the legend has been sanitized for the Baldo readers. The original Spanish colonial version has La Llorona (The Wailing Woman) catching her husband in flagrante delicto with another woman. In a fit of rage and jealousy, she drowns her two children then in remorse for the unspeakable murders, drowns herself. She’s then cursed in the afterlife to roam the earth, searching near bodies of water until she finds her children. Her wailing calls can be heard at night – especially around the time of el Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead).

I can’t credit my memory for the following, – although I saw this performance many years ago in Mexico City – but am quoting Wikipedia … "_La Cihuacoatle, Leyenda de la Llorona_ is a yearly waterfront theatrical performance of the legend of La Llorona set in the canals of the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, which was established in 1993 to coincide with the Day of the Dead "

Woman Hollering Creek near San Antonio, TX. Her husband left her and the two kids, the isolation (we’re talking 1800s) drove her crazy, she drowned her kids in the creek.

Many cultures have a story like this, meant to scare children into not wandering off. In Inuit culture, they tell children to stay away from water because a witch will pull them in and drown the,

I’ve heard a few versions of the story and one thing in common was that the woman had drowned and killed her children. The basis for the story, I’m told, goes back to the Romans.

Gracie looks scared. It will be difficult for her to sleep tonight.

Gee the worst story of this type of example – to get children to do something – I was told back when I was 3 or 4 years old – was of “The girl who would not let her mother cut her toenails”. (They grew through her shoe fronts and she could not get new ones – especially not the black patent leather shoes she wanted.)

Guess who wanted shoes like that and did not like having their toenails clipped?

My mom had a “girl who would not” or a “girl who would” for everything I would not do and everything I would do that she did not want me to do.

Hmmm, maybe my sisters and I need to come up stories of “the 94 year old woman who would not/would…”