A Story To Tell Your Kids
The contextualization of this project is meant to give background on the legend's and give them more of a connection with their history.
Chapter 1: Maria
This story begins in Mexico in 1510, when Conquistadors from many different lands roamed the land and searched for gold. A good portion of them were from Mexico, but we’re not focusing on them we’re focusing on one, in particular, one from Germany.
There was a beautiful young woman named Maria. Her family was quite poor. Maria was known for her beauty throughout her village. One day a Conquistador from Germany came to Maria’s village, he saw Maria and thought ‘I must have this Foreign beauty’ he had smoothed talked Maria and made her fall for him. So when he proposed she immediately accepted, her family was delighted! the man’s father, not so much he had said to his son “She is not of our stature, she is poor and dirty.” The man did not listen.
He hid Maria away in a house that he had men build for her. As many months passed ,she gave birth to twin boys. (Now as I mentioned Maria’s husband was a conquistador he often traveled .I would remember that if I were you.) Years went on and as the husband traveled he came back each time a little more cold, distant, rude, towards Maria.
Then one day he didn’t come back, which caused quite a stir with the townspeople, the townspeople grew cold to this once unsullied beautiful girl. One day when Maria was walking near the river with her sons a carriage carrying Maria’s husband, and a beautiful young woman who wore clothing fit for a queen and sparkling jewelry, and Maria thought bitterly ‘Someone his father would approve of.’ What he said next drove Maria to do something terrible: “Such handsome boys belong to a hideous mother.” The carriage carried forward and with the snap of the whip, Maria lost what Sanity she had. She grabbed her boys and threw them in the river.
When she came to she instantly regretted it, she spent many months looking for her boys but never found them.this eventually led to Maria throwing herself in the river. However, Maria forgot the sins she had committed Murder and Suicide turning her into La Llorona. But there was another thing Maria had forgotten. Maria had forgotten the rest of the Rivers, one boy had gone upstream and the other stayed downstream she would never find them because a monster cannot see through other monsters.
Chapter 2: The Boy
Before the Mexican Revolution began a young boy was found near a riverbank by a wealthy nobleman, and his young wife.
The boy did not talk much, he didn’t talk about how he came up from the river or who his family was. The man tried his best to put on a false facade for the boy, and the boy sensed something wrong with him. He distanced himself from his adoptive family and what he heard through the thin walls.
The shattering of glass, the screams from his adoptive mother, he was reminded of what had put him in that river. A year later is when he put a stop to it when the man's wife was beaten to the point where she couldn’t breathe without hurting, the boy had made friends with the man just so he could harm him. The man took the boy out in the woods to hunt and when the man was about to strike a deer. The boy stabbed the man’s back with a knife, from the bottom to the top.
He returned to his home with blood on his face and a tormented look in the eyes. He came to the sight of the man’s father in the living room and when the man’s father saw him he knew what he did. And the next part well, the man’s father tied the boy to the tree and whipped his back till it was bloody and raw, he cleaned the cuts with limes, spilling the juices in the boy’s back, he rubbed hot chili peppers in them. The woman was told to fetch a man to go find her husband’s body, and she was told to tell them to put her husband’s bones in the bag. When the wife returned with the other man in hand, and this might be horrible to those of you with a faint heart, the man’s father shot both of them. He grabbed his son's bones and placed them on the boys back saying to him,“Run, and pray for what you’ve done.”
The boy ran as fast as he could. The man’s father sent out his dogs after the boy. The dogs ate the boy up, the man’s father riding next to the dog’s, laying a curse on the boy “For what you’ve done to my son you will be cursed to walk the earth until its destruction!!!!” No amount of praying could undo that.
It was then that the man’s father made El Silbon, a terrifying tall man, who looks like he is merely skin and bone. He carries a sack of bones with him whistling a tune, much like most things he has weaknesses, dogs, he’s terrified of them. Bullets, he doesn’t stay dead for long. El Silbon whistles a tune that when heard loud and clear he is far, but when heard, ever so faintly, he is close. He comes into people's houses at night and counts his bones if you hear him, you and your family will be spared. However, if you don’t hear him by sunrise, someone in your house will die. No matter how hard he looked though he could never find his brother… as mentioned Monsters can’t see through other monsters.
Chapter 3: The Father
Readers are warned this chapter is far more upsetting than the other two, so I ask that you put the book down and leave it here,if you are faint of heart.
In 1517, Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba came to Mexico, his forces nearly defeated . Hernan Cortez was sent to command the army instead of him. A young boy was found on the street and taken in by a farmer and his wife and many years after this is when our story begins.
There once was a young widower, who had two children, one boy, one girl, and both grieving in their own way. One day, the children grieved in a way that is mostly frowned upon. They grieved by making trouble, and after weeks of this happening the father had had enough. He locked them away in a closet and continued with his work. He had gone to the market forgetting about his children. It wasn’t until he got home again he remembered about his children, it wasn’t because of the sun setting, or the fact they didn’t have food, it was the fact, his house was nothing but embers and soot, with barely anything covering the inside.
He ran inside or what was left of it at least and looked into the charred closet… his children weren’t there. He thought to himself ‘They must have disappeared, I can find them and apologize!!’
He spent years searching but to no avail. He wouldn’t eat or sleep, he wouldn’t talk to people, he just searched. One day, the search came to a halt. The man had gone home, he hadn’t rebuilt it, the foundation was molding and decaying, he went upstairs and sat in the closet he had put his children in. while sitting there the tears rolled down his face and his choking sobs drowned out all sound, he had started falling without realizing it. The floor had given way. He felt his back hit the ground. He died and became something else. A beast who looks like a wolf and a large human-like body. Still searching for his children but no longer for his guilt, it’s for his hunger. Searching in dark closets. His family never to be seen again because monsters cannot see the guise of another monster.
Chapter 4: Legends
Maria’s family did not stay human for long as many of you can’t tell. I have a feeling that you are wondering what happened to The Father’s children that fellow readers is a story for another day. Maria’s son’s had become monsters, just as she became one. A family of monsters each one more terrifying than the last. But that’s the thing with legends the more they’re told the more they appear no matter were there told. Legends are funny like that, they can appear even if you only heard the story, and now with so many legends like these becoming into movies, t.v. shows, or being on social media. The legends spread and no one is safe from them.
This story begins in Mexico in 1510, when Conquistadors from many different lands roamed the land and searched for gold. A good portion of them were from Mexico, but we’re not focusing on them we’re focusing on one, in particular, one from Germany.
There was a beautiful young woman named Maria. Her family was quite poor. Maria was known for her beauty throughout her village. One day a Conquistador from Germany came to Maria’s village, he saw Maria and thought ‘I must have this Foreign beauty’ he had smoothed talked Maria and made her fall for him. So when he proposed she immediately accepted, her family was delighted! the man’s father, not so much he had said to his son “She is not of our stature, she is poor and dirty.” The man did not listen.
He hid Maria away in a house that he had men build for her. As many months passed ,she gave birth to twin boys. (Now as I mentioned Maria’s husband was a conquistador he often traveled .I would remember that if I were you.) Years went on and as the husband traveled he came back each time a little more cold, distant, rude, towards Maria.
Then one day he didn’t come back, which caused quite a stir with the townspeople, the townspeople grew cold to this once unsullied beautiful girl. One day when Maria was walking near the river with her sons a carriage carrying Maria’s husband, and a beautiful young woman who wore clothing fit for a queen and sparkling jewelry, and Maria thought bitterly ‘Someone his father would approve of.’ What he said next drove Maria to do something terrible: “Such handsome boys belong to a hideous mother.” The carriage carried forward and with the snap of the whip, Maria lost what Sanity she had. She grabbed her boys and threw them in the river.
When she came to she instantly regretted it, she spent many months looking for her boys but never found them.this eventually led to Maria throwing herself in the river. However, Maria forgot the sins she had committed Murder and Suicide turning her into La Llorona. But there was another thing Maria had forgotten. Maria had forgotten the rest of the Rivers, one boy had gone upstream and the other stayed downstream she would never find them because a monster cannot see through other monsters.
Chapter 2: The Boy
Before the Mexican Revolution began a young boy was found near a riverbank by a wealthy nobleman, and his young wife.
The boy did not talk much, he didn’t talk about how he came up from the river or who his family was. The man tried his best to put on a false facade for the boy, and the boy sensed something wrong with him. He distanced himself from his adoptive family and what he heard through the thin walls.
The shattering of glass, the screams from his adoptive mother, he was reminded of what had put him in that river. A year later is when he put a stop to it when the man's wife was beaten to the point where she couldn’t breathe without hurting, the boy had made friends with the man just so he could harm him. The man took the boy out in the woods to hunt and when the man was about to strike a deer. The boy stabbed the man’s back with a knife, from the bottom to the top.
He returned to his home with blood on his face and a tormented look in the eyes. He came to the sight of the man’s father in the living room and when the man’s father saw him he knew what he did. And the next part well, the man’s father tied the boy to the tree and whipped his back till it was bloody and raw, he cleaned the cuts with limes, spilling the juices in the boy’s back, he rubbed hot chili peppers in them. The woman was told to fetch a man to go find her husband’s body, and she was told to tell them to put her husband’s bones in the bag. When the wife returned with the other man in hand, and this might be horrible to those of you with a faint heart, the man’s father shot both of them. He grabbed his son's bones and placed them on the boys back saying to him,“Run, and pray for what you’ve done.”
The boy ran as fast as he could. The man’s father sent out his dogs after the boy. The dogs ate the boy up, the man’s father riding next to the dog’s, laying a curse on the boy “For what you’ve done to my son you will be cursed to walk the earth until its destruction!!!!” No amount of praying could undo that.
It was then that the man’s father made El Silbon, a terrifying tall man, who looks like he is merely skin and bone. He carries a sack of bones with him whistling a tune, much like most things he has weaknesses, dogs, he’s terrified of them. Bullets, he doesn’t stay dead for long. El Silbon whistles a tune that when heard loud and clear he is far, but when heard, ever so faintly, he is close. He comes into people's houses at night and counts his bones if you hear him, you and your family will be spared. However, if you don’t hear him by sunrise, someone in your house will die. No matter how hard he looked though he could never find his brother… as mentioned Monsters can’t see through other monsters.
Chapter 3: The Father
Readers are warned this chapter is far more upsetting than the other two, so I ask that you put the book down and leave it here,if you are faint of heart.
In 1517, Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba came to Mexico, his forces nearly defeated . Hernan Cortez was sent to command the army instead of him. A young boy was found on the street and taken in by a farmer and his wife and many years after this is when our story begins.
There once was a young widower, who had two children, one boy, one girl, and both grieving in their own way. One day, the children grieved in a way that is mostly frowned upon. They grieved by making trouble, and after weeks of this happening the father had had enough. He locked them away in a closet and continued with his work. He had gone to the market forgetting about his children. It wasn’t until he got home again he remembered about his children, it wasn’t because of the sun setting, or the fact they didn’t have food, it was the fact, his house was nothing but embers and soot, with barely anything covering the inside.
He ran inside or what was left of it at least and looked into the charred closet… his children weren’t there. He thought to himself ‘They must have disappeared, I can find them and apologize!!’
He spent years searching but to no avail. He wouldn’t eat or sleep, he wouldn’t talk to people, he just searched. One day, the search came to a halt. The man had gone home, he hadn’t rebuilt it, the foundation was molding and decaying, he went upstairs and sat in the closet he had put his children in. while sitting there the tears rolled down his face and his choking sobs drowned out all sound, he had started falling without realizing it. The floor had given way. He felt his back hit the ground. He died and became something else. A beast who looks like a wolf and a large human-like body. Still searching for his children but no longer for his guilt, it’s for his hunger. Searching in dark closets. His family never to be seen again because monsters cannot see the guise of another monster.
Chapter 4: Legends
Maria’s family did not stay human for long as many of you can’t tell. I have a feeling that you are wondering what happened to The Father’s children that fellow readers is a story for another day. Maria’s son’s had become monsters, just as she became one. A family of monsters each one more terrifying than the last. But that’s the thing with legends the more they’re told the more they appear no matter were there told. Legends are funny like that, they can appear even if you only heard the story, and now with so many legends like these becoming into movies, t.v. shows, or being on social media. The legends spread and no one is safe from them.
History timeline
La Llorona Time Period:
1510:
The time of conquistadors “He who conquers”, conquistadors came to the new land in hopes of finding gold. Now more on the conquistadors, most conquistadors were born very poor or lowborn nobility, people who were high nobility sent out men. Back to the stuff we already know, the Natives (Along with what gold they could find.) Conquistadors generally shared their bounty with the king. Now back to the Conquistadors, yes many came from Spain but they weren’t all Spaniards, some were German, Some were French, some were from other Europeans. (Remember that for later). So that’s what I have for now.
El Silbon Time Period: 1
1808-1823, A time of War
1808:
Napoleon Bonaparte occupies Spain, deposes the monarchy, the installs his brother, as head of state. The ensuing Peninsular War, between Spain which was backed by Britain (just an F.W.I). and France will lead almost directly to the Mexican war for independence, as the colonial government in New Spain falls into disarray and its opponents begin to gain momentum.
1810:
A priest by the of Manuel Hidalgo that lived in the village of Delores issued his famous call for Mexican independence. His rebellion was defeated easily but is still remembered on September 16th as Mexican Independence.
1814:
Another priest by the name of Jose Morelos took on a succession of the Hidalgo as the leader. He proclaimed the Mexican Republic, he was soon defeated by General Agustin de Iturbide and his armies, the Revolution passing to Vicente Guerrero.
1821:
Mexican independence did not have an official beginning until August 1821, when the last Spanish Viceroy was forced to sign the Treaty of Cordoba.
1823:
The newly appointed emperor Iturbide was deposed by former aide General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, being executed by Mexico’s first elected president Guadalupe Victoria a better struggle resumes between centralist and Federalist, the struggle included conservatives, federalists, liberals, a new Mexican government that continued for the next several decades.
The Cucuy Background:
1517: The first European Francisco Hernadez de Cordoba the first to visit Mexican territory from Yucatan in Cuba with three ships and about one hundred men. Members of the local native population clash killing about fifty them and capturing several more causing Spanish Governor Deigo Velasquez to send a larger force to Mexico commanded by Hernan Cortez.
La Llorona Time Period:
1510:
The time of conquistadors “He who conquers”, conquistadors came to the new land in hopes of finding gold. Now more on the conquistadors, most conquistadors were born very poor or lowborn nobility, people who were high nobility sent out men. Back to the stuff we already know, the Natives (Along with what gold they could find.) Conquistadors generally shared their bounty with the king. Now back to the Conquistadors, yes many came from Spain but they weren’t all Spaniards, some were German, Some were French, some were from other Europeans. (Remember that for later). So that’s what I have for now.
El Silbon Time Period: 1
1808-1823, A time of War
1808:
Napoleon Bonaparte occupies Spain, deposes the monarchy, the installs his brother, as head of state. The ensuing Peninsular War, between Spain which was backed by Britain (just an F.W.I). and France will lead almost directly to the Mexican war for independence, as the colonial government in New Spain falls into disarray and its opponents begin to gain momentum.
1810:
A priest by the of Manuel Hidalgo that lived in the village of Delores issued his famous call for Mexican independence. His rebellion was defeated easily but is still remembered on September 16th as Mexican Independence.
1814:
Another priest by the name of Jose Morelos took on a succession of the Hidalgo as the leader. He proclaimed the Mexican Republic, he was soon defeated by General Agustin de Iturbide and his armies, the Revolution passing to Vicente Guerrero.
1821:
Mexican independence did not have an official beginning until August 1821, when the last Spanish Viceroy was forced to sign the Treaty of Cordoba.
1823:
The newly appointed emperor Iturbide was deposed by former aide General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, being executed by Mexico’s first elected president Guadalupe Victoria a better struggle resumes between centralist and Federalist, the struggle included conservatives, federalists, liberals, a new Mexican government that continued for the next several decades.
The Cucuy Background:
1517: The first European Francisco Hernadez de Cordoba the first to visit Mexican territory from Yucatan in Cuba with three ships and about one hundred men. Members of the local native population clash killing about fifty them and capturing several more causing Spanish Governor Deigo Velasquez to send a larger force to Mexico commanded by Hernan Cortez.