The legend says that the moaning is a spirit of a young lady that had a romance with a soldier. She got pregnant and gave birth a girl. The soldier left her and she didn’t know how to raise an infant, she was desperate because the baby didn’t stop crying and she killed her with her own hands. When she saw what she had done she started to cry and scream very loud, so loud that the neighbors heard and went to see what was happening. When they saw what she did they cursed her. She started running and she became a ghost, she is always crying and when she gets into any town she calls her daughter, she steals kids that are alone, in their houses or in the river, there is a tradition called “Semana Santa” that means the saint week and the legend says that she usually appears on that week.
There are some versions about this legend and another one says that the moaning was a young lady that lived in a little town in Venezuela and that every time she gave birth she killed every child, once she was in a church talking with the priest and she told him that she didn’t feel any regret for what she had done (for killing her children) and the priest realized that she was pregnant again so he told her that when she gave birth the baby she has to breastfeeding her/ he before killing it; she did what the priest said, while she was breastfeeding the baby she killed it, but just because she did that she like understood what being a mother was and she felt very guilty, since that day she is in the forests crying because of the pain, looking for her children and scaring every person that she finds.
She has long black hair, white skin and wears a long white dress and a black coat with a hood and always holding a baby on her arms, she cries and scream “ my son, my son!! “
Sometimes some mothers punish their children saying that if they don’t have a good behavior the moaning will take them or scare them in the night.
There are some people that says that the moaning
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