Tears and Collective Weeping

Should collective weeping be popularised again?

“Our Lady of Tears”: Hermandad de la Santa Vera Cruz

We think of tears as being part of a solitary activity. Yet traditionally crying was a public act.

Archetypally it is women that are permitted to cry publicly. In Mexican folklore, La Llorona was a vengeful ghost who wandered near bodies of water to mourn the children that she had killed in a jealous rage to…