Now doesn't that just give you a case of the shivers? Hide your kids, hide your wife, La Llorona's drowning everybody out here. The horrors of her grief are such that, even the sound of her cires are said to bring death and misfortune to those who hear her. Now, caught between the world of the living and the dead, she eternally searches for her children, kidnapping any wandering child she finds and drowning them. Realizing what she's done, she prowled the riverbank for days after, looking for her sons, only to be found dead on the banks days later.
The story goes that La Llorona, a woman of renown beauty, learned of her husband's infidelity and in a fit of grief and rage took from him the thing he loves most - his children - drowning them in the river. A ghoulish, cautionary tale whispered into children's ears to keep them from straying at night or playing in dangerous waters, La Llorona has haunted kids' nightmares for generations. La Llorona, aka the Wailing Woman, is one of the most popular folklore figures of all time.
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