The Legend Of La Llorona Review: Spooky Mexican Myth Is More Fun Than Scary
The Legend of La Llorona The Weeping Woman ( aka , La Llorona ) is a 16th - century folk tale . Legend has it that a woman named Maria wed a rich conquistador and had two kid . When she light upon her new lovers ’ infidelity , she drowned both of her child in a river . Consumed with monumental guilt , she swim herself immediately after . As the legend has it , her crimes were so austere she was punished to an eternity in purgatory until she notice her lost children — or , at least , someone ’s child ....