La Llorona (The Weeping Woman) was a popular Latin American folklore which tells a story of a woman who was scorned by her lover. As payback, she drowned her children, fathered by her lover, at a nearby river. When she realized what she'd done, she committed suicide. As punishment, she was now forced to wander the earth, forever crying in search of her missing children. Children are warned not to venture out after dark, for fear that La Llorona would kidnap them to replace her missing…
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