The story has developed over the years with people now saying she kidnaps children who look like her own little ones. Later she was dubbed La Llorona meaning the Weeping Woman and apparently roams near rivers, oceans, and bodies of water, but always after dark. Some versions of the myths claim when she arrived at Heaven’s gates she was refused access and banished to Purgatory on Earth until she could find the children she killed. That very night the villagers hear a woman crying and it sounds like Maria’s voice asking “Where are my children?” An eerie figure in a long white robe, like Maria’s burial clothes, is seen walking along the riverbank.
That’s not the end of the story though, it never is when it comes to spooky myths. She’s buried in the village the next day. Tormented by what she has done Maria drowns herself – some stories argue she died from grief. Maria runs down the riverbank, wailing: “Ay, mis hijos! ” which translates to ‘Oh, my children! or Oh, my sons!’ She desperately tries to rescue them but to no avail. She suddenly realises what’s she’s done and is filled with regret. Enraged by what she’s seen she throws the children into the river staring on as they drop into its murky depths. Then, one day when Maria was walking with her children she sees her husband with another woman. Her husband apparently began to spend less time at home, ignoring her but pouring his attention on the children. The pair have two children, but after a few happy years together, their marriage hits the rocks. The most common version of the La Llorona story begins with Maria, a beautiful, but vain woman who marries a very rich man.
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