A5 La Llorona coloured print* La Llorona aka the wailing woman, is a dark Mexican folk story about a woman driven to madness and kills her two children in a local river. Driven by grief she then drowned herself in the same river. Upon entering the afterlife she was told she could not enter heaven until she found the souls of her murdered children and brought them back with her. Unknown to her she was actually in Hell and the Devil had tricked her. Her kids were already in heaven but La Llorona returned to the moral world to wonder until she found her kids. Stories differ, sometimes she merely lurks wailing by the rivers but other stories say she will kill children she has mistaken for her own.