She is a beautiful woman. Her name is Maria. She leaving her children in order to be with the man that she loved. But that man is not sincere to her and devastated her. So she drowned herself in a river in Mexico City. She is not permitted to enter the afterlife until she will meet her children. Maria is forced to wander the Earth for all eternity, searching in vain for her drowned offspring, with her constant weeping giving her the name "La Llorona". She is trapped in between the living world and the spirit world. Parents often use this story to prevent their children from wandering out at night. In some versions of this tale and legend, La Llorona will kidnap wandering children who resemble her missing children. it's has somebody who claim to have seen her say she appears at night or in the late evenings from rivers or lakes in Mexico. Some believe that those who hear the wails of La Llorona are marked for death; she is cry and said, "Oh, my children!