In general Hispanic folklore, (The Weeping Woman) is the vengeful or sorrowful ghost of a woman named Maria. Driven by jealousy or despair after being abandoned by her husband for a woman of higher social standing, she drowns her own children in a river. Realizing the horror of her actions, she dies—either by drowning herself or from grief—and is condemned to wander the earth eternally, wailing for her lost children.
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