The infanticide is sometimes carried out with a knife or dagger, but very often the children have been drowned. Usually translated into English as ‘the wailing woman’, she is often presented as a banshee-type: an apparition of a woman dressed in white, often found by lakes or rivers, sometimes at crossroads, who cries into the night for her lost children, whom she has killed.
La Llorona is a legendary figure with various incarnations. During an interview Léija declared that she was La Llorona. A victim of domestic violence, she was apparently trying to end her suffering and that of her children, two of whom died. A Mexican woman, Juana Léija, attempted to kill her seven children by throwing them into the Buffalo Bayou in Houston, Texas in 1986.
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