"For roughly five centuries, the popular cultural figure known across Greater Mexico as La Llorona (the Weeping/Wailing Woman) has given rise to countless oral and written accounts of the legend that bears her name. Considerable diversity in the story’s arrangement and function has developed in the course of time, yet at its core the tale revolves around a woman who commits infanticide after an unfaithful husband or lover deserts her. Following the deed, usually accomplished by drowning her children, the woman takes her own life by the same means or, depending on the version, dies from overwhelming grief. She subsequently returns from the afterlife as La Llorona, a white-clad spirit condemned to haunt the living and to cry out in search of her lost children for eternity." Rene H. Treviño, “Absolving La Llorona: Yda H. Addis’s ‘The Wailing Woman.’”Legacy 36, no. 1 (2019): 123.