The tale of La Llorona is set in the Venezuelan Llanos during the colonial period. La Llorona is said to be the spirit of a woman that died of sorrow after her children were killed, either by herself or by her family. Families traditionally place wooden crosses above their doors to ward off such spirits.There are different tellings of the stories, but it's often about a woman whose unfaithful husband drove her to madness and she drowned her children. It's said that her spirit haunts Mexico's landscape, weeping in search of her lost children or on the hunt for unfaithful men to punish.A