As a Norteamericano, I can't help but thinking of the Susan Smith and Andrea Yates cases when I hear about La Llorona. It almost makes me wonder if there wasn't some historical Llorona who actually lived once, centuries or perhaps millennia ago, and that maybe, just maybe, there is the tiniest real-life grain of fact beneath all the myth and legend? Of course, we'll never know, but it's interesting to speculate on.