The wailing woman
Crying for all eternity seems a heavy price to pay but this is said to be the fate of the wailing woman.
The story goes that many years ago a Spanish soldier married a young woman of indigenous descent. The couple lived happily and had two children. The problems started when, bowing to pressure from his wealthy family, the soldier left his beloved wife and married a Spanish woman from the Hidalgo class.
Such was the fury of the abandoned wife that she drowned their two children in a nearby river and then escaped to the forest, where she later killed herself. It’s said that such was the enormity of her crime that her spirit still roams Mexico searching for her dead children.
If you hear a wailing sound when in Mexico, it mightn’t be the wind in the trees – it might be the wailing woman.