Sailor Moon: "La Llorona" a.k.a "The Weeping Woman"
Serenity was a caring woman full of life and love, who married a wealthy man, Endymion, who lavished her with gifts and attention. However, after she bore him two daughters, he began to change, returning to a life of womanizing and alcohol, often leaving her for months at a time. He seemingly no longer cared for the beautiful Serenity, even talking about leaving her to marry a woman of his own wealthy class. When he did return home, it was only to visit his children and the devastated Serenity began to feel resentment toward the girls.
One evening, as Serenity was strolling with her two children on a shady pathway near the river, Endymion came by in a carriage with an elegant lady beside him. He stopped and spoke to his children, but ignored Serenity, and then drove the carriage down the road without looking back.
After seeing this Serenity went into a terrible rage, and turning against her children, she seized them and threw them into the river. As they disappeared downstream, she realized what she had done and ran down the bank to save them, but it was too late. Serenity broke down into inconsolable grief, running down the streets screaming and wailing.
The beautiful Serenity mourned them day and night. During this time, she would not eat and walked along the river in her white gown searching for her girls - hoping they would come back to her. She cried endlessly as she roamed the riverbanks and her gown became soiled and torn. When she continued to refuse to eat, she grew thinner and appeared taller until she looked like a walking skeleton. Still a young woman, she finally died on the banks of the river.
Not long after her death, her restless spirit began to appear, walking the banks of the Santa Fe River when darkness fell. Her weeping and wailing became a curse of the night and people began to be afraid to go out after dark. She was said to have been seen drifting between the trees along the shoreline or floating on the current with her long white gown spread out upon the waters. On many a dark night people would see her walking along the riverbank and crying for her children. And so, they no longer spoke of her as Serenity, but rather, La Llorona, the weeping woman. Children are warned not to go out in the dark, for La Llorona might snatch them, throwing them to their deaths in the flowing waters.
*La Llorona (LAH yoh ROH na)
-This story is based on the Mexican Legend: La Llorona. For those of you who are of Hispanic heritage might have heard of it. All rights go to the original creators. I just made a mash-up. The only thing I own is the idea to mash both stories together. Other than that, I own nothing-