Proposal

I chose to write about the legend of La Llorona because he story has always interested me.  This story was told to me several times by my great grandmother in New Mexico when I was a child in order to keep me inside at night and away from rivers and drainage ditches.  Although there is no evidence of this legend being anywhere near true, I chose to write about it because it holds some south western culture to it.  The story tells of a spirit that wanders around in the darkest hours of the night, calling out for her lost children.  The legend states that if a child is to go out at night and wander the river banks or drainage ditches, La Llorona would find them and the child would meet a gruesome death.