Every year on Halloween, the La Llorona would kidnap three children and drown them in the river at midnight. According to the legend she drowned her own children, and did so hoping they would take there place. In 1519, a Spanish Grimm who had traveled with Cortes to South America, heard the legend, and went to kill her to stop her reign of murder. However he apparently failed and was killed by her, as he never wrote another entry in his dairy.