La Llorona, the Weeping Woman, is the most enduring ghost of the American Southwest... a woman in white who drifts along the rivers and the irrigation ditches at night, weeping for the children she drowned, and who will take yours if she mistakes them for her own. But she was never one ghost...she is very misunderstood. In this episode of Dust and Echoes, James Cawley digs down through five centuries of real history beneath her: a weeping woman recorded as an omen in the streets of Tenochtitlan before Cortés ever landed, the Aztec goddesses who mourned and drowned before that, the real enslaved interpreter La Malinche whom the legend slandered, and the desert children the acequias and arroyos still take every monsoon.The ghost can't be proven. Everything she's made of is real...and heavier than the ghost. This is how a people carries grief too large to hold.