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Legends of the City of Mexico

Chapter 46: Transcriber's note:
By Thomas A. Janvier
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Mythology, Legends & Folklore

About This Book

A collection of folk legends gathered from the streets and old residents of Mexico City, presented as short narratives tied to particular alleys, plazas, and landmarks. Each tale blends historical incidents, unexplained happenings, and supernatural embellishment, illustrating how oral transmission reshapes memory into myth. The book preserves popular variants while supplying notes, photographs, and illustrations that locate stories in place, and it highlights recurring themes of haunting, moral consequence, and communal belief. The compiler aims to reproduce the versions current among common people, keeping their plain phrasing, inconsistencies, and folkloric tone rather than smoothing them into literary artifice.

[3] See Note III.

[4] See Note IV.

[5] See Note V.

[6] See Note VI.

[7] See Note VII.

[8] See Note VIII.

[9] See Note IX.

[10] "La Cruz del Diablo," with other stories of a like sort by Becquer, all very well worth reading, may be read in English in the accurate translation recently made by Cornelia Frances Bates and Katharine Lee Bates under the title Romantic Legends of Spain (New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.); and in the original Spanish, with the assistance of scholarly notes and a vocabulary, in the collection prepared for class use by Dr. Everett Ward Olmsted under the English title Legends and Poems by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (Boston, Ginn & Co.).

Transcriber's note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed.

The illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs, thus the page number of the illustration might not match the page number in the List of Illustrations.

The cover for the eBook version of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

The list of drawings is incorrect. There is no drawing in the book for LEGEND OF THE CALLE DEL PUENTE DEL CLÉRIGO Facing p. 14, but the reference to it has been left in place.