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Read ghost stories, myths, legends and wonder tales from all over Mexico!
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The Spooky Series
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Mexican Ghost Stories
- The Girl in White
He was sulking a little, standing at the sidelines while all the other men danced with their pretty partners. His girl had not come to the dance that night. Her mother was ill, and so his girl had remained at her side. A fine pious act, he thought sourly, but it left him at loose ends...
- The Wailing Woman
Once a Spanish soldier married a beautiful native woman and they had two children whom the soldier loved very much. However, the soldier came from a rich family. His parents and relations disapproved of his wife and threatened to disown him unless he married a Spanish woman...
- The Bells
There once was an evil priest who did not fear God or man. His duties for the church included counting the offerings and ringing the bells to summon people to Mass. But his heart was filled with greed, and he began to take advantage of the good people of his parish. The priest stole money out of the offerings to keep for himself, and when he had filled a chest full of gold, he killed a man and buried him with the chest so the murdered man's ghost would guard it...
- The Burro from Another World
When I was young, I lived in a very small town; there were only a few houses hidden in the foothills. At that time we had no electricity and night fell in complete darkness, so people preferred to go to bed early...
Mexican Myths & Legends
- Poinsetta
Pepita, a poor Mexican girl who had no gift to present the Christ Child at Christmas Eve Services. As Pepita walked slowly to the chapel with her cousin Pedro, her heart was filled with sadness rather than joy...
- Badger Names the Sun
AT THE BEGINNING of the era of the Surem, nobody knew the name of the sun and they wanted a name for it. For this reason they held a council on the bank of the Surem river. Everyone gave his opinion but no name was found for the sun...
- San Pedro and the Devil
One day San Pedro was standing by a big cottonwood tree. The Devil came up to him and said, "I hear that you are very powerful. I, also, am very strong. If you can strike this tree with your fist so that your hand goes through the trunk from one side to the other, I will admit that you are stronger than me..."
- Quetzalcoatl
When the wife of Mixcoatl gave birth to the hero Topiltzin, he burst from her chest fully armed and prepared to join his father Mixcoatl's armies...
- Nahuales
One afternoon, my Uncle Luis told me stories about Nahuales, which are people that turn into animals, like pigs and burros and chickens, so they can take other animals...
- Twenty Bushels of Corn
Many years ago, a man and his son went from Aramberri to Tamulipas to look for work. They came back with twenty burros loaded with corn. On the way, night fell. They unloaded the burros, and tied the twenty bushels of corn, all together, to a big tree trunk...
Mexican Fairytales
- The Bear-Prince
Once upon a time there was a very poor woodcutter who had three beautiful daughters. Of the three girls, the youngest was the most beautiful. One day the woodcutter went into the forest and was chopping down an oak tree when a very large and horrible bear wrenched the axe from his hands...
- The Gypsy Queen
There was a king who had one son. When the prince reached a marriageable age, he told his parents, "I want to marry the most beautiful woman in the whole world. Therefore, I am going to journey all over the world until I find her..."
- The Forbidden Chamber
Once there was an evil wizard who, dressed as a beggar, would go from house to house asking for alms and would steal the prettiest girls he could find. None of them could ever return home...
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