Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![LEGEND OF LA MUJER HERRADA1 IDO not know when this matter happened, Senor; but my grandfather, who told me about it, spoke as though all three of them— the priest, and the blacksmith, and the woman —had lived a long while before his time. How¬ ever, my grandfather said that the priest and the woman, who was his housekeeper, pretty certainly lived in a house—it is gone now, Senor—that was in the street that is called the Puerta Falsa de Santo Domingo. And he said that the blacksmith certainly did live in a house in the Calle de las Rej as de la Balvanera— because he himself had seen the house, and had seen the farrier’s knife and the pincers cut on the stone arching above the door. Therefore you perceive, Senor, that my grandfather was well acquainted with these people, and that this story is true. The priest was a secular, Senor, not belong- 1 See Note V. [64]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0104.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
