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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![guard on the walls of Manila; and this was accomplished so unfelt by the soldier that in the morning—when he was found walking sentry, musket in hand, in that city —he asked of those who addressed him in what city he was. By the Holy Office it was ordered that he should be sent back to these islands: where many who knew him have assured me of the truth of this event.” Senor Obreg6n’s comment, at once non-committal and impartial, on Fray Gaspar’s narrative admits of no improvement. I give it in his own words: “ In the face of the asseveration of so brainy a chronicler (un cronista tan sesudo) we neither trump nor discard (no ponemos ni quitamos rey) ”; to which he adds a jingle advising the critical that he gives the story as it was given to him: “ Y si lector, dijeres, ser comento, Como me lo contaron te lo cuento. ” NOTE IX LEGEND OF LA LLORONA This legend is not, as all of the other legends are, of Spanish-Mexican origin: it is wholly Mexican—a direct survival from primitive times. Seemingly without perceiving—certainly without noting—the connection between an Aztec goddess and this the most widely distributed of all Mexican folk-stories, Senor Orozco y Berra wrote: “The Tloque Nahuaque [Universal Creator] created in a garden a man and a woman who were the pro¬ genitors of the human race. . . . The woman was called](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0218.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
