Ethereal Chronicles

Category: Latin American Folklore

  • El Sombrerón

    Rosalia was a woman of such remarkable beauty that left every man in town captivated by her. She had received countless abundances of flowers from admirers, endured the longing, often lustful gazes of strangers, even declined a handful of marriage proposals. But her life was, as it had always been,…

  • El Silbón; The Whistler

    Disdain never touched me as a child. Not even once. Perhaps that was my problem, that I had been wrapped so tightly in a world of love that I began suffocating in its sweetness; the warmth so cloying, the affection so rich it began to spoil me from the inside.…

  • Cegua; Horse Woman

    He loved his wife, but he was drawn to the company of younger women. He admired their unblemished bodies, untouched by the hardships of age or childbearing, their breasts round and full. And gradually, as his attraction to his wife waned, his nights away grew longer, entangled with woman after…

  • La Llorona; The Weeper

    I was half asleep when I heard an eerie sound pierce the stillness of the early morning, not long after twelve. It was a hideous wailing, gurgling sound which repeated the same sentence, over and over. “My sons! My sons!” I had only heard tales of her, but never before…

  • Xipe Totec; The Flayed One

    In Aztec Mythology, Xipe Totec embodied the essence of Spring, overseeing growth, death and rebirth. Because of his association with the cycle of life and death, he was also considered a god of warfare. APPEARANCE AND ATTRIBUTES Despite his revered status as a god of life, Xipe Totec was an…