These stories are generally told at midnight, with the family reunited.
Death and memory become one on the first days of November in Latin American countries, where those who left the world are commemorated with offerings in their honor and other ornamental elements. This is remembered between November 1 and 2, the first date corresponds to the feast of All Saints and the second to the dead.
How the Day of the Dead is remembered in Latin America
The Day of the Dead is one of the celebrations that is lived with more intensity in some Latin American countries, such as Mexico, Bolivia, Guatemala and Ecuador; Depending on the region there are various traditions that are employed. About these holidays, Several terrifying legends are told for the Day of the Dead such as: the weeping woman, the nurse or the hat.
Here are some of these stories briefly known:
With the phrase “Aaaaaaaay, my children!”, The weeping woman is probably the most internationally known legend about the Day of the Dead. And it is that with this story songs, monologues, films and even costumes have been made for Halloween.
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The weeping woman
The legend of the weeping woman is about an indigenous woman who, in times of the Spanish conquest, fell in love with a nobleman. After furtive encounters they had three children, but that romance always remained in the shadows, despite the young woman’s wishes to formalize.
Over the years, the Spanish nobleman married his equal, a high-class Spanish woman. Such was the disappointment of the indigenous woman that when she found out, she murdered her children; some say he did it to show the Spaniard that his children also had noble blood. Since then, the woman’s soul does not rest and regrets what she did with a cry: Aaaaaaaay, my children!
The burned
The legend of the burned collects another affliction of love.
In this story, the main character was high class, very beautiful and with boys pretending her love. Beatriz Espinosa caused a rage in men, so much so that one of her suitors; An Italian nobleman named Martín de Seópolli, jealous of what his beauty aroused in other men, ordered the killing of every man who approached him.
The deaths of those who claimed his love did not wait. And afflicted by not being able to love without someone being hurt, Beatriz, decided to end her beauty; he brought to his room a lit brazier into which he buried his face to disfigure it; screams flooded his house, and all his servants rushed to help him. But it was late …
When Martín found out what the young woman had done, he confessed that he loved her for who she was on the inside and not just for her beauty. Beatriz decided to marry him and since then she wore a veil that covered her face.
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The big hat
According to the Internet, the story of the hat is about a not very tall man, who always wore a large black hat and a guitar as an accessory.
The funny thing about this character is that when he meets a beautiful young woman, he follows her home to serenade her, as well as rob her of sleep and take her appetite. Finally, the harassed young woman dies.
Tradition tells that it is seen on full moon nights.
The tamarind widow
Ecuador, for its part, is also the owner of dark stories that in sectors such as Calceta, Manta and some sectors of the mountains, are told in a dark environment. For example, the tamarind widow.
The story arises in the colonial stage, in the center of the Ecuadorian coast; tells a horror story about spirits and ghosts. The origin of the story possibly occurs in Manabí, although the beginning, middle and end occurs in the city of Guayaquil.
The story goes that a woman murdered her Spanish husband. The murder committed condemned the soul of the widow, leaving her ‘cursed’ and confined to wandering near a tamarind tree, on a farm in the Fifth Couple, eternally crying for the memory of her husband.
It is said that in the vicinity of the current ‘Guayaquil Clinic‘, in the neighborhood near the city’s cemetery, the people of that time liked to drink and enjoy the nightlife around the old hacienda. Many individuals in an alcoholic state roamed the place and noticed the presence of a slender woman dressed in black.
The amazed men were encouraged to follow her in order to woo her, she led them to an aged tamarind. When they were under the tamarind, the woman turned around and was seen as a hideous skull with a dark veil. After being shocked by noticing their eerie presence, they fell to the floor in fear and foamed at the mouth, to die after a few minutes. (I)
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