The Legends of the City of Mexico

Record summary

Luis González Obregón’s late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century work on Mexico City’s streets and legends preserves colonial and popular narratives attached to specific places. Some stories involve apparitions, nighttime lights, religious signs, and fire-related marvels, making the corpus useful for comparing how luminous motifs migrate from sacred history into urban legend. The precise relevant story should be located by edition and Spanish wording because later anthologies reorganize the material. These are historical legends and literary compilations, not independently verified supernatural incidents.