#mexican folklore

[kailysander]

La Siguanaba

[flwrkid14]

Tim and Danny vs. La Llorona: A Poorly Thought-Out Vacation

Tim and Danny go to Mexico.

Not for a mission. Not because the Bats sent Tim on some grueling training exercise. Not even because Danny has ghostly obligations there.

No, they go because Tim—who functions on caffeine, stubbornness, and an obsessive need to solve mysteries—finds himself deep in a research spiral at 3 AM and decides he has to investigate La Llorona.

Danny, ever the enabler, thinks this is the funniest thing he’s ever heard. So of course he agrees.

That’s how they end up in Mexico under the flimsy excuse of a couples getaway, which might have worked if they were actually relaxing instead of breaking into abandoned churches, trekking through haunted rivers at 2 AM, and interviewing old locals who warn them, very seriously, not to look too closely.

And they should have listened.

La Llorona isn’t like anything they’ve faced before.

She isn’t a ghost—not the kind Danny knows. She doesn’t interact with the living the way Amity ghosts do. She doesn’t challenge, doesn’t fight, doesn’t rage. She weeps.

Her cries aren’t just sound. They press. They drag like sorrow itself has weight, filling the air, seeping into bones, making it impossible to breathe without tasting grief. It’s more than a haunting. It’s a story, whispered and passed down, told in hushed voices over flickering candlelight.

Danny, usually so sure in ghostly matters, visibly hesitates.

Because she isn’t just one woman. She isn’t just one tragedy. She is all of them—every mother who has ever lost a child, every grief too vast to fade. She is guilt and mourning and regret so powerful that it shaped her entire existence. If obsessions define a ghost, then La Llorona is the embodiment of a mother's sorrow. She is legend.

And legends are different from ghosts. Danny’s seen it before—how stories, when believed in enough, can shape the Infinite Realms. How ideas, memories, fears, and folklore can take form. But this? This is something else.

La Llorona doesn’t seek revenge. She doesn’t have an unfinished goal, an obsession anchoring her to existence. There is no resolution, no final act that will let her pass on. There is only grief—raw, endless, inescapable.

And grief cannot be fought. It cannot be reasoned with. It cannot be solved.

But it can be heard.

So Tim and Danny do the one thing no one else has ever done. They listen.

They don’t run. They don’t challenge. They sit by the water’s edge, let her cries wash over them, let her sorrow fill the space between heartbeats.

And for the first time in centuries, she doesn’t scream alone.

(When they leave, the river is just a river. And though the legend will live on, her cries do not follow them into the night.)

[cenna-hrms]

Santa Muerte (ref on Pinterest) Ballpoint pen (black, orange, green, red, yellow)

[trippiwonder]

Names & Colors for Santa Muerte:

La Cabrona: (The-Goat)Refers to her darker nature

La Dama Poderosa: The Powerful Lady

La Flaca: The Skinny Lady

La Huesuda: The Boney lady

La Madrina: The Godmother

La Niña: The Girl

La Niña Blanca: The White Girl

La Niña Santa: The Holy Girl

La Santísima Muerte: The Most Holy Death

La Señora de las Sombras: The Lady of the Shadows

La Señora Negra: The Black Lady

Santa Sebastiana: St. Sebastienne

Symbolism:

Boney/Skeletal Physique: Her skeletal figure is associated with death.

Cloak: Invisibility as Death's constant prescence. (Magic involving protection and safety often emphasizes her cloak during spell-work.)

Halo: Divinity

Hourglass: Death's dominion over time.

Lamp: Wisdom and guidance.

Owl: Wisdom, the night, and the omen of death in Mexican folklore.

Scales: Balance, she is neutral and unjudging but we should also balance our lives accordingly.

Scythe: Harvesting souls; reap what you sow.

World Globe: Dominion over all life on earth.

Colors:

Black: (default color of her cloak) Protection magick and hexes.

White: (Other cloak default color) Purification.

Red: Sex-magick, Romantic-love, Passion

Green: Legal/Court-Magick, Self-love, Healing(autoimmune), Justice

Blue: Wisdom-magick, Mental Clairty, Communication, Knowledge.

Purple: Healing, Transformational, Third-eye,

Brown: Grounding, Transitional

Rainbow: Silver = luck, Copper = breaking of negative energies, Gold = abundance/prosperity, Red = love/sex, Blue = wisdom/connection to spirituality, Green = justice, Purple = health/transformative thinking. (One specific spell targeting all aspects)

[smashorpassgilf]

[monstergirlgang]

Monster Girl October Tarot day 21: La Llorona from poems, songs, and tales as the 5 of cups card!

The 5 of cups evokes sadness, loss, loneliness, and regret. La Llorona was the best fit for the card given her stories' focus on her being betrayed by her husband, killing their children, and regretting the act. She is said to haunt bodies of water, weeping for her children, and will steal others to drown as well.

[inogart]

Drawtober No. 2 Shapeshifter Autopsy of a Nahual, a sort of sorcerer that can change into the form of an animal. His companion animal will be looking for sweet revenge.

patreon / ko-fi / cara / bluesky

[00waywardalma00]

E-offering for Santa Muerte. 🌹💀🌹

Ofrenda electrónica para La Santa Muerte.🌹💀🌹

[proxentauri]

been on a traditional art kick lately bc i’m still getting eye strain and dizziness looking at screens :(( im sry yall for the lack of progress on the digital projects i was working on…

i definitely miss digital and i hope im able to draw again soon but it’s nice also to be able to layer pens like this. anyway here’s a chupacabra i drew for my friend who requested it! i’m quite happy with how it turned out given how out of practice i am with inks!

[theaskew]

Ileana Magoda (Mexican, 1985, lives and works in Queretaro, Mexico.), I wish this night will never end, 2024. Acrylic and oil pastel on linen, 195 x 175 x 2.5 cm. | 76 3/4 x 68 7/8 x 1 in. (Source: Bernheim Gallery, Zurich and London)

[flwrkid14]

The Weight of Stories in the Infinite Realms

Danny has always known ghosts were shaped by their obsessions. That’s Ghost 101. The more powerful the emotion, the stronger the ghost. Desire. Rage. Guilt. They don’t just linger—they define.

But legends? Legends are something else entirely.

Ghosts are remnants of the people they were. Even the worst of them—the ones twisted beyond recognition—still have that core, that personhood. You can track their past, their cause, their tether to the living world.

Legends don’t have that.

Legends are built from belief.

Danny’s seen it before, how stories spread through the Infinite Realms like wildfire, how whispers in the dark can manifest into something real. It’s not just the ghosts of the dead who take shape in the Realms—it’s the things that never lived in the first place. The things that shouldn’t exist but do because people believe in them.

Slenderman. The Black-Eyed Children. The Vanishing Hitchhiker. Stories people made up and told so many times that the Infinite Realms listened.

Danny once stumbled across the Headless Horseman galloping through the Ghost Zone like he belonged there. He wasn’t the ghost of some long-dead soldier—he was the story of the Horseman, made real. Danny half-wonders if there are multiple versions of him, shaped by different retellings. Maybe one with a pumpkin head, maybe another wielding a fiery sword.

Because that’s the thing about legends. They evolve.

And that’s what makes them dangerous.

Normal ghosts are predictable. You can track their origins, find the moment of their death, figure out what makes them tick. But legends? How do you fight something that exists only because people think it does?

You can’t reason with a legend. You can’t find its unfinished business and solve it. You can’t lay it to rest. It doesn’t want rest. It doesn’t want anything—it just is.

That’s why La Llorona was different.

Danny and Tim went to Mexico expecting a ghost. A vengeful spirit. Maybe a lost soul. But when Danny reached for his ghost sense, it flickered uncertainly, confused, like even the Realms weren’t sure what she was.

Because she wasn’t just a ghost. She was a story given form.

Her obsession wasn’t personal—it was collective. It was every mother who had lost a child, every whisper of warning passed down through generations, every child who grew up afraid of hearing her cry. Her entire existence was built on belief.

And you can’t exorcise belief.

Danny’s fought a lot of things, but how do you fight something shaped by the weight of a million voices? By centuries of fear? How do you kill a story when the world itself is determined to keep telling it?

…Maybe you don’t.

Maybe, instead of fighting a legend, you change the story.

[printabledesignrf]

Cute Mexican folk art clip art

[bush-or-bald]

La Llarona (Mexican Folklore): Bush or Bald?

She's way too hard on the sad girl shit to even think about making choices down there.

Verdict: bush

[maro-inku]

I didn't have free time to publish my inktober in October.

I will upload what I did in the next ones, the list is from wakarelas, a Mexican brand of watercolors, they have a good catalog of colors, I highly recommend them.

The list is of items related to Mexican culture and folklore, feel free to ask if you are curious

[eddiebabygirldiaz]

if anyone knows anything or has any sources regarding demons/demonic-like creatures in mexican folklore pleeeease hmu, dm me, send an ask, whatever :)