The tale of Merida in Mexico is an old Spanish legend. The story is also known as “La Llorona”. The account is about a woman, Merida, whose husband was killed. Her body was hidden under a bridge in the town centre to rot and get eaten by animals. This never happened, and people began to see Merida’s ghost walking back and forth near the bridge at night. She could be seen crying with her dress all torn from one end to the other side, looking for her children or someone who would listen to what she had to say about what she went through before she died.

My father told me this story was told to me by my father, who heard it from his father, who heard it from the town doctor. The story is a true legend that happened in a small town in Mexico. The only thing is that he wasn’t there to see Merida in Mexico, and he doesn’t know if she still goes back and forth near the bridge every night.

The legend happened in a small village called Jalapa de Diaz in Veracruz, Mexico. The story didn’t happen in any other place than this town, and nobody else has heard about or seen this unhuman ghost-looking woman walking the streets of Jalapa de Diaz at night.

There was a young woman named Maria. She was the wife of Juan Merida, a widower, and Juan had no children. Once he died, his widow took in one of their tenants as her child, but these days this is not considered to be very honourable, nor is it customary in Mexico.

The young widow had a lover named Pedro who lived with her after Juan’s death because Pedro worked at her family-owned ranch. She inherited all of the property from Juan when he died, including all his belongings and land. After a year or two, he did not want to live there anymore and asked her to let him go back to the ground where he came from. This was not a problem because she had no land, and she did not want him to be away from her. He lived with her for two years, and he became very fond of her daughter Marisol, an only child. Pedro then abandoned his life with the widow, but Merida never forgot him and always cried at night, wishing that he would come back to her and ask her to marry him.

Merida was, above all else, a woman who loved children very much. She went out into the fields searching for any child that might have been lost or abandoned and brought them home to Juan’s house, where she forced Juan’s daughter Marisol to live with them in return for working for them.

When Merida died, Juan’s property reverted to him, and the widow had to leave her house since it was not his. She went to another town where Pedro lived with another woman and asked him to care for Marisol. He agreed even though he now had two children of his own in his house, but not too much later, and he realized that Marisol was not getting enough food, and he didn’t know how he could provide for her. He decided to sell her as an enslaved person.

After Pedro sold Marisol, Merida became very sad because she never meant things to turn out this way for the poor orphaned girl.