This is a concise but comprehensive collection of old and mythical tales about Mexico City, one of the biggest cities in the world and the descendant of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. From the preface: " These legends of the City of Mexico are of my finding, not of my making. They are genuine folk-stories. Each one of them is a true folk-growth from some obscure curious or tragical ancient matter that, taking hold upon the popular imagination, has had built up from it among the people a story satisfying to the popular heart. Many of them simply are historical traditions gone wrong: being...