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Old October 10, 2008, 06:16 PM
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Naked babies in Mexico

Okay! Is there a superstition in Mexico that has to do with aloof babies (naked, of course) that live in fields, bushes, trees, etc? They reach out and tug on your pants leg. I was also told that if you are on a river and if the babies are in the trees that they throw things at you. "What do they want?" I asked. "For you to play with them" was the reply. I was also told they were "all over Mexico"., Any body heard of this? Sandy
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No, never. How could they live in trees anyway???

I agree that this is very weird. Is it real?

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Old October 10, 2008, 06:29 PM
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I'm SURE the babies are not real but the superstition may be.
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what do you mean the superstition is real?? the babies aren't but doesn't that mean the superstition isn't real either? I don't believe in superstitions.
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I mean that those people who believe it - it's real to them. Its a real superstitions - Superstitions themselves not being real.
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Maybe I should say "folklore" instead of superstition.
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I've never heard of this bit of folklore. Might it have something to do with La Llorona?
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Never heard of that!

La Llorona legend talks of a woman who drowned her children in the river and the river swept them away. Now she will spend the rest of eternity looking for them........many, many people claim they have heard the cries of the Llorona.

BUT.....I've never heard of the naked babies folklore. I will ask around!

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I mean that those people who believe it - it's real to them. Its a real superstitions - Superstitions themselves not being real.
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I think in traditional folklore of mostly every country sooner or later you'll find a frightening story with fairies, elfs, witches, ghosts...
Mexico is obviously not the exception, and we have a lot of scary stories to tell.

In this case, although for each region these beings have a different name and their own legend (and must I say I'm no expert), the common feature is that there are some playful creatures (children spirits, goblins, little demons) that come and do mischief just for fun. Most of them are commonly blamed for domestic disturbances like opening drawers in the house, soiling recently washed clothes, breaking objects, etc.
In some of these stories, they can be kept "well-behaved" by doing simple things like offering them a toy, reciting specific sentences, and so on.

And like in every spooky story, there will be some who will believe it and some who will make their best theatrical performance to scare the foreigner.


@Tomisimo: La Llorona is quite different. While little demons "interact" with everyone at any hour of the day, for what I've known, La Llorona is mostly harmless for women and children, and only appears at night.
In many regions she's blamed for luring men into precipices or cause them all kinds of accidents to kill them. Many men who "declare" to have seen her (and survived), talk about a very beautiful long-haired woman dressed in white, with no feet, hitchhiking along solitary roads. So, if you're asked for a ride, check if the woman has feet; if she doesn't, don't stop the car and speed away.
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