History. Spirit. Place.
Join your host, Adrianne Montoya, and explore the darker side of the folklore and history of the American Southwest.
All tagged #southwestgothic
Jesus Malverde, the Angel of the Poor, the Generous Bandit, was hanged from a mesquite tree in May 1909 and left to rot. The Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910, and Malverde might well have been forgotten in chaos, if it hadn’t been for the miracles.
You can’t judge someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Or in Jean Baptiste’s case, walked around in the suit he stole off a corpse.
Death is impartial, Death is fair. And so La Santa Muerte is the patron saint of those no other saint wants to patronize.
