Thanks for the angels look after me.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
— tagged with “monsters”
Thanks for the angels look after me.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Vulmaro Ramirez thanks with this retablo for saving him from the attack of the crocodile girl who got in my house and scared me.
Mexico, July 11, 1974
Retablo by Rafael Rodriguez Contreras
Three beings came to my house. With a broom and your help, Holy Virgin, they were gone.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
The girl Lucy walks around with her freakish animal. Thanks for she’s not crazy.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
In the last months, my daughter had horrible nightmares. She used to wake up frightened and crying. I was praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe so that she’d deliver my girl from those scary dreams. Few days after, my daughter stopped seeing them. Now she sleeps calmly and wakes up fresh and happy. I thank the Holy Virgin.
Retablo by Luz Cadena
My fiancé came to visit me. He brought his musicians, and we danced till the dawn. Thanks for he didn’t take me with him.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
I found an egg, and suddenly a hand of a monster showed out of it. I thank for the whole monster didn’t get out.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
A giant animal came at night. We gave him some food and he left without doing any harm.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
My puppy was born with three heads. Thanks for it has made it to adulthood.
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
My friend Camilo and I were coming back after having few drinks in the town. We had bad luck to cross our path with a horrible creature come from the hell. We weren’t sure if it was a demon, a witch or a ghost, but it looked very threatening. We thank the Virgin of Zapopan who covered us with her mantle so the creature passed by without noticing us. After that we set off at full gallop to home.
Retablo by Selva Prieto Salazar
After many nights spent guarding, Guadalupe Gomez M. finally caught and enchained a cadejo (woman nagual) that used to kill and stole her animals. The cadejo looked like a pig. Guadalupe tied her with a special magic rope made of horse hair so she wouldn’t run away, because it was long after midnight. Early at the morning this pig started to scream and tried to escape, because it began to turn into human with sunrise. Her skin began to fall down. It meant that her end was near. Guadalupe thanks the Virgin of Guadalupe for help.
It happened on March 21, 1908, at the Echegaray village, Pijijiapan, Chiapas.
Retablo by Adan Pacheco
A strange lady fell in love with me. Help me Virgin.
Luis P., 1971
Retablo by Miguel Hernández
Roberta Navas met the Spider Woman. She wanted to take me to her cave but I hid myself and ran away.
Zacatecas — July 10, 1939
Retablo by Rafael Rodriguez Contreras