Hello! I haven't written anything in a while, but I've got something interesting now!
A book has recently been published here in Mexico, that speaks about the ghost of Emperor Maximilian! The book is called "GuÃa de fantasmas bicentenarios", (Guide to bicentenary ghosts, because of the 200th anniversary of Mexico's independence, coming up in September) and it is completely dedicated to ghosts from famous peple.
I'll put the passage here and then the translation:
"Desde entonces, 1867, muchas personas vecinas o visitantes de la bella ciudad de Cuernavaca comentaban que en la casa Borda, antiguo refugio de veranos de los infortunados emperadores de México, suelen escucharse suspiros, canto y llanto de una mujer. Algunos veladores o trabajadores del sitio narran que han visto vaporosas figuras femeninas transitar furtivamente, pero sobre todo, parecen huir de una mujer vestida de india, que muy abatida se seca el llanto con un pañuelo, mientras camina lentamente por entre los jardines hasta fundirse, desvaneciéndose, entre las flores y enredaderas.
En excepcionales ocasiones, cuando hay noche de noviluno, y la oscuridad envuelve el tranquilo y siempre florecido jardÃn, eventualmente se p uede mirar una pareja de jóvenes que apenas se distinguen, pero se adivinan extraordinariamente hermosos y muy enamorados, deslizándose, entrelazados, por entre los andadores del jardÃn o de alguna plaza cercana. Nadie que los haya visto puede decir que no estaban vivos, o que no se tratara de una difusa pareja, vista en la distancia. El es muy alto, ella menuda.
También desde entonces, afirma una leyenda que cada vez que una pareja feliz visita Cuernavaca, cuando pasean por algún bello jardÃn después de la hora veinticinco, o mejor todavÃa, si visitan los jardines de la Casa Borda, podrán tener la visión."
"Since then, 1867, many neighbors and visitors of the beautiful city of Cuernavaca, say, that at the Casa Borda, old summer house to the emperors of Mexico, sighs, singing and crying coming from a woman can be heard. Some night guards or workers, say that they have seen female figures fleeing from a woman dressed as a native, who, distraught, dries her tears with a handkerchief, while walking slowly until mixing with the flowers and plants.
On exceptional ocassions, when there is a new moon night, when darkness envelopes tranquility, eventually one can see a pair of young lovers that can barely be seen, but that one can tell, are extraordinarily beautiful and very much in love, walking hand in hand in the surroundings of the gardens or a nearby plaza. No person that has seen them can say that they were not alive, one would say that they were a blurry couple seen from afar. He is very tall, she is short.
Also, since then, leyend has it, that whenever a happy couple visits Cuernavaca, while strolling through a beautiful garden at the early hours, or even better, if they visit the gardens of the Casa Borda, they may see them."
This passage refers to Concepción Sedano, Maximilian's mistress in Cuernavaca. It is unclear whether what her connection with the gardener was, no one knows if it was his wife or his daughter, but apparently Maximilian fell deeply in love with her.
Interesting, isn't it?
