Xtabay

La Xtabay (Spanish pronunciation: [la iʃ.taˈβaj]) is a Yucatec Maya folklore tale about a demonic femme fatale who preys upon men in the Yucatán Peninsula.^[1] She is said to dwell in the forest to lure men to their deaths with her incomparable beauty.^[2] She is described as having beautiful, shining black hair that falls down to her ankles and wearing a white dress.^[3] One of the most accepted versions of the myth comes from a book, Diez Leyendas Mayas (1998), written by Jesus Azcorra Alejos.^[4]

^ Romero, Rolando (2014-05-14). Feminism, Nation and Myth: La Malinche. Arte Publico Press. p. 135. ISBN 9781611920420.
^ Starr, Frederick (1904). "Notes upon the ethnography of southern Mexico: expedition of 1901". Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences. 9: 63–172.
^ Preuss, Mary H. (1985). "Vestiges of the Past: The Role of the Grandmother in Contemporary Yucatec Literature". Wíčazo Ša Review. 1 (2): 1–10. doi:10.2307/1409116. JSTOR 1409116.
^ Romans, Dorothy Jennifer (2013). The siren of syzygy: A textual hermeneutic study of the embrace of the anima/animus in Yucatec Maya culture as seen through the myth of La Xtabay (Thesis). pp. 6, 11, 43–47, 60. ProQuest 1461758952.

[1] Romero, Rolando (2014-05-14). Feminism, Nation and Myth: La Malinche. Arte Publico Press. p. 135. ISBN 9781611920420.

[Starr1904-2] Starr, Frederick (1904). "Notes upon the ethnography of southern Mexico: expedition of 1901". Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences. 9: 63–172.

[Preuss_1985-3] Preuss, Mary H. (1985). "Vestiges of the Past: The Role of the Grandmother in Contemporary Yucatec Literature". Wíčazo Ša Review. 1 (2): 1–10. doi:10.2307/1409116. JSTOR 1409116.

[Roman_2013-4] Romans, Dorothy Jennifer (2013). The siren of syzygy: A textual hermeneutic study of the embrace of the anima/animus in Yucatec Maya culture as seen through the myth of La Xtabay (Thesis). pp. 6, 11, 43–47, 60. ProQuest 1461758952.

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