According to the legend, a mexican artist called Pedro Linares, had a nightmare where a lot of monsters (like hens with rinho heads and lion feet) shout to him “Alebrijes, alebrijes!”. He started to create these monsters with paperboard in 1936 until his death in 1992. Becoming very popular in Mexico, a lot of people create alebrijes for their homes.

Since 2007, every year, the Popular Art Museum, organize the “Monumental alebrijes parade” where a lot of people create their own monsters and introduce them little papers with their dreams or nightmares so the monster can eat them. At the end of the parade, they exhibit them on the most popular street of Mexico City: Reforma avenue. I took some pictures on these mexican monsters last halloween, so you can see how we start to celebrate the Day of Death at Mexico City.