{"id":826513,"date":"2026-05-27T23:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826513\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:16:19","slug":"panel-discussion-will-examine-san-antonios-complicated-donkey-lady-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/826513\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel discussion will examine San Antonio&#8217;s complicated Donkey Lady legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"409001\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.sacurrent.com\/arts\/things-to-do\/panel-discussion-will-examine-san-antonios-complicated-donkey-lady-legend\/attachment\/donkey-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sacurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Donkey.jpg?fit=999%2C666&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"999,666\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Donkey\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;The Donkey Lady: A Graphic Parable by Carmen Tafolla is Aztlan Libre Press\u2019 17th book. &lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The Donkey Lady: A Graphic Parable by Carmen Tafolla is Aztlan Libre Press\u2019 17th book. &lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sacurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Donkey.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Donkey.jpg\" alt=\"The Donkey Lady: A Graphic Parable by Carmen Tafolla is Aztlan Libre Press' 17th book. \" class=\"wp-image-409001\"  \/>The Donkey Lady: A Graphic Parable by Carmen Tafolla is Aztlan Libre Press\u2019 17th book.  Credit: Courtesy Photo \/ Aztlan Libre Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Thursday, San Antonio\u2019s World Heritage Center will host a discussion and book-release celebration centered around one of the city\u2019s most ominous fables: the Donkey Lady.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussion will include the author, illustrator and publisher of the new children\u2019s and young-adult book The Donkey Lady: A Graphic Parable (Aztlan Libre Press), which examines the enduring local legend of a horribly scarred woman who haunts the area around a South Side bridge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ask enough Alamo City residents, and you\u2019re unlikely to receive the same version of the story twice. Some trace the woman\u2019s origins to a grisly farm murder at the hands of her husband. Some blame a stranger in the night. Others don\u2019t necessarily have a suspect pinned down but believe she emerged in her current form after being drowned beside her domesticated donkey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The legend of the Donkey Lady is just as complicated as her origin story, according to the new title\u2019s author, Carmen Tafolla, a former San Antonio and Texas Poet Laureate and the author of more than 40 books. She will be joined for Thursday\u2019s discussion by illustrator Thelma Ortiz-Muraida and publisher Juan Tejeda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Donkey Lady: A Graphic Parable calls the premise of the entire legend into question. Even if La Callada is a \u201cmonstrosity,\u201d does that necessarily make her evil? Why exactly does she haunt the bridge, and what goes unsaid in our retellings? Is she more human than we\u2019ve been led to believe?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selected portions of the book will be on view through Tuesday, June 2, for those who miss the discussion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free, 6-8 p.m. Thursday, May 28, World Heritage Center, 3106 Roosevelt Ave., (210) 207-2111, www.worldheritagesa.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacurrent.com\/sanantonio\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sign Up for SA Current newsletters.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/TiFMu3wPkRj6PC4xS5L36bg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqKAgKIiJDQklTRXdnTWFnOEtEWE5oWTNWeWNtVnVkQzVqYjIwb0FBUAE?hl=en-US&amp;gl=US&amp;ceid=US%3Aen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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