In the face of its possible disappearance: Memory is a Swamp, is the appropriation and re-invention of La Cornuda de Tlacotalpan legend in Veracruz, Mexico. Through the community imagination and mine. We went involving memories to re-inventing the tale in a collective, playful, and participative reconstruction. Trying to create a new life for this legend so it can survive before the swamp of memory will cover it.