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Latin American folktales: stories from Hispanic and Indian traditions
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication Date
c2002
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
Prologue: Early Colonial Legends
1. Montezuma / Nahua (Mexico)
I. Talking Stone
II. Montezuma's Wound
III. Eight Omens
IV. Return of Quetzalcoatl
V. Is It You?
2. Legends of the Inca Kings / Quechua (Peru)
I. Mayta Capac
II. Storm
III. Vanishing Bride
IV. Messenger in Black
V. Oracle at Huamachuco
3. Bringing Out the Holy Word / Mexico (Nahua)
Folktales: A Twentieth-Century Wake
4. In the City of Benjamin / Ecuador
5. Antuco's Luck / Chile
6. Don Dinero and Dona Fortuna / Dominican Republic
7. Mistress Lucia / Mexico
8. St. Peter's Wishes / Cuba
9. Coyote Teodora / Honduras
10. Buried Alive / California
11. Three Gowns / Puerto Rico
12. Horse of Seven Colors / Venezuela
13. Cow / New Mexico
14. Death and the Doctor / Dominican Republic
15. What the Owls Said / Mexico (Mazatec)
16. Aunt Misery / Puerto Rico
17. Palm-tree Story / Colombia
18. Pedro de Urdemalas
I. Letter Carrier from the Other World / Chile
II. King's Pigs / Guatemala
III. Sack / Chile
IV. Pedro Goes to Heaven / Argentina
19. Voyage to Eternity / Bolivia
20. Mother and Daughter / Colombia
21. Bird Sweet Magic / Costa Rica
22. Death Comes as a Rooster / Cuba
23. Twelve Truths of the World / New Mexico
24. Mouse and the Dung Beetle / Colorado
25. Canon and the King's False Friend / New Mexico
26. Story That Became a Dream / Chile
27. St. Theresa and the Lord / Mexico
28. Rice from Ashes / Argentina
29. Juan Maria and Juana Maria / Guatemala
30. Witch Wife / Colombia
31. O Wicked World / Argentina
32. Three Sisters / Colombia
33. Count and the Queen / Colorado
34. Crystal the Wise / Chile
35. Love Like Salt / Mexico
36. Pongo's Dream / Peru (Quechua)
37. Fox and the Monkey / Bolivia (Aymara)
38. Miser's Jar / Guatemala (Kekchi Maya)
39. Tup and the Ants / Mexico (Yucatec Maya)
40. Master and His Pupil / Guatemala
41. Louse-Drum / Panama
42. Three Dreams / Guatemala
43. Clump of Basil / Puerto Rico
44. Charcoal Peddler's Chicken / Puerto Rico
45. Three Counsels / New Mexico
46. Seven Blind Queens / Chile
47. Mad King / Florida
48. Mother's Curse / Puerto Rico
49. Hermit and the Drunkard / Ecuador
50. Noblewoman's Daughter and the Charcoal Woman's Son / Cuba
51. Enchanted Cow / Chile
52. Judas's Ear / New Mexico
53. Good Is Repaid with Evil / Venezuela
54. Fisherman's Daughter / Colombia
55. In the Beginning / Mexico (Mazatec)
56. How the First People Were Made / Mexico (Zapotec)
57. Adam's Rib / Mexico (Popoluca)
58. Adam and Eve and Their Children / New Mexico (Isleta)
59. God's Letter to Noeh / Mexico (Zapotec)
60. God Chooses Noah / Mexico (Mixe)
61. Flood / Mixe (Mexico)
62. Prophetic Dream / Mexico (Mazatec)
63. White Lily / Ecuador (Quichua)
64. Night in the Stable / Guatemala (Quiche Maya)
65. When Morning Came
I. Why Did It Dawn? / Mexico (Nahua)
II. That Was the Principal Day / Mexico (Tzotzil Maya)
66. Three Kings / New Mexico (Isleta)
67. Christ Child as Trickster / Ecuador (Quichua)
68. Christ Saved by the Firefly / Cakchiquel Maya (Guatemala)
69. Christ Betrayed by Snails / Belize (Kekchi Maya)
70. Christ Betrayed by the Magpie-jay / Mexico (Tzotzil Maya)
71. Blind Man at the Cross / Mexico (Mazatec)
72. Cricket, the Mole, and the Mouse / Mexico (Mazatec)
73. As If with Wings / Mexico (Mazatec)
74. Slowpoke Slaughtered Four / Puerto Rico
75. Price of Heaven and the Rain of Caramels / Mexico
76. Pine Cone the Astrologer / Panama
77. Dragon Slayer / Mexico
78. Johnny-boy / Nicaragua
79. Rarest Thing / Guatemala
80. Prince Simpleheart / Costa Rica
81. Flower of Lily-Lo / Mexico
82. My Garden Is Better Than Ever / Mexico (Popoluca)
83. Juan Bobo and the Pig / Puerto Rico
84. Parrot Prince / Chile
85. Dead Man Speaks / Texas
86. Bear's Son / Honduras (Lenca)
87. Charity / Argentina
88. Riches Without Working / Mexico (Nahua)
89. Let Somebody Buy You Who Doesn't Know You / Guatemala
90. Mouse King / Bolivia
91. Mariquita Grim and Mariquita Fair / Cuba
92. Compadre's Dinner / Dominican Republic
93. Hog / Colorado
94. Two Sisters / Puerto Rico
95. Ghosts' Reales / Dominican Republic
96. Bad Compadre / Guatemala (Cakchiquel Maya)
97. Black Chickens / Mexico (Tepecano)
98. Doublehead / El Salvador (Pipil)
99. Littlebit / Chile
100. Rosalie / Mexico (Yucatec Maya)
101. Day Laborer Goes to Work / Mexico (Otomi)
102. Moth / Peru (Quechua)
103. Earth Ate Them / Argentina
Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Myths
104. Why Tobacco Grows Close to Houses / Kogi (Colombia)
105. Buzzard Husband / Tzotzil Maya (Mexico)
106. Dead Wife / Miskito (Nicaragua)
107. Romi Kumu Makes the World / Barasana (Colombia)
108. She Was Thought and Memory / Kogi (Colombia)
109. Was It Not an Illusion? / Witoto (Colombia)
110. Beginning Life of the Hummingbird / Mbya Guarani (Paraguay)
111. Ibis Story / Yamana (Chile)
112. Condor Seeks a Wife / Quechua (Bolivia)
113. Priest's Son Becomes an Eagle / Zuni (New Mexico)
114. Revolt of the Utensils / Tacana (Bolivia)
115. Origin of Permanent Death / Shuar (Ecuador).
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