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Puro Mexicano (PTFS 12-1935). J. Frank Dobie, ed.

Table of Contents


Prefatory Wisdom -- The Editor

v

I



A Pack Load of Mexican Tales -- Riley Aiken
  • A Time for Everything
  • Repaying Good with Evil
  • The Three Counsels
  • La Cucaracha
  • Sister Fox and Brother Coyote
  • El Pájaro Cú
  • The Parrot Tale-Teller
  • The Faithful Lion
  • Truthful John
  • The Two Compadres
  • A Boom in Guarache Leather
  • Charge This to the Cap
  • Treason in Saints
  • Baldheads
  • Juan Pelón
  • Pedro de Urdemalas
  • Keeping the Shirt-Tail In
  • El Borracho del Bahía
  • Wine and the Devil
  • Blanca Flor
  • The Tooth of Gold
  • The Dog That Ran to the Moon
  • La Madrina Muerte
  • Juan Oso
  • The Son of Tata Pescador
  • Ua-pa-chi (Kickapoo Tales)


1

The Wonderful Chirrionera -- Dan Storm

88

Br'erCoyote -- Sarah S. McKellar

101

The Bullet-Swallower -- Jovita Gonzalez

107

Tales from San Elizario -- Josefina Escajeda
  • The Witch of Cenecú
  • Doña Carolina Learns a Lesson
  • La Casa de la Labor
  • Agapito Brings a Treat
  • A Hanged Man Sends Rain

115

The Metamorphosis of a Folk Tale -- Elizabeth W. DeHuff

122

How the Tehuana Women Became Handsome -- H.M. Taylor

135

The Flaming Flower -- Catherine J. Stoker

143

Juan García Goes to Heaven -- Frost Woodhull

152

The Eagle Lover -- Bertha McKee Dobie

159

Legends from Durango -- Everardo Gamiz
(Translation by Bertha McKee Dobie)
  • Sacrifice Mountain
  • The Virgin of the Valley
  • El Señor de los Guerreros
  • El Señor del Rebozo
  • El Llorón
  • El Naranjal


162

Holy Ghost Canyon -- Maude McFie Bloom

175

Old-Time New Mexican Usages -- Alice M. Crook

184

Sons of the Devil -- Joe Storm

190

Catorce -- J. Frank Dobie

194

The Little White Dog -- Hugh McGehee Taylor

201

Ranchero Sayings of the Border -- Howard D. Wesley

211

Songs of the Mexican Migration -- Paul S. Taylor

221

The Enchanted City of Monte Albán -- E.R. Sims

246

The Texas Folk-Lore Society

250

Contributors

253

Index

256