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Latin American folktales : stories from Hispanic and Indian traditions /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Bierhorst, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, ©2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Pantheon fairy tale & folklore library.
Subjects:
Hispanic Americans > Folklore.
Latin Americans > Folklore.
Indians > Folklore.
Tales > America.
Legends > America.
Américains d'origine latino-américaine > Folklore.
Latino-Américains > Folklore.
Peuples autochtones > Folklore.
Contes > Amérique.
Légendes > Amérique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Hispanic Americans
Indians
Latin Americans
Legends
Tales
America
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: early colonial legends
  • Montezuma
  • The talking stone
  • Montezuma's wound
  • Eight omens
  • The return of Quetzalcoatl
  • Is it you?
  • Legends of the Inca Kings
  • Mayta Capac
  • The storm
  • The vanishing bride
  • A messenger in black
  • The oracle at Huamachuco
  • Bringing out the Holy word
  • Folktales: a twentieth-century wake
  • In the city of Benjamin
  • Antuco's luck
  • Don Dinero and Doña Fortuna
  • Mistress Lucía
  • St. Peter's wishes
  • The coyote Teodora
  • Buried alive
  • The three gowns
  • The horse of seven colors
  • The cow
  • Death and the doctor
  • What the owls said
  • Aunt Misery
  • Palm-tree story
  • Pedro de Urdemalas
  • The letter carrier from the other world
  • The King's pigs
  • The sack
  • Pedro goes to heaven
  • A voyage to eternity
  • Mother and daughter
  • The bird sweet magic
  • Death comes as a rooster
  • The twelve truths of the world
  • Folk prayers
  • The mouse and the dung beetle
  • The canon and the King's false friend
  • The story that became a dream
  • St. Theresa and the lord
  • Rice from ashes
  • Juan María and Juana María
  • The witch wife
  • O wicked world
  • The three sisters
  • The count and the Queen
  • Crystal the Wise
  • Love like salt
  • The Pongo's dream
  • The fox and the monkey
  • The Miser's jar
  • Tup and the ants
  • A master and his pupil
  • The Louse-drum
  • The three dreams
  • The clump of basil
  • Riddles
  • The charcoal peddler's chicken
  • The three counsels
  • Seven blind Queens
  • The mad King
  • A mother's curse
  • The hermit and the drunkard
  • The noblewoman's daughter and the charcoal woman's son
  • The enchanted cow
  • Judas's ear
  • Good is repaid with evil
  • The fisherman's daughter
  • In the beginning
  • How the first people were made
  • Adam's rib
  • Adam and Eve and their children
  • God's letter to Noéh
  • God chooses Noah
  • The flood
  • A prophetic dream
  • The white lily
  • The night in the stable
  • When morning came
  • Why did it dawn?
  • That was the principal day
  • Three kings
  • The Chirst child as trickster
  • Christ saved by the firefly
  • Christ betrayed by snails
  • Christ betrayed by the magpie-jay
  • The blind man at the cross
  • The cricket, the mole, and the mouse
  • As if with wings
  • Slowpoke slaughtered four
  • The price of heaven and the rain of Caramels
  • Pine cone the astrologer
  • The dragon slayer
  • The rarest thing
  • Pince Simpleheart
  • The flower of Lily-Lo
  • My garden is better than ever
  • Juan Bobo and the pig
  • The parrot prince
  • A dead man speaks
  • The bear's son
  • Charity
  • Riches without working
  • Let somebody buy you who doesn't know you
  • The mouse king
  • Mariquita Grim and Mariquita Fair
  • The compadre's dinner
  • The hog
  • Two sisters
  • The ghosts' reales
  • The bad compadre
  • Black chickens
  • Doublehead
  • Littlebit
  • Rosalie
  • A day laborer goes to work
  • The moth
  • The earth ate them
  • Why tobacco grows close to houses
  • The buzzard husband
  • The dead wife
  • Romi Kumu makes the world
  • She was thought and memory
  • Was it not an illusion?
  • The beginning life of the hummingbird
  • Ibis story
  • The condor seeks a wife
  • The priest's son becomes an eagle
  • The revolt of the utensils
  • The origin of permanent death.