Research Catalog

Title

The Bird who cleans the world : and other Mayan fables / Victor Montejo ; translated by Wallace Kaufman.

Author

Montejo, Víctor, 1951-

Publication

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press ; East Haven, CT : Distributed by InBook, 1991.

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Description

120 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Animals > Folklore
• Jacalteca Indians > Folklore

Note

• An illustration of the author's thesis (M.S.)--SUNY, Albany, 1989.

Contents

The bird who cleans the world -- From mouse to bat -- The affair of the horns -- How the serpent was born -- The first monkeys -- Sometimes right is repaid with wrong -- The disobedient child -- The tail of the dog -- The toad and the buzzard -- The toad and the crab -- The proof of the mice -- Laziness should not rule us -- Advice from a jackass -- Who cuts the trees cuts his own life -- The ungrateful alligator -- The little boy who talked with birds -- The child who saw visions -- The snail and the minnow -- The curious mice -- The work of the mosquito -- The war of the wasps -- The king of the animals -- The loudmouth and death -- The hen and the frog -- The man and the buzzard -- The vulture and the sparrow hawk -- The buzzard and the dove -- The possum and the jaguar -- The lazy man -- The great jaguar -- The skunk and the rabbit -- The old ones' friendship: the dog, the jaguar, and the coyote.

ISBN

091530693X :

LCCN

90052757

OCLC

ocm24577581

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries