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Cuentos de cuanto hay = Tales from Spanish New Mexico

Title: Cuentos de cuanto hay = Tales from Spanish New Mexico / collected from the oral tradition by J. Manuel Espinosa ; edited and translated by Joe Hayes ; illustrated by William Rotsaert.
Publication: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xii, 225 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

In the summer of 1931, folklorist J. Manuel Espinosa traveled throughout northern New Mexico asking Spanish-speaking residents for cuentos de cuanto hay, tales of olden times. Espinosa's transcriptions were published in Spanish in 1937. Now storyteller Joe Hayes makes them available once again, in the original Spanish and now for the first time in English translation.
To read these stories is to enter a world where the devil may come knocking on your door and ask you to marry him and where your mule can warn you not to accept the devil's offer!

Uniform Title

Spanish folk-tales from New Mexico. English & Spanish.

Alternative Title

Tales from Spanish New Mexico

Subject

Note

"Adapted and translated from Spanish folk-tales from New Mexico, José Manuel Espinosa, Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, Vol. XXX, G.E. Steichert and Co., New York, 1937"--T.p. verso.

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Language (note)

Introductory matter in English; tales in Spanish and English in parallel columns.

Contents

The Five Rivers -- The Little Urn -- The Girl Who Was Falsely Accused -- The Silver Chest -- The Two Marias -- The Giant's House -- The Two Lost Children -- The Bird that Spoke the Truth -- The Seven Oxen -- Pajaro Verde -- Juan Pelotero -- Paloma Blanca -- Juan Osito -- The Brave Young Woman -- The Dog Made of Shell -- The Prince with the Star on his Forehead -- Saint Joseph's Advice -- The Orphan Boy -- Puseyeme -- The Horse of Seven Colors -- The Enchanted Frog -- Juan Chilili -- The Most Unusual Thing -- Prince Pajaro Verde -- Let's See What God Will Give Me -- Margaros -- Don Juanito -- The Singing Flower -- The Rich Man and the Poor Man -- Don Pedro and Don Juan -- The Doctor Who Could Cure Everything -- May They Be Stones -- Pedro de Urdemales and the King -- The Pranks of Pedro de Urdemales -- La Rame -- Pedro Jugador -- The Best Thief -- Francisco Cazador -- The Proud Girl -- The Greedy Man and the Trickster -- Pedro and the Bishop -- Juan Camison --
The Princess Who Solved Every Riddle -- The Princess Who Went to War -- Don Bernardo and Don Roldan -- The Woodcutter -- The Fool Who Was In Love -- San Rafael -- Chirlos Birlos -- The Pine Pitch Doll -- The Cat, the Rooster, and the Sheep -- The Seven-Colored Bird -- The Fox and the Coyote -- The Burro and the Coyote -- The Cricket and the Lion -- The Cow and the Little Calf.

ISBN

LCCN

97048652

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries