Title: Mexican folk tales /
Authors: Campos, Anthony John.
Date: 1977
Publisher: University of Arizona Press,
Physical description: 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Presents folktales of Jalisco, Mexico, dealing with saints, sinners, men, and beasts.
Contents: Legends of the devil. Juan fetches the devil ; The rich ranchero's maguey fence ; The devil does a good deed ; The pulque vendor tricks the devil ; The priest goes down to hell -- The strange doings of saints. Señor San Antonio retrieves an axe ; Pedro de Ordinales goes to heaven ; A farmer learns a lesson ; The woman who was saved by a miracle ; A stranger comes to León ; Help for a mule caravan ; The cripple and señor San Antonio ; The old woman and el Señor ; The Santo Niño saves a friendship ; The Santo Niño visits a prison -- The foibles of man and beast. It's the pichilingis again ; The reason for turtles ; My godmother's story of buried treasure ; Three challenges for King Solomon ; The farmer who listened to his livestock ; The poor rich man's son gets a second change ; A reward for honesty ; A fiendish compadre gets caught ; A lesson from a lovelorn cow ; A tale of love ; Two sisters and a harlot ; The sabio sees a cow.
Subject headings (LCSH): Tales--Mexico--Jalisco.