Creepy creatures and other cucuys
By: Xavier Garza.
Publisher: Piñata Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Tales -- Texas.; Folklore -- Texas.
Description: Presents the author's retellings of fifteen traditional tales heard during his childhood in southern Texas.
Table of contents: title: What is a cucuy?; title: Duendes; title: Another duende story; title: Las lechuzas versus El Curandero; title: Lechuza lady; title: The Onion House; title: La Llorona; title: Another version of La Llorona story; title: The vanishing hitchhiker; title: The severed hand's revenge; title: The haunted train tracks of San Antonio; title: The handsome stranger; title: The burning ghost; title: The Donkey Lady; title: El Big Bird; title: The chupacabras.