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Overview

This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of materials, ranging from the simplest recording of single items, like anecdotes, folk remedies or sayings, through the skillfully retold primitive legend, to the scientific, though quite idiomatic, anthropological report, and to the scholarly analysis of the philosophy of the folk. The theme and hero of the volume, Old Man Coyote, is animal and folk character. Indian legends are well represented in Coyote Wisdom, a Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781574410884
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Publication date: 06/01/2000
Series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society Series , #14
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964) was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas. In 1922, he became secretary of the Texas Folklore Society and held the post for 21 years.



Mody C. Boatright (1896–1970) served as Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society for twenty years. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Teas, where he taught for four decades. His contributions to folklore study and the Texas Folklore Society are innumerable.



Harry H. Ransom (1908–1976), University of Texas English Professor, was appointed associate editor of TFS in 1938. He later became president of UT and then chancellor.

Table of Contents

Pertinences and Patrons5
The Little Animals of Mexico8
El Coyote, the Doves, and the Dogs8
The Coyote and Juan's Maguey18
Mr. Coyote and the Two Sheep21
Senor Coyote Acts as Judge24
Judging Between Lions27
Senor Coyote and Senor Fox32
Paisano Saves Rabbit from Rattlesnake34
The Coyote: Animal and Folk-Character36
Pueblo Versions of Old World Tales104
The Turkey Girl105
Beauty and the Beast107
Cliff-Dweller, the Blue Beard109
The Giant-Killer Twins114
The Pueblo Tar Baby Story118
The Coyote's Moon-Child120
Fox-Woman and Bear-Woman121
Navajo Creation Myths127
Coyote the Sly Trickster127
The Creation of the Navajos131
Trubble, Brudder Alligator, Trubble135
Philosophy in Folk-Lore145
Comic Exempla in the Pioneer Pulpit155
Running Down the Fool Killer169
Legend Making on the Concho174
Pie-Biter185
The Wart Doctor192
Traditional Nacogdoches195
The Snap Party in Mills County200
Christmasing with the Tarahumaras207
Marihuana: A Story of Its Curse225
Mexican Folk-Escapades and Tales234
Cuerpo sin Alma (Note by A. L. Campa)241
Tales to Tell251
The Miller and the Devil251
The Poopampareno252
Roy Bean as Coroner254
The Toe Wiggled256
A True Story of Buried Gold259
Paisano Tracks262
Hugo: The Giant Unkillable Bull Frog262
Paul Bunyan: Oil Man263
Windy Yesterdays264
Sand Storm Yarns266
Old-Time Remedies from Madison County267
Home Remedies from Scurry County268
Note on Frontier Journalism268
An English Source of "The Trail to Mexico"270
"There Were Three (Two) Crows"280
I.Samuel E. Asbury280
IIAlice Atkinson Neighbors282
Contributors284
Proceedings of the Texas Folk-Lore Society289
Index293
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