| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
120 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Jacalteca Indians -- Folklore.
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Animals -- Folklore.
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| ISBN |
091530693X 22.95 |
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