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Zuñi Folk Tales

Frank Hamilton Cushing

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. . .Pg 56] which they had been duly invited by the other villagers, and heard them talking and laughing merrily at the prospect of the coming holiday. So, as she went about with her Turkeys through the day, she would talk to them, though she never dreamed that they understood a word of what she was saying.

It seems that they did understand even more than she said to them, for on the fourth day, after the people of Mátsaki had all departed toward Zuñi and the girl was wandering around the plains alone with her Turkeys, one of the big Gobblers strutted up to her, and making a fan of his tail, and skirts, as it were, of his wings, blushed with pride and puffed with importance, stretched out his neck and said: “Maiden mother, we know what your thoughts are, and truly we pity you, and wish that, like the other people of Mátsaki, you might enjoy this holiday in the town below. We have said to ourselves at night, after you have placed us safely and com. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Cushing was an ethnologist who spent a great amount of time among the insular Zuni around the turn of the 20th C. Here he presents a sympathetic rendition of a rich and strange tradition of folk-lore and mythology, providing a fascinating glimpse into the world and views of a proud, ancient culture

I don't know if it's primarily because I'm too familiar with the styled by now or if it's a genuine difference in this collection, but I can't say that the stories were quite as strange as I was hoping it would be based on the few Zuni entries in the Storytelling Stone collection. Few of these stori

Great food for the imagination in preparation for another New Mexico trip.