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Zuñi Folk Tales

LIST OF TALES

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The Trial of Lovers: or the Maiden of Mátsaki and the Red Feather 1

The Youth and his Eagle 34

The Poor Turkey Girl 54

How the Summer Birds Came 65

The Serpent of the Sea 93

The Maiden of the Yellow Rocks 104

The Foster-child of the Deer 132

The Boy Hunter who never sacrificed to the Deer he had slain: or the origin of the Society of Rattlesnakes 150

How Áhaiyúta and Mátsailéma stole the Thunder-stone and the Lightning-shaft 175

The Warrior Suitor of Moki 185

How the Coyote joined the dance of the Burrowing-owls 203

The Coyote who killed the Demon Síuiuki: or why Coyotes run their noses into deadfalls 215

How the Coyotes tried to steal the Children of the Sacred Dance 229

The Coyote and the Beetle 235

How the Coyote danced with the Blackbirds 237

How the Turtle out hunting duped the Coyote 243

The Coyote and the Locust 255

The Coyote and the Ravens who raced their eyes 262

The Prairie-dogs and their priest, the Burrowing-owl 269

How the Gopher raced with the runners of K’iákime 277

How the Rattlesnakes came to be what they are 285

How the Corn-pests were ensnared 288

Jack-rabbit and Cottontail 296

The Rabbit Huntress and her adventures 297

The Ugly Wild Boy who drove the Bear away from Southeastern Mesa 310

The Revenge of the Two Brothers on the Háwikuhkwe, or the Two Little Ones and their Turkeys 317

The Young Swift-runner who was stripped of his Clothing by the Aged Tarantula 345

Átahsaia, the Cannibal Demon 365

The Hermit Mítsina 385

How the Twins of War and Chance, Áhaiyúta and Mátsailéma, fared with the Unborn-made Men of the Underworld 398

The Cock and the Mouse 411

The Giant Cloud-swallower 423

The Maiden the Sun made love to, and her Boys: or the origin of anger 429

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