The writer Jovita González was a long memeber- and ultimately seved as president- of Texas Folklore Society, which strve to preserve the oral traditions and customs of her native state. Many of the folklore-based stories in this volume were published by González in periodicals such as Southwest Review from the 1920s through the 1940s but have been gathered here for the first time.
Sergio Reyna has brought together more than thirty narratives by González and arranged them into Animal Tales (such as ""The Mescal-Drinking Horse"")
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Life of Jovita González
- The Folklore and the Literary Work of Jovita González
- The Historic Framework of González’s Literary Work
- The Literary Works of Jovita González
- Notes
- Works Cited
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
- Animal Tales
- The Mocking Bird
- The Woodpecker
- The Paisano
- The Cicada
- The Cardinal
- The Mescal-Drinking Horse
- Tales of Humans
- Tío Patricio
- Juan, el Loco
- Don José María
- Don Tomás
- Pedro The Hunter
- The Mail Carrier
- The Perennial Lover
- Tío Pancho Malo
- The Bullet-Swallower
- The Philosopher of the Brush Country
- Among My People. Border Folklore
- Among My People
- Religious Tales
- El Cardo Santo (The Thistle)
- The Guadalupana Vine
- The Dove
- El Cenizo
- Tales of Popular Customs
- Shelling Corn by Moonlight
- Border Folklore
- Tales of Mexican Ancestors
- The Gift of the Pitahaya
- Ambrosio the Indian
- The First Cactus Blossom
- Shades of the Tenth Muses
- Tales of Ghosts, Demons, and Buried Treasures
- Legends of Ghosts and Treasures
- The Devil on the Border
- Without a Soul
- The Woman Who Lost Her Soul
- Nana Chita
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