Cushing lived for years at Zuñi Pueblo in New Mexico and set down these stories as he heard them told: the Poor Turkey Girl, the Youth and His Eagle, the Serpent of the Sea, and many tales of the trickster Coyote. A long introduction by John Wesley Powell frames the collection.
A landmark of American folklore collection; Powell’s introduction calls folklore the superstition of the ignorant, an attitude of 1901. Download the free EPUB.