Anita M. Salazar, Phil Trujillo, Audilio Miranda, Anonymous, recorders, 1970
File — Box: 3, CD: 235
Scope and Contents
(CD 235 repeats some of the material on CD 182. For additional stories told by Davis, see CD 183). Salazar, 1970: Demetrio Montoya, b. 1886, Rainsville, NM. 1. La rana (agglutinate, each animal silences the previous one); 2. El leon y el grillo (cuento, story about lion and cricket, cricket asks why he is stepped on, lion explains that he is king of animals); 3. No dejes camino por vereda (story, cuento, two friends take different paths to the same end, one that takes more frequented path is killed, moral, take the road less traveled); 4. El rico que comia como pobre (cuento, story about a rich man that eats like a poor man, everyone asks him why except one person - to who he gives 300 pesos).
Salazar, 1970: Jose Fermin Alarcon, b. 1884, Rainsville, NM. 1. Un hombre que no trabajaba (folk tale, lazy husband spends night in barn, his working wife and doctor trick him into thinking he gave birth to a calf, is cured of indolence, humor); 2. Me subi al cerro mas alto (son wants to do well for his parents, obey, earn blessing, climbs the tallest hill to nature, family); 3. Decima, El borreguero (recited fragment, hardships of life of shepherder, good dog, sheep); 4. Coplas de don Simon (humor, folk song, Simon longs for old days, describes changes in fashion, clothing, customs compared then to now, courtship, dance, soldiers, honor, respect, family, gender roles, life in past).
Trujillo, 1970: Alberto Anzures, b. 1914, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Las brujas (anecdote of speaker's grandfather, who had a friend that was a brujo, warlock, male witch. A friend asks a brujo to teach him brujeria, witchcraft, his friend warns him and says that a boy will come to him in night, he must say without God and without Holy Mother Virgin Mary, and then boy will fly you to Chihuahua. They end up at a party in Mexico, he has to complete three task, each more difficult than last. On the third, he is scared and says a prayer to God and ends up alone in desert); 2. El borreguito y la vibora (cuento, story, a lamb frees a snake stuck under a rock, now the snake says he will eat the lamb, trickery, cunning, other incidents, fox, blackbird and raven); 3. anecdote (story about speaker's father as a child. Cavestito cuendito cavecho sewed with wool in old times. One of the boys ropes a cat and goes home, gets in trouble and must remove his cavecho); 4. El herrero y el hierro (Wise Solomon, the first scientist, blacksmith, had difficulties heating steel, a man advises him on using sand, developed his method); 4. El hombre y el sacerdote (young new priest arrives at a parish and helps a drunkard of the community).
Miranda, ca. 1970: Francisquita Davis, b. 1906, Armijo, NM. 1. Los tres huevos (cuento, story, woman, wife, every morning makes three eggs, two for husband and one for her, then they fight over last egg, because she can't have the last one, she wants to die, marriage problems, women); 2. Los dos viejitos (chiste, joke, old married couple,each hopes other one does not die first. A vulger man, lepero, trickster, hears them, says he is Death come for only one of them, neither wants to go, muerte); 3. Un matrimonio muy catolico (chiste, old married Catholic couple have one son that stays in kitchen after dinner instead of praying rosery and eats Mexican honey with tortilla or bread. One day his father makes him come pray and he gets his hand stuck in honey jar. Se persina, makes the sign of cross, with honey jar); 4. El que no sabia ingles (humor, story, cuento, Juan goes to buy gloves at store of Anglo American, who speaks only English, Juan confuses words, owner insults Juan and kicks him out, language); 5. El hombre del bote en el rio (chiste, joke, a man runs a boat service from one side of the river to other, passenger has no money but says he will share three truths with him, if he lets him ride. 1 - hard bread is better than none, 2 - bad shoe on foot is better than good shoe on hand, 3 - if everyone rides the boat this way, you won't make any money, trickery); 6. La coja (chiste, joke, one man bets another man that he won't tell a crippled woman es coja - cripple, so he brings a rose and a flower and asks her to choose mi senora, es-coja, language, play on words).
Miranda, ca. 1970: Anonymous, female. 1. La muerte, el Senor y el pobre (a man that gathers wood never eats his entire meal because there is always someone else to share with, when God ask, he doesn't share, but shares with Death, because Death treats everyone equally); 2. Dos sabios y el cocinero (cuento, two wisemen and a cook prepare a lamb, and eat happily, they agree that one that has better dream can eat head of the lamb in morning. Cook eats head after other two fall asleep, trickery); 3. Los dos rancheros (cuento, story, two ranchers, Jose Maria sell eggs, butter, milk and meat, is cheated by Anglo Americans who don't understand Spanish, Antonio knows English and makes them pay, language).
Miranda, ca. 1970: Anonymous man. (Cobos, note, Max Miranda or Nalecio Lopez?) 1. Dos espanoles (two Spaniards came to U.S., immigrants, they attempt to talk to an Anglo American in Spanish with an English accent, until American says he also knows Spanish, they switch to Spanish accent, language); 2. San Pedro y el Senor (cuento, story, two wagons pulled by oxen get stuck crossing river on a hot day, one man tried to get his oxen to move, the other prays to God and Saint Peter. God explains to Peter that he will help man that is upset for his diligence and leave other for his indolence); 3. El enfermo (chiste, joke, a dying sick man requests his wife not date other men after his death, but after dies, he chases women in heaven, humor, marriage, muerte); 4. Dos viejitas (chiste, joke, two old women); 6. El perico (chiste, joke, parrot in the oven); 5. Pretty Chilly (Mexican boy urinates outside during winter, Anglo American walking by comments - pretty chilly, the Mexican interprets it as a complement, chile can refer to penis); 7. La mula por un credo (chiste, joke, a priest sells his female mule for the price of a well recited prayer, religion, church); 8. Don Cacahuate (chiste, joke, he complains to his wife when she wants a bolillo, bread, says he can't give her an Anglo American baby, marriage).
Salazar, 1970: Jose Fermin Alarcon, b. 1884, Rainsville, NM. 1. Un hombre que no trabajaba (folk tale, lazy husband spends night in barn, his working wife and doctor trick him into thinking he gave birth to a calf, is cured of indolence, humor); 2. Me subi al cerro mas alto (son wants to do well for his parents, obey, earn blessing, climbs the tallest hill to nature, family); 3. Decima, El borreguero (recited fragment, hardships of life of shepherder, good dog, sheep); 4. Coplas de don Simon (humor, folk song, Simon longs for old days, describes changes in fashion, clothing, customs compared then to now, courtship, dance, soldiers, honor, respect, family, gender roles, life in past).
Trujillo, 1970: Alberto Anzures, b. 1914, Albuquerque, NM. 1. Las brujas (anecdote of speaker's grandfather, who had a friend that was a brujo, warlock, male witch. A friend asks a brujo to teach him brujeria, witchcraft, his friend warns him and says that a boy will come to him in night, he must say without God and without Holy Mother Virgin Mary, and then boy will fly you to Chihuahua. They end up at a party in Mexico, he has to complete three task, each more difficult than last. On the third, he is scared and says a prayer to God and ends up alone in desert); 2. El borreguito y la vibora (cuento, story, a lamb frees a snake stuck under a rock, now the snake says he will eat the lamb, trickery, cunning, other incidents, fox, blackbird and raven); 3. anecdote (story about speaker's father as a child. Cavestito cuendito cavecho sewed with wool in old times. One of the boys ropes a cat and goes home, gets in trouble and must remove his cavecho); 4. El herrero y el hierro (Wise Solomon, the first scientist, blacksmith, had difficulties heating steel, a man advises him on using sand, developed his method); 4. El hombre y el sacerdote (young new priest arrives at a parish and helps a drunkard of the community).
Miranda, ca. 1970: Francisquita Davis, b. 1906, Armijo, NM. 1. Los tres huevos (cuento, story, woman, wife, every morning makes three eggs, two for husband and one for her, then they fight over last egg, because she can't have the last one, she wants to die, marriage problems, women); 2. Los dos viejitos (chiste, joke, old married couple,each hopes other one does not die first. A vulger man, lepero, trickster, hears them, says he is Death come for only one of them, neither wants to go, muerte); 3. Un matrimonio muy catolico (chiste, old married Catholic couple have one son that stays in kitchen after dinner instead of praying rosery and eats Mexican honey with tortilla or bread. One day his father makes him come pray and he gets his hand stuck in honey jar. Se persina, makes the sign of cross, with honey jar); 4. El que no sabia ingles (humor, story, cuento, Juan goes to buy gloves at store of Anglo American, who speaks only English, Juan confuses words, owner insults Juan and kicks him out, language); 5. El hombre del bote en el rio (chiste, joke, a man runs a boat service from one side of the river to other, passenger has no money but says he will share three truths with him, if he lets him ride. 1 - hard bread is better than none, 2 - bad shoe on foot is better than good shoe on hand, 3 - if everyone rides the boat this way, you won't make any money, trickery); 6. La coja (chiste, joke, one man bets another man that he won't tell a crippled woman es coja - cripple, so he brings a rose and a flower and asks her to choose mi senora, es-coja, language, play on words).
Miranda, ca. 1970: Anonymous, female. 1. La muerte, el Senor y el pobre (a man that gathers wood never eats his entire meal because there is always someone else to share with, when God ask, he doesn't share, but shares with Death, because Death treats everyone equally); 2. Dos sabios y el cocinero (cuento, two wisemen and a cook prepare a lamb, and eat happily, they agree that one that has better dream can eat head of the lamb in morning. Cook eats head after other two fall asleep, trickery); 3. Los dos rancheros (cuento, story, two ranchers, Jose Maria sell eggs, butter, milk and meat, is cheated by Anglo Americans who don't understand Spanish, Antonio knows English and makes them pay, language).
Miranda, ca. 1970: Anonymous man. (Cobos, note, Max Miranda or Nalecio Lopez?) 1. Dos espanoles (two Spaniards came to U.S., immigrants, they attempt to talk to an Anglo American in Spanish with an English accent, until American says he also knows Spanish, they switch to Spanish accent, language); 2. San Pedro y el Senor (cuento, story, two wagons pulled by oxen get stuck crossing river on a hot day, one man tried to get his oxen to move, the other prays to God and Saint Peter. God explains to Peter that he will help man that is upset for his diligence and leave other for his indolence); 3. El enfermo (chiste, joke, a dying sick man requests his wife not date other men after his death, but after dies, he chases women in heaven, humor, marriage, muerte); 4. Dos viejitas (chiste, joke, two old women); 6. El perico (chiste, joke, parrot in the oven); 5. Pretty Chilly (Mexican boy urinates outside during winter, Anglo American walking by comments - pretty chilly, the Mexican interprets it as a complement, chile can refer to penis); 7. La mula por un credo (chiste, joke, a priest sells his female mule for the price of a well recited prayer, religion, church); 8. Don Cacahuate (chiste, joke, he complains to his wife when she wants a bolillo, bread, says he can't give her an Anglo American baby, marriage).
Dates
- 1970
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English, Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 13 boxes (12.25 cu. ft.)
Creator
- From the Collection: Cobos, Rubén (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu