Brujas, Bultos, y Brasas: Tales of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the Pecos Valley [Spanish]

by Nasario García

In the mountain villages at the headwaters of the Picos River, universal elements of magic, ghosts, devils, witches, curses and enchantment are played out. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 1889921033
• ISBN13: 9781889921037
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Western Edge Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Charming bilingual history of rural New Mexico folklore.

This elegant book with its 20-odd contributors from tiny villages on the Upper Pecos Valley is almost as attractive for the photos of the tellers, most in their 80's, as the meticulously transcribed Northern New Mexico dialect and excellent translations. The stories are commonly-told little morality tales and pieces of gossip that involve supernatural power, the intervention of the devil in our lives, or activities of local brujas. A chunk of American life that many of us cannot imagine actually exists.