Montoya, Adela and Lopez, Junio (Taos, NM)

Authors

1140 1. 022

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

5-3-1975

Comments

93 year old-Adela talks about comidas, mataban marranos hacían chicharrones, secaban carne, hacían sesina. Colgaban la carne para preservala. Other animals they had vacas, caballos in the ranch. Other comidas: posole y chicos, rueditas, quelites, alverjon. Orejones: dehydrated apples and peaches. Juegos: el Cañute, memories about making soap. Ways adults used to scare children with the 'Coco', or 'El Abuelo'. Julio López starts talking about brujerías, in relationship of an experience of his aunt Margara who took him as a little toddler to her house for over a week without his parents' consent. He never starved during the seven days in his aunt's house even when he didn't eat anything during that time. Memories of his aunt, black cats, her rites and alabados in the cemetery. He remembers her aunt studied the 'Libro Negro' [The Black Book], the last time he saw her in the distance, and rumors of her disappearance as they never found her body only a pile of ashes in a nearby spot in the village. Some personal experiences with unexplainable things that happened to him as an adult.

Recommended Citation

Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico