Oral History #018: A Man Married to a Spook

Authors

James Mondloch
Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'x
Diego Guarchaj

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Description

The narrator tells the story of a seller of clay pots who discovers that his wife is a spook (she transformed into an animal at night). She offers to sacrifice her husband so that her companion spooks could eat him. But in the end, the spooks kill and eat the woman instead of her husband. This story is similar to other stories (#97, #106, and #147) in this collection.

Publication Date

1-1-1968

Publisher

Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico

Keywords

Folklore; witchcraft

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Mondloch, James; Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'x; and Diego Guarchaj. "Oral History #018: A Man Married to a Spook." (1968). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_kichemaya/132

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