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Pájaro Verde (English language: Green Bird) is a Mexican folktale collected by Howard True Wheeler from Ayutla, Jalisco.It is related to the cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom and distantly related to the Graeco-Roman myth of Cupid and Psyche, in that the heroine is forced to perform difficult tasks for a witch.
The novel was translated into English by Hardie St. Martin and Leonard Mades and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1973, with about twenty pages cut. This edition was reprinted by David R. Godine, Publisher in 1979. [2]
La muerte tilica y flaca. Death, thin and lanky. 15 La pera: the pear: El que espera, desespera. He who waits despairs. (A pun: espera "waits" and es pera "is a pear" are homophones in Mexican Spanish.) 16 La bandera: the flag: Verde blanco y colorado, la bandera del soldado. Green, white, and red, the flag of the soldier. 17 El bandolón: the ...
The Cu bird (Spanish: pájaro cu or cú) is a bird from a Mexican folktale that is unhappy with its looks. According to the legend, the other birds agreed to the barn owl's proposal to give the Cu bird one feather each and in return asked it to become the messenger of the bird council.
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