And Horns on the Toads Page: V
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Preface
THIs VOLUME borrows its title from John Q. Anderson's article
on the horned toad of the Southwest, with which it opens.
Mr. Owens' "Seer of Corsicana" is placed second; "Curanderos
of South Texas" comes next because both the Mexican women
that Mr. McNeil writes about and the Corsicana "seer" were
folk doctors or advisers whom the people visited to learn
how to recover from sickness or how to find a hidden treasure
or grow rich in some other way. The two articles following
are about folk characters who possess in common a kind
of creativity which leads in Joe Whilden to imaginative lying
and in Grandpa Brown to stories, rhymes, or tricks to raise
a laugh at his friends or relatives. Joe is a liar and Grandpa
a tease; as depicted by Mr. Faulk and Mr. Hardin they are
recognizable as frontier types. In another society Joe might
have been a Baron Munchausen and Grandpa a witty satirical
poet. Each is original and delightful in his own way.
At this point a scholarly article is introduced, "Southpaws,
Psychology, and Social Science," by George D. Hendricks. The
next article, by Mr. Paredes, is scholarly also, and it leads
into a Mexican-Spanish sequence carrying through Artell
Dorman's "Speak of the Devil." In this sequence there is a
range from far-distant historical background to specific songs
and stories found in the Spanish Southwest.
The rest of the book, with the exception of Richard
Lancaster's story from Chief White Calf, has to do with
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Boatright, Mody Coggin. And Horns on the Toads, book, 1959; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38856/m1/7/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.