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AND OTHER MEXICAN LORE
teaching their descendants to take their medicines "In the
name of God, and in the name of Don Pedrito."
Then I decided to collect and write down the stories the
people told about this man and have them made into a little
book. Since most of these stories would be told to me by
Spanish-speaking people, I decided to write the book in
Spanish. It appeared in 1934 under the imprint of Casa
Editorial Lozana, at San Antonio, Texas.
Almost at once after it was published, I received a request
from the Library of the College of Physicians in Philadel-
phia, the oldest medical school in the United States, for
donation of a copy. I was glad to forward one and thus place
a record of Don Pedro Jaramillo in a position of note and
permanency, even though the record was in Spanish. Now
my wish is to present the same record in English. I have
added several stories not among those in the Spanish book,
and I have brought the account down to the year 1950.
THE LIFE OF DON PEDRO JARAMILLO
BENEFACTOR OF HUMANITY
"HERE LIE the remains of Pedro Jaramillo the Benefactor of
Humanity. Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Died at
Paisano, Starr County, Texas, July 3, 19o7."
This is the epitaph, written in Spanish, on a small stone
in the form of a cross that marks the grave of an old Mex-
ican faith healer in a small cemetery near Falfurrias in
South Texas, in what now is Brooks County.
Pedro Jaramillo came to this part of Texas from Mexico
in i881. His interest in the locality developed through a
friend in Mexico who knew this country. He first came in
the company of some men who were bringing liquors to
Las Cabras Ranch of Don Andres Canales, where a cele-
bration was to be held on St. John's Day, June 24, which
festival was widely celebrated on Mexican ranches in those
days. This gave Don Pedro an opportunity to see something
of the country.
He went back to Mexico and then returned to settle at
Los Olmos Ranch. This was another of the large Mexican
ranches that were situated in the then thinly populated part11
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TCollection of Texas and Mexican folklore, including folktales, Mexican folk remedies, and stories about Don Pedrito Jaramillo, who was the Curandero of Los Olmos. The index begins on page 137.
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Texas Folklore Society. The Healer of Los Olmos and Other Mexican Lore, book, 1951; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67665/m1/21/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.