Tales of an Enchanted New Mexico

Tales of an Enchanted New Mexico begins and ends with tales from Old New Mexico brought overdusty trails from Spain into the New World, and finally into Northern New Spain, ie, Northern NewMexico. Both La Llorona and Comadre Sebastiana have been adapted into short stories from thetraditional mythological tales they are. The story of the Comanches is based in the late 1700 s, taken from the Comanche perspective as theylived their lives, and their interactions with local communities both Pueblo People and Spanish, andthe government of their time. Manitou Bridge, the Taos Rio Grande Gorge Bridge story, as the Algonquian word manitou means,supernatural forces that permeate the world and in this case, brings animation to the major bridges inthe story, as Manitou Springs in Colorado, by immersing oneself in the natural springs, one is animated.