[187] Emory, _Notes of a Military Reconnaissance of New Mexico, 1846-47_, p. 64. [188] Morgan, _Contributions to North American Ethnology_, Vol. IV, pp. 151-153. Good account of “Montezuma of the Pueblos” in Bancroft _Native Races_, Vol. III, p. 171, _et seq._ “All [the Pueblos] held Montezuma to be their perpetual Sovereign.”—Josiah Gregg, _Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-39._ [189] Bandelier, _Final Report_, Pt. I, p. 262, and “The Montezuma of the Pueblo Indians,” _American Anthropologist_, October, 1892, where the matter of the Mexican servants is treated. [190] Brinton, _Myths of the New World_, p. 190. [191] See _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vol. XXIII; also Bandelier, _Final Report_, Pt. I, p. 306. [192] Bourke says that in November, 1881, when he was at Zuñi, an old chief who talked Spanish told him that “in the day of long ago all the Pueblos, Moqui, Zuñi, Ácoma, Laguna, Jémez and others had the religion of human sacrifice, at the time of the Feast of Fire when the days were shortest. The victim had his throat cut and blood was allowed to flow freely but he generally recovered. Although the Mexicans undertook to prevent this ceremony, a modified form persisted for a long time thereafter.” _Snake Dance of the Moquis_, p. 164. Hodge, on the contrary, rejects emphatically the idea that human sacrifice ever existed among the Pueblos. He says, “It is just the kind of thing the Indian loves to pour into the eager ears of too gullible whites when they had the effrontery to pry too familiarly into their beliefs; but what fun they had the next moment among themselves. Give a Pueblo Indian a hint of the kind of answer you are seeking and he will accommodate you to the fullest extent.” [193] Elsie Clews Parsons, _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vol. XXXI, pp. 260, 261; “Mothers and Children at Laguna,” Man, March, 1919; Full description of maternity myths in _American Anthropologist_, Vol. XX; “Mother and Children at Zuñi,” _Man_, November, 1919; “Zuñi Conception and Pregnancy Beliefs” (19th International Cong. Americanists, 1915). [194] Undoubtedly corrupted Spanish for _Santo_ (Saint). [195] Cushing gives a long list of these charming names never used by white visitors. [196] A wild, ugly-looking man, or animal, that frightens bad boys; hence any terrible-looking person who frightens others is “el coco.” It is in general use in Spanish literature, “_meterle el coco a una persona_” (Espinosa, in _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, Vols. XXIII and XXIX). [197] In Zuñi an exactly similar character is A’Doshle, though Harrington refers to him as _Tsabije_ or _t’ete_ (grandfather) (Elsie Clews Parsons, _Zuñi A’Doshle and Suüke_, in _American Anthropologist_, Vol. XVIII, 1916). [198] In Holland on St. Nicholas Day, December 5, there is a tradition and a ceremony performed very similar to the _Agüelo_. In Brittany also there is the same curious custom.