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A Pima Legend from Arizona
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  Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest Compiled and Edited by Katharine Berry Judson, 1912  

Coyote and the Mesquite Beans

After the waters of the flood had gone down, Elder Brother said to Coyote, "Do not touch that black bug; and do not eat the mesquite beans. It is dangerous to harm anything that came safe through the flood."
 


So Coyote went on, but presently he came to the black bug. He stopped and ate it up. Then he went on to the mesquite beans.

He stopped and looked at them a while, and then said, "I will just taste one and that will be all." But he stood there and ate and ate until he had eaten them all up.

And the bug and the beans swelled up in his stomach and killed him.


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