Another Subterranean Passage Legend

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Four legends of subterranean passages in as many parts of Middle America have recently been reported or cited by J. Eric S. Thompson (Apuntes Sobre Las Super sticiones de Los Mayas de Socotz, Honduras Britanica, in Los Mayas Antiguos, Mexico, 1941). They range in time from the present back to 1580, and in space from Zapotecan to eastern Maya country. He concludes that they were general among Mexican Indians and mixed bloods and may have been carried to New Mexico by Spanish-speakers, citing Kidder as authority for existence of a local belief in a passage connecting the ruins of Pecos with Taos.