Preface: the cuento of the book -- Here the story begins -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Map: the center of traditional Spanish folklore in the American Southwest -- In the beginning, stories from the spirit of the Aztecs: Aztec creation legend: Five suns -- Stories from the merging of two cultures: Weeping woman (la llorona) -- La llorona (Weeping woman) -- Our lady of Guadalupe (nuestra senora de Guadalupe) -- Nuestra senora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe) --- Traditional cuentos: Moral and religious stories: Dona Sebastiana -- Dona Sebastiana -- El santo nino -- Devil's friend -- Three branches (las tres ramas) -- Las tres ramas (three branches) -- Bruja's dance -- Gifts of the holy family (los regalos de la sagrada familia) -- Los regalos de la sagrada familia (gifts of the holy family) -- El santo nino de Atocha -- Los dos compadres stories: True path to happiness (El camino verdadero a la felicidad) -- El camino verdadero a la felicidad (the true path to happiness) -- Compadre's sandals -- Greedy compadre -- Chistes: One for you, one for me (una para ti, una para mi) -- Una para ti, una para mi (one for you, one for me) -- You first! -- Don Cachuate, Mr. Peanut -- Is he lost? -- Like father, like son (de tal palo, tal astilla) -- De tal palo, tal astilla (like father, like son) -- Three Simpletons (los tres simplones) -- Los tres simplones (three simpletons) -- Three simpletons, even dumber! -- Three dreamers -- Shepherd and the skunk.
Tales of transformation, magic and wisdom: Three pieces of good advice (los tres buenos consejos) -- Los tres buenos consejos (the three pieces of good advice) -- Boy who killed the giant (El muchacho que mato al gigante) -- El muchacho que mato al gigante (the boy who killed the giant) -- Don Jacinto -- Magic violin -- Jujuyana, the devil's daughter -- Most interesting gift of all -- Boy without fear -- Pedro de ordimalas -- Animal stories: Littlest ant -- Smelly feet -- Language of the animals -- Rabbit and the coyote -- El conejo y el coyote -- One good deed deserves another -- Foolish coyote (El coyote loco) -- El coyote loco (the foolish coyote) -- Eagle and the lion -- Contemporary cuentos: Stories by modern Latino storytellers: Dust devil (el diablo de polvo) -- El diablo de polvo (the dust devil) -- La llorona's final cry -- La Coqueta de Piedras negras y el barrilero -- Corn woman (la mujer del maiz) -- La mujer del maiz (the corn woman) -- Angelo the stowaway -- Apolonio Nevarez Jackson -- Pano and la Guadalupana: altar adventures of Cholo, Vato, Pano, and Mama Chica -- Flood.
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