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.