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- The Drummer - There once was a girl who wanted nothing more than to make music all day. She played all sorts of instruments, but her favorite was the drum. Every year, at the festival of Huehuecoyotl, there was a drum contest. All her life she wanted to enter, but had been afraid of her unworthiness. The trickster god was her favorite, and she wanted to honor him, and she felt her playing was not good enough for him to dance to. But this year, this year she decided it was time. But she was told the contest was for boys, and she could not enter. So she tied up her hair and wore boy’s clothes and disguised her voice, and entered under

                                    The Ebony Girl and the Moon Beam There once lived a woodcutter and his wife who had happy, prosperous lives, and while they were not rich, neither were they poor. All they lacked was a child, which they wanted very much but never had. One day, the woodcutter went into the forest, and he found a fairy ring of mushrooms and flowers, and lying in the middle of the ring was a large piece of ebony wood. The woodcutter supposed it was