Cuento is a Spanish word meaning literally "story" or "tale". Cuento may specifically refer to folk tales, a category of folklore that includes stories passed down through oral tradition. The word cuento may also be used as a verb to say "tell", as if you are "telling" a story ("Cuento"). Cuentos is more common to read to children at bedtime or just to entertain them. Many times cuentos are a good way to teach children to read at an early age and opens their mind to imagination. Varieties Idioms using this word, translated into English, include: contar un cuento – to tell a story cuento de hadas – fairy tale cuento de fantasmas – ghost story cuento de viejas – old wives' tale va de cuento – the story goes, or it is said cuento folklórico – folk tale In Spain Ralph S. Boggs, a folklorist who studied Spanish and other European folktales, also compiled an index of tales across ten nations, one of these nations Spain. Hansen notes that in Boggs' A Comparative Survey of the Folktales of Ten Peoples, Spain also had a large number of animal tales, pointing out the "marked interest in such tales in Spain and in Spanish America"; however, he indicates that Boggs' study showed Spain with a much lower percent of magic tales. After several such comparisons showing very close similarities as well as almost-opposite differences, he concluded that the index-analysis should be conducted for the other Spanish-speaking parts of the Americas before any explicit conclusions can be made about folktales in Latin America. Whether or not Latin American folktales should be compared to Spanish folktales as if they were a subcategory was not mentioned in the article; however, with differences in religion, tradition, history and other such elements that can turn a story into an entirely new direction, it is possible that folklorists will regard Latin American tales unique to Spanish tales in the future. According to Spanish folklorist , among the Magic Tales of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index, the following types are some of the most popular found in Spain, in the following order: AaTh 313, La Muchacha como ayudante del héroe (Blancaflor); AaTh 408, Las Tres Naranjas (La negra y la paloma); AaTh 480, Las muchachas amable y antipática; AaTh 707, Los tres hijos de oro (El pájaro que habla, el árbol que canta y el agua amarilla); AaTh 300, El