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Who knows from where a deer was startled.

Yajki kalinh (m) ana ne ipilawantzitzin. Yawi kene tan ne puchut, tan ne puchut.

She went to get her little boys, then she went under the silk-cotton tree, under the silk-cotton tree.

Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana. Kimanki.

They skinned it and told their grandmother to cook it; she cooked it.

But as the Nanahuatzin was there, the youngest child, he saw what their grandmother was doing.

Kinilwia ne Nanawatzin, se chimpe: Shinechwikakan ne idamuj nulama, yaja ja kikwa ne takwal. Pwes shinechwikakan.

The Nanahuatzin, the youngest child, said to them, "take me; my grandmother's fellow, he's the one who eats the food; so take me!".

"Well yes, yes, my children, I'm going to cook it, we're going to eat."

But the did not tell the truth, but rather arrived asking if by chance he had seen a girl pass near his house the day of the big storm.

So when he was hungry, he said to himself, "finally I know where my father is, where my mother is".

I'm going to ask them for something to eat, because they have to give it to me now that I'm hungry.

He came there to the door, stood in the middle of the door, and said, "mother, father, come out, I'm hungry, I want to eat".

"Are you hungry, boy?"

Nimayana, nunan. Yajika niwitz.

"I'm hungry, mother; that's why I've come."

Kunij shikwa sikiera pan por ke tamal te kanaj. Shikwa pan pal panu mumayana.

"Then at least eat some bread, because there are no tortillas; eat bread so your hunger will go away."

Kunij shikwa sikiera pan por ke tamal te kanaj. Shikwa pan pal panu mumayana.

"Then at least eat some bread, because there are no tortillas; eat bread so your hunger will go away."

Finally, when he wanted to die because he was hungry and because he had nothing, he got out a mirror while it was lightning.

When he was going down the street the Siguanaba (a siren-like supernatural being in the form of a woman) came out in front of him.

Kunij, keman ajsik ne takat ke kwika ne siwat ilpijtuk wan isinidor. Kilwia: "Nana Lionaj!"

Then, when the man arrived who brought the woman tied with his belt, he said, "Doña Leonarda".

Then the woman began to lurch.

Therefore, now, I told my friend so that he will know that the "skull" exists and that the Siguanaba exists, for whoever is not brave will be frightened.

Whoever it pays, can come out ahead, also. He even gives a fever to those he frightens. That one is called "the Sipitillo".

Once my son was terrified when he was going to frighten off grackels there in the cornfield. So he was frightened; he says he saw the sipitillo.