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She spoke to her husband; he didn't pay attention to her, as though he was sleeping, but he wasn't asleep.

Whatever the man ate she took away from him, she took it away, she took everything, whatever he wanted to eat she took away from him.

The tree grew and it had a fruit, a gourd.

Yajki kita ne lamajtzin. Sel pipiltzitzin ne iishyu ne tekumat; sel pipiltzitzin.

The old woman went to see; the seeds of the gourd were just little boys, they were just little boys.

"Make us little hammocks!"

Kilwiat ne inlama: Nanita, musta tiyut tiawit titapewiat. Kilwiat: Shakan, nuishwiuwan! Kilwia.

They said to their grandmother, "gramma, tomorrow we are going to go hunt", they tell her. "Go ahead, my grandchildren", she said.

Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana. Kimanki.

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

She no longer gave the food to her grandchildren; she only ate together with her lover.

They skinned him, washed him, and took him to their grandmother's.

Kilwijket: Shikida lama, tiut tiyawit se apwesta. Ka panu ne iashish tzumpan kal, tesu tikmiktisnekit.

They said, "look grandmother, we're going to make a bet; whoever passes his/her piss on top of the house we don't want to kill".

"Whoever does not get his/her piss there we are going to kill."

Ashan shikitzkikan tulama. Ma kipanulti ne iashish!

"Now grab our grandmother; let her pass her piss."

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.

He saw clearly that the woman was coming but at that time he recognized her, (thinking that) he saw a woman named Leonarda.

He took of his belt on the sly. When the Siguanaba noticed, he had wrapped it around her twice and tied her.

He turned around to look her in the face and he saw her large eyes, not like people's eyes.

Kan mukuminki tik ne posaj, ne kishpuluj; teya kitak. Ne puliwik ne siwat.

When she threw herself into the pool there he lost (sight of) her and couldn't see her any longer; there the woman disappeared.

The sipitillo, I know him too; he comes out at night too, at midnight.

The sipitillo is very small but his hat is gigantic. He is not big, not tall; he's very little, but pure human.

Many haven't known that it doesn't pay to go out at night, at midnight.

He was dirty, hairy, and his hat was giant, and he was very small.

That's how he came to know the sipitillo also.