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His mother -- we mean the queen --, his mother said, "let's go take a walk there in the woods". "Let's go see if you won't cheer up a bit."

The queen felt good that he attended them.

Muchijki alegrar ne piltzintzin, ne prinsipe, ma tinakan. Muchijki alegrar.

The little boy was happy, we mean the prince, was happy.

He said to his mother, "look, look, I brought a little bird".

He threw away his golden shoes; his mother picked them up.

The little boy, since now he was a man, became the king, he became king.

Then he remembered his friends; he said, "I", he said, "I remember my friends, how we went to walk there on the shores of the lake".

"I'm going to call them."

"Now", he said, "I am the king, look".

"I remembered you, that you are my friends."

Taja tiu tinaka de ministro. Taja seyuk ministro. Wan taja seyuk ministro.

"You will be a minister, you will be another minister, and you will be yet another minister."

Once there was a man who got married.

She takes her head off and goes out to walk around.

Her body remains and only her head goes.

The head did not want to stay outside in front of the church, she didn't want to.

Kitalij ne ichaketaj ne takatzin, ne kinaktij. Yajki ka dentroj ne takatzin.

The man put his jacket down for her; there he left her; the man went inside.

"I don't know, but they told me my wife is a witch, that I should be careful."

Who knows from where a deer was startled.

Then the skull let go; it stayed there.

They wanted to eat the meat, the stinking meat of the deer.

The witch (the "iron-toothed-old-woman") came. It's she who is her mother, the witch "iron-toothed-old-woman".

Then it split open in the middle of the night, let's say at midnight; you hear it at midnight.

Nanita, nanita, nanita! Kilwiat inlama. Queremos hamaquita, nanita! Kilwiat tik kastiaj.

"Gramma, gramma, gramma" they said to their grandmother, "we want little hammocks, gramma", they said to her in Spanish.

Nanita, nanita, nanita! Kilwiat inlama. Queremos hamaquita, nanita! Kilwiat tik kastiaj.

"Gramma, gramma, gramma" they said to their grandmother, "we want little hammocks, gramma", they said to her in Spanish.

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.

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.

But their grandmother deceived them because she had a lover.

She began to call her lover so they could eat together, so she could eat together with her lover.

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

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

Ay nanita! Kilwiat. Nanita, tenemos hambre! Kilwiat.

"Oh gramma", they said, "gramma, we're hungry" they tell her.

Ay nanita! Kilwiat. Nanita, tenemos hambre! Kilwiat.

"Oh gramma", they said, "gramma, we're hungry" they tell her.

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!".

Yuwan kichiwat ne sanjo. Yuwan kitajtamejchiwat ne witzkuyul pal ne naka, ne naka yu miki.

"Go make a trench; go sharpen güiscoyols (thorny palms) so he'll stay there, stay there, he's going to die."

"Let's skin him", they said.

Shikida nanita!, kilwiat. Talikat masat, wan sanka.

"Look, gramma", they said to her, "we brought a deer", and it was a lie.

That was not a deer; it was the meat of their 'bogeyman', of their grandmother's fellow.

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

No, that was not deer, but rather their grandmother's fellow. It was him that they killed, and they took the meat so that their grandmother would eat it.

Ay nanita! Me duele la cabeza, yu estoy rendido, kilwiat tik kastiaj.

"Oh gramma, my head aches, I'm exhausted", they say in Spanish.

Shikuchikama!, kilwia tik nawat. Shikuchikan!

"Sleep now!", she said in Pipil, "go to sleep!".

The iron-toothed-old-woman began to eat the meat. Afterwards they said, "how did you find the meat, grandmother?".

Ini ne inakayu tukujkul! Kilwijket.

"That was our bogeyman's flesh", they said.

Kilwia ne kutalajtzin ne seyuk, tik kastiaj kilwia: Mira tenguerechol, kilwia. Anda, ve que hace mi nanita, kilwia tik kastiaj.

The other said to the lizard, "look lizard", in Spanish he said, "go see what my gramma is doing", he said in Spanish.

Nikan nakak ne tejitaj. Kiajsi se pedasoj tejaj. Kitzuntapan.

"The piece of tile stuck here (pointing to the back of the neck); she found a piece of tile and she busted my head."

I remember what my grandmother and my grandfather told me.

When they say there is going to be a big storm, so they say, in the wind that comes by there come men and women in the wind such that they come to carry off ears of corn for them to eat. Thus the milpas were left broken, quite flattened, with many ears of corn disfigured with a look like pustules. Those were the ears of corn that the Chilteopaners took, according to my grandfather and my grandmother.

Then the man who caught and grabbed the turkey took it to his house. Immediately he ordered his wife to kill the turkey so they could eat it. So his wife killed the turkey, plucked it, and made the food, and they ate it.

But what they noticed was that the dog did not eat the turkey's bones and feathers. Then the whole family was left puzzled because the dog wouldn't eat the bones nor the feathers.

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.

Kunij inaket los tres pwes yek (ne) tay tikchiwtuk pero bien naja nikneki shikchiwa nuwan ne jwabor (juabor), shinechilwiti siquiera kan nemi ne plumas? Kan nakak ne ujumiu? Pal niyaw nikita kan nemi.

Then the three said, "well, what you have done is all right, but I want you to do me a favor". "Show me, at least, where the feathers are, where the bones were left, so I can go see where they are".

Kunij inaket los tres pwes yek (ne) tay tikchiwtuk pero bien naja nikneki shikchiwa nuwan ne jwabor (juabor), shinechilwiti siquiera kan nemi ne plumas? Kan nakak ne ujumiu? Pal niyaw nikita kan nemi.

Then the three said, "well, what you have done is all right, but I want you to do me a favor". "Show me, at least, where the feathers are, where the bones were left, so I can go see where they are".

Today I'm going to tell him that there is an old man here who himself has told me that his mother and his father are there in the arch. (There is a natural rock-arch very near Santo Domingo de Guzmán.)

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."

"Then bring me some more sandwiches; I'll put them in my bag to eat tomorrow."

Then his mother went inside. While his mother was going in to bring more bread, he began to eat the sandwich his mother had given him.

His mother brought four more big buns. He put them in his bag and left.

But when I go back there, I'm going to chew out my mother for what she has given me.

They are the ones who have money. That's why they went there to end up in the arch. And they didn't leave me money, just poverty.

As for me, if I don't work, I don't eat.

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

Nuamikuj ikustuj na nikchiwa kontar cuentos de cosas ke chiwki suceder nin tik nutechan, an nikchij kontar una cosa ke nutatanoy nechiwki kontar Ya nechilwij ka nin tik tutechan kaj de mala suerte kimutiat, kisa se animal ke yejemet kilwiat "Tzuntekumat". Yajika nutatanoy nechchiwki akonsejar kaj te ma ninejnemi tayua porke tamutiat.

My friend likes me to tell him stories about the things that have taken place in my town. Now I'm going to tell him something that my grandfather told me. He told me that in our town unfortunately one can be frightened. There's a creature they call the "skull". So, my grandfather advised me not to walk at night because they terrify you.

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 said, "where have you gone, Leonarda?"

Se me afigura, kilwij yaja. Tesu tiLionaj.

"It seems to me", he said, "you are not Leonarda".

Tayika te? Naja niLionaj!

"Sure, I'm Leonarda."

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

Kan kilpij, kilwia: Bueno, an tiawit ka muchan. Tiawit tikitat su cierto kaj taja tiLionaj!

When he tied her, he said, "OK, now let's go to your house to see if it's true that you are Leonarda".

"OK, let's go see that I will enter my house."

Kwikak ne siwat ichan neyuk siwat itukay Lionaj. Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.

He took the woman to the house of the other woman named Leonarda and (this) Leonarda had been very cold. So she had gotten up late at night to light the fire to get over being cold.

Kwikak ne siwat ichan neyuk siwat itukay Lionaj. Wan Lionaj kichiwtuk sentir sujsul sesek, yajika muketztuk peyna bien tayua; kitatia tit pal panu isesek.

He took the woman to the house of the other woman named Leonarda and (this) Leonarda had been very cold. So she had gotten up late at night to light the fire to get over being cold.

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".

"Oh, I bring a woman here who says that she is you."

"I ran into her there in the street, up there."

"I said, 'Doña Leonarda, where are you going?'."

"'You're not Leonarda', I told her."

"Tayika te? NiLionaj."

"'sure, I'm Leonarda.'"

"On the sly I tied her up with my belt and I'm bringing her here to see if it's true that it's not you."

Tayika te? Naj nin (ni)nemi, mas bien nisekmiki.

"Sure, I'm here, but I'm cold."

"I haven't left; I'm afraid to."

Then the woman began to lurch.

"I want to go now."

Then he said, "this is not good". "This is a spook." "But I messed her up because I tied her up."

"I'm going to tie her up again."

He took off running after her, but it was no use.

My grandfather told me these things that when he was young he heard happen in this town.

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.

I could barely cure him; I knew the cure.