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"That's what I wish were mine, that there."

He said to his sons, "this is going to be your friend".

"That's what I wanted, to play."

"That's what I was missing."

"I'm going to throw my shoes away."

"I'm going to be barefooted just like my friends are", he said.

"We're going now", said the old man; "you go too, but don't forget, come anytime with your son; here are his friends to play with".

"That's what your son needed."

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."

"That's why I called you."

"I am going to give you a position, an office."

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."

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."

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."

That's how far our story goes.

Yajki kitajtani seyuk konsejoj. Yajki ka tiupan chan ne palej, ma kimaka ne konsejoj ken kichiwaskia.

He went to ask for more advice; he went to the church, to the priest's. He should advise him how he should do it.

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

"But since I put chili on her, she no longer could."

"Now the priest told me that if I have a farm that I should go with her that she eat the red custard apples that are ripe, and then I should hit her with the hard ones in order to kill her."

"But since I was there, I would be trying to."

Laj! Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.

"Lah" -- it stuck here on the deer (on its neck).

Aj, ne nusiwapiltzin! Nikan timiktuk, pero nikan nemi ne nuchichiwal. Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!

"Oh, my daughter, you have died here, but here is my gourd, your gourd of love is coming to come up here."

Aj, ne nusiwapiltzin! Nikan timiktuk, pero nikan nemi ne nuchichiwal. Nikan yu kisa ne muchichiwal amor!

"Oh, my daughter, you have died here, but here is my gourd, your gourd of love is coming to come up here."

"Oh, my daughter, here is your gourd."

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.

"Wait a bit; I'm going to do it."

Pejki ne inlama kiwijwilanij ne ajamakitas, wan tami. Ajka puchut, ajka puchut, ajka puchut, yajki sepa ne puchut ka ajku.

Their grandmother began to hang the hammocks. Afterwards, "up silk-cotton tree, up tree up, tree"; the silk-cotton tree went back up.

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.

He told his brothers, "my grandmother is screwing you; you're not eating".

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.

She lied; they had not eaten.

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!".

"I'm going to show you where he goes."

"We're going to take our little brother, gramdmother."

Te, porke yu kikukuawitzti, yu kikukuawitzti! Kinilwia.

"No, because he is going to get stuck with the thorns, he's going to get pricked", she tells them.

Nikan shikchiwakan ne sanjoj. Man shiktzujtzuntamejtikan ne witzkuyul, wan ne shiktalpachukan.

"Make the trench here, but sharpen the güiscoyols and put them in the ground."

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

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

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

She said to them in Spanish, "get up my grandchildren, the food is ready".

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

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

Bidaj, nutejtelpuchtzin, bidaj nutejtelpuchtzin. Yamanik.

"Delicious my sons, delicious my sons, soft."

Ini ne inakayu tukujkul! Kilwijket.

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

Ja! Nikmati ka mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj. Ne chimpe mitzinmakatuk ne konsejoj.

"Ha, I know that the youngest child has advised you, he has advised you."

Bueno, esta bueno! Ma kia. Pero niu nikmiktia ne chimpitoj.

"Well, that's all right, so be it, but I'm going to kill that youngest child."

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.

But in this case, once there was a smart man who held that what they came to do in our town was too much.

So he made a trap. In the trap he was able to catch a girl of about eighteen. But at the moment she fell to the ground, immediately the girl changed into a turkey.

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.

On the third day after the storm had passed and they had eaten the turkey, there came two men and a woman to look for it. They arrived at the house of the man who had caught it because they more or less already knew who had caught it.

Then he caught it and took it home and told his wife to kill it and make the food, and they ate it.

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".

Then the man went to show them.

Then they picked up the bones, made a pile, and asked for a trough and a lot of water and a spool of thread, and they throw it into the air.

Soon it thrundered. When it thundered he saw that it just turned around. In the turn that it made it raised and disappeared.

So, the "hurricaners" in reality come from Chilteopan; they come to take ears of corn to eat. But they were screwed up, because they killed the girl and ate her.

That's what my grandfather and grandmother told me, and big storms always come, but we never saw if one came to fall. So, today I am telling this to my friend so he can take this story with him as a remembrance.

Today, the 13th of July and St. Anthony's day, I am here in my house together with my friend who comes from far away. He likes to hear stories about what has taken place in my town.

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.

Then he grabbed his machete and his net-bag, and went there to the arch.

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".

Nimayana, nunan. Yajika niwitz.

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

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 yaja kilwia. Tikpia wey pan?

Then he said, "do you have lots of bread?"

"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.

Then he said, "oh son-of-a-bitch". "So this was not a tortilla I have eaten, nor bread, rather it was cowshit that I ate.

Therefore, here in my bag are big cowpies; that's what I ate, not bread.

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

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

Therefore when I go back to the arch, I'm going to speak to my father to chew him out."

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.

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.

Then he spoke to her.

"Oh, I'm taking a walk just as you have come out to take a walk."

Tayika te? Naja niLionaj!

"Sure, I'm Leonarda."

"But I was hot, so I also came out to walk for a while."

Then the man was not so afraid.

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

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

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".

Señor, kilwij kalijtik. Uni tinemi?

"Señor", she said from inside, "is that you?"

Nikan ninemi, señor. Tay tikneki?

"Here I am, señor, what do you want?"

"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?'."