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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."

He asked for advice and it was given to him, they gave him advice.

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.

But finally she got down.

It went by right there under the zapote tree; the head threw itself.

Finally the deer dried up and she, the skull, was going to die all alone there in the canyon.

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

The iron-toothed-old-woman sensed it; she came to go see it.

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.

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

Yajki kitantia ne itan. Nepa ten kebrada kitantia ne itan pal kikwa ne piltzitzin.

She went to sharpen her teeth, there by the edge of the canyon she sharpened her teeth so she could eat the little boy.

Yajki kitantia ne itan. Nepa ten kebrada kitantia ne itan pal kikwa ne piltzitzin.

She went to sharpen her teeth, there by the edge of the canyon she sharpened her teeth so she could eat the little boy.

He went by and saw that she was sharpening her teeth, she was sharpening her teeth.

There the iron-toothed-old-woman met her end.

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 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.

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.

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

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 the man was not so afraid.

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