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Then the old man said, "your son needs something.

"Let him play with other boys, he'll cheer up."

"Wait", he said, "don't go", "wait!".

"My boys are going to come soon, they're going to play."

The three boys brought some little fish, and the other brought a nest of the mareño bird.

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

Yut anyawit. Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.

"You'll go and he'll go with you; he'll go with you to have a good time." "He's not here for you to hit him."

Yut anyawit. Yu yawi anmuwan pal muchiwa dibertir, yu yawi anmuwan, tesu ja pal ankisumat.

"You'll go and he'll go with you; he'll go with you to have a good time." "He's not here for you to hit him."

There, over there they looked for some fish and the other one for a bird's nest.

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."

The prince gave an office to the boys, since they were men now.

In the nights he is sleeping.

So he smear her.

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

When he spoke to her the skull throw itself and stuck onto his neck.

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.

"Each night she goes out to walk abround, but only her head."

"All along the stree the dogs howl 'wawawawawawawawawawa', the dogs howl."

"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."

"Don't eat my husband, don't eat my husband!", that's what she said to them.

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."

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

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.

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.

Kikwat ne takwal. Kikwat ne takwal ka yut tapewiat.

They ate the food, they ate the food that they went to catch.

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."

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."

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."

"Now our 'bogeyman' is going to come there and he's going to feel the "parran", "pa", he's going to fall."

"'top, top, top, top", the thorns are going to pierce him."

Ne seyuk noche. Plaj! ne tukujkul! Ajan!

The next night, "plah"; it's their 'bogeyman', "ah".

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

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

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

Ini ne inakayu tukujkul! Kilwijket.

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

She was going to bite him.

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.

"OK, but my grandmother is going to see what's going to happen."

Pejket kene ne tajtakamet: Chirrrr. Baj, yawi seyuk: Irrrr.

Then the men began, "chirr"; another went, "irr".

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I could barely cure him; I knew the cure.