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

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".

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.

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

Then the skull let go; it stayed there.

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

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.

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.

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."

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

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

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?".

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 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.

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".

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".

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

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

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.

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.

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.

"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".

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

"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."

"I want to go now."

"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.