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"So, he doesn't get better."

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.

So when he was hungry, he said to himself, "finally I know where my father is, where my mother is".

Nimayana, nunan. Yajika niwitz.

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

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.

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

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.

"That's why I got up to light the fire to warm up."

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.

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.