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

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."

He could no longer make it; he was going to die.

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.

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

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

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

When he was going down the street the Siguanaba (a siren-like supernatural being in the form of a woman) came out in front of him.

But before she got untied, when she began to struggle to go, the man noticed that the woman's feet were not like people's feet, rather they were really chicken feet.