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Ne iseltzin kipiat. Pejki kukuya, pejki kukuya.

They had him there all alone; he began to get sick, he started to get ill.

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."

Muchi ne doctores panutiwit aber asu kipajtiat. Tesu welitiwit tesu welitiwit.

"All the doctors have come to see if they could cure him; they haven't been able to, they haven't been able."

"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.

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.

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".

Once there was a man who got married.

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

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

Whatever the man ate she took away from him, she took it away, she took everything, whatever he wanted to eat she took away from him.

The head did not want to stay outside in front of the church, she didn't want to.

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

Who knows from where a deer was startled.

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

Laj! Musaluj nikan pak ne masat.

"Lah" -- it stuck here on the deer (on its neck).

The deer took off jumping.

Pa! Wetzki. Tzi-li-li-li-li! Mikik ne masat.

"Pa!" -- it fell -- it trembled and trembled -- the deer died.

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

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

Mikik. Kan ne miktuk, waltakatki se tekumat, waltakatki se tekumat.

She died; where she had died a groud tree sprouted.

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 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.

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.

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.

Yajket. Kalmiktijket se masat.

They went; they killed a deer.

Kikwat ne takwal. Kikwat ne takwal ka yut tapewiat.

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

Kikwat ne takwal. Kikwat ne takwal ka yut tapewiat.

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

She began to call her lover so they could eat together, so she could eat together with her lover.

She no longer gave the food to her grandchildren; she only ate together with her lover.

He told his brothers, "my grandmother is screwing you; you're not eating".

"She just smears grease on your lips so they will taste."

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.

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."

"We're going to take our little brother, gramdmother."

"Let's skin him", they said.

They skinned him, washed him, and took him to their grandmother's.

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

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

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

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

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

"Well yes, yes, my children, I'm going to cook it, we're going to eat."

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?".

"Whoever does not get his/her piss there we are going to kill."

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

Then the man who caught and grabbed the turkey took it to his house. Immediately he ordered his wife to kill the turkey so they could eat it. So his wife killed the turkey, plucked it, and made the food, and they ate it.

On the third day after the storm had passed and they had eaten the turkey, there came two men and a woman to look for it. They arrived at the house of the man who had caught it because they more or less already knew who had caught it.

Then the man went to show them.

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.

Actually, they took the girl because at the moment the man saw that they tried this, he saw perfectly (well) that a beautiful girl came out of the bones and feathers.

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.

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

In a little while the woman came out.

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.

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.

He saw clearly that the woman was coming but at that time he recognized her, (thinking that) he saw a woman named Leonarda.

Then the man was not so afraid.

Kan kilpij, kilwia: Bueno, an tiawit ka muchan. Tiawit tikitat su cierto kaj taja tiLionaj!

When he tied her, he said, "OK, now let's go to your house to see if it's true that you are Leonarda".

"OK, let's go see that I will enter my house."

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.

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."

Then the woman began to lurch.

In their struggle, it's not clear what she did to make the man loosened her. When it was loosened, she was able to get untied; she took off running.

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.

When the woman got away and took off running, he regretted it.

She ran until she got to the edge of the river and she throw herself into a big pool.

Kan mukuminki tik ne posaj, ne kishpuluj; teya kitak. Ne puliwik ne siwat.

When she threw herself into the pool there he lost (sight of) her and couldn't see her any longer; there the woman disappeared.

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.

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

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.

I could barely cure him; I knew the cure.