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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."

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

"That's what I wish were mine, that there."

Muchijki alegrar ne piltzintzin, ne prinsipe, ma tinakan. Muchijki alegrar.

The little boy was happy, we mean the prince, was happy.

They told him to smear chili on her.

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.

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

"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."

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

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.

Pejki ne inlama kiwijwilanij ne ajamakitas, wan tami. Ajka puchut, ajka puchut, ajka puchut, yajki sepa ne puchut ka ajku.

Their grandmother began to hang the hammocks. Afterwards, "up silk-cotton tree, up tree up, tree"; the silk-cotton tree went back up.

Wan tami kalnutzket ne inlama. Kinekit temut, ma kaltemulti.

Later they called their grandmother; they want to get down, get them down.

Wan tami kalnutzket ne inlama. Kinekit temut, ma kaltemulti.

Later they called their grandmother; they want to get down, get them down.

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.

Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana. Kimanki.

They skinned it and told their grandmother to cook it; she cooked it.

Kinnutzki ne inlama. Kilwia: Shisakan! Nemia ne takwal! Shisakan, nupilawantzitzin, shisakan! Nemia ne takwal!

Their grandmother spoke to them; she said, "wake up, the food is ready, wake up my children, wake up, the food is ready!"

But their grandmother deceived them because she had a lover.

But as the Nanahuatzin was there, the youngest child, he saw what their grandmother was doing.

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

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!".

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

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

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

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.

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?".

Bueno, esta bueno! Ma kia. Pero niu nikmiktia ne chimpitoj.

"Well, that's all right, so be it, but I'm going to kill that youngest child."

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

Kilwijket: Shikida lama, tiut tiyawit se apwesta. Ka panu ne iashish tzumpan kal, tesu tikmiktisnekit.

They said, "look grandmother, we're going to make a bet; whoever passes his/her piss on top of the house we don't want to kill".

Ashan shikitzkikan tulama. Ma kipanulti ne iashish!

"Now grab our grandmother; let her pass her piss."

Ashan shikitzkikan tulama. Ma kipanulti ne iashish!

"Now grab our grandmother; let her pass her piss."

There the iron-toothed-old-woman met her end.

So he made a trap. In the trap he was able to catch a girl of about eighteen. But at the moment she fell to the ground, immediately the girl changed into a turkey.

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.

Then he caught it and took it home and told his wife to kill it and make the food, and they ate it.

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.

She struggled and said, "let me go!".

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.

The sipitillo is very small but his hat is gigantic. He is not big, not tall; he's very little, but pure human.

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