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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".

She takes her head off and goes out to walk around.

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.

Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana. Kimanki.

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

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

I remember what my grandmother and my grandfather told me.

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

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

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".

"Are you hungry, boy?"

Nimayana, nunan. Yajika niwitz.

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

Kunij shikwa sikiera pan por ke tamal te kanaj. Shikwa pan pal panu mumayana.

"Then at least eat some bread, because there are no tortillas; eat bread so your hunger will go away."

Finally, when he wanted to die because he was hungry and because he had nothing, he got out a mirror while it was lightning.

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.

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."

"I said, 'Doña Leonarda, where are you going?'."

Then the woman began to lurch.

"I'm going to tie her up again."

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.