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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.

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

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

Kishipejket wan kimakaket ne inlama ma kimana. Kimanki.

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

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."

Ashan shikitzkikan tulama. Ma kipanulti ne iashish!

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

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.

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.