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He gave her a block of wood to sit on; "sit down", he said.

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."

"We're going now", said the old man; "you go too, but don't forget, come anytime with your son; here are his friends to play with".

"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."

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

The iron-toothed-old-woman sensed it; she came to go see it.

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

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

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."

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.

Yajki kitantia ne itan. Nepa ten kebrada kitantia ne itan pal kikwa ne piltzitzin.

She went to sharpen her teeth, there by the edge of the canyon she sharpened her teeth so she could eat the little boy.

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 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.

Kunij inaket los tres pwes yek (ne) tay tikchiwtuk pero bien naja nikneki shikchiwa nuwan ne jwabor (juabor), shinechilwiti siquiera kan nemi ne plumas? Kan nakak ne ujumiu? Pal niyaw nikita kan nemi.

Then the three said, "well, what you have done is all right, but I want you to do me a favor". "Show me, at least, where the feathers are, where the bones were left, so I can go see where they are".

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.

That's what my grandfather and grandmother told me, and big storms always come, but we never saw if one came to fall. So, today I am telling this to my friend so he can take this story with him as a remembrance.

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."

"Then bring me some more sandwiches; I'll put them in my bag to eat tomorrow."

Therefore, here in my bag are big cowpies; that's what I ate, not bread.

Therefore when I go back to the arch, I'm going to speak to my father to chew him out."

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.

"On the sly I tied her up with my belt and I'm bringing her here to see if it's true that it's not you."

"That's why I got up to light the fire to warm up."

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.

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.