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182 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23 her comadre and her compadre, because that man hadn't a mother or a father anymore. "Your compadre died. I did thus and so just the way you told me. He died. He hadn't anything to live on at all. I did it to him a week ago," she told her comadre. "Oh, that's fine, comadre! What good is a nasty man like that? He just frightens us. How can we eat and sleep comfortably?" said [her] comadre. "That's right. Won't you be so kind, comadre, compadre? Let's go together and bury him!" "Oh we can, comadre. Let's go! It's time to see where his coffin will come from. It's time to see if he has a burial or what." "Ugh, the awful Charcoal Cruncher died. The Charcoal Cruncher's troubles are over. The Charcoal Cruncher business is finished," said each of the funeral guests when they arrived. "We are burying the awful Charcoal Cruncher. Now the Charcoal Cruncher business is over. Now no one's left to eat our charcoal. The charcoal here will just be put in our yards, but before there used to be somebody who ate charcoal," said the men who went to the funeral. That was the conversation of the men at the graveyard. They talked about how the Charcoal Cruncher died. "The Charcoal Cruncher's troubles are over," they said. After they buried him they came back. The woman was happy now. She thought he was the only one. But you see there was another one in the same house. There was a woman still left. But you see, it would fly to the eaves. It would bounce to the eaves. So the woman was terribly frightened by it. It ba—nged around when it left. Then the woman would wake up even if she were fast asleep. It would bounce to the eaves. Cra—shing suddenly now, it left. "What can that be moving around?" she asked her husband. She never had an answer. Oh, she just fell asleep. It was cra—shing about when it left. It bounced out or bounced down on the bed. It isn't that it doesn't make noise. Crashing about, it frightens people. "He'll just kill me of fright. I'm so tired of him," she said. The end. After Tonik has seen the male Charcoal Cruncher to his grave, she intimates that there was a female Charcoal Cruncher, a relative of the first. But unwilling to put an end to her story, she can't resist repeating a few of the scary details once more, before launching on the next chiller. It is unusual for a Charcoal Cruncher to be a man, not a woman. Anyone who has spent a black winter's night in a Zinacantec home, and heard a forest rat munching on the corn vinik 7une. "Chame lakumpare 7une, ja7 me yech ja7 me yech 7ijcha71e k'u cha7al 7avalbone, chame 7un, mu xa me k'usi xipan ta j-mek svaxakibal me k'ak'al ti yech 7ijcha71e," xut la sba xchi7uk ti skumale. "7Oj ja7 lek, kumale, k'u jtu7untik porkeriya vinik la x7elane, xi7el no 7ox chiyak'otik, rm'7n jun ko7on chive7 chivayotik?" xi la ti kumaleil 7une. "Yech'o xal 7un, mi mu xa7abolaj, kumale kumpare, jchi7in jbatik jmuktik." "7An yu7un stak', kumale, battik, ta71o ta71o jk'eltik 7o bu xtal skajonal, ta71o xkiltik 7o mi 7oy smukel k'u x7elan." "7Oj, cham ti mu jk'ux-7ak'ale, laj 7o svokol jk'ux-7ak'al ch'ab xi sk'oplal jk'ux-7ak'al," xi la ju-juntijmuklomal 7ik'ote. "Jmuktik mu jk'ux-7ak'al ch'ab xa me sk'oplal ti jk'ux-7ak'ale mu xa me buch'u sk'ux kak'altik 7un, solel xa me chbat ta yut jmoktik ti 7ak'al H7 a7a, yan ti vo7ne 7oy to 7ox buch'u xk'ux 7ak'al," xi la ti viniketik 7a muklomajuk 7une. Ja7 xa la slo7il ti viniketik ta 7a li mukenal 7une, ja7 la tzlo7iltaik ti x7elan, ti cham jk'ux-7ak'al. "Laj 7o svokol jk'ux-7ak'al," xi la 7un. Va7i 7un, laj smukik 7un, talik 7un, jun xa yo7on ti 7antz 7une, xa7uk la k'ajomuk 7un. Bu yu7un, jun 7o no la ma snailik 7un, 7oy la jun 7antz komem noxtok 7un. Bu yu7un, 7a li ta la xvil ti ta nuk' nae, ta la xp'it ti ta nuk' nae, ja7 no la chi7 7o ti 7antz ta j-mek 7une, xpo—jlajet la ti k'al xlok'e, ja7 la chul 7o xch'ulel 7ak' 7o la mi lek vayem ti 7antze, ta la xp'it ti ta nuk' na, xpu—jlij xa la chlok'. "K'usi van taj chbak'e?" xut la ti smalal 7une. Mu la bu xtak'bat. 7Oj te no la ch7och svayel 7un, xpu—jlajet xa la ti k'al chlok'e, chp'it lok'el, mi chp'it yalel ti ta teme, mu la yu7unuk mu xbak' noxtok 7un, xpujlajet xa la tzsibtasvan. Va7i 7un, "Xi7el xa no 7ox chismil batz'i chtavan," xi la 7un, laj 7o. stored in burlap bags against the wall, and then minutes later heard the family cat bumping among the pots beside the hearth, can feel in his bones the eerie horror of the Charcoal Cruncher. Why charcoal is its diet is not clear to me. In Chenalho charcoal is said to have been the diet of the survivors of the deluge, before they were turned into monkeys (Guiteras-Holmes, 1961:157). See also T12, T82, and their notes, T47, T60, and T175.
TONIK NIBAK 183 The Spook and the Brother-in-Law T127 Once there was a man who went to Chamula. On the way back he met his brother-in-law on the trail. "Let's drink, brother-in-law," he said. He and his brother-in-law got drunk. They came along drunk. They passed by Stzellej Minax [Mine Ridge]. They went on, because the man's house was in Na Chij [Deer House]. They went beyond Na Chij. A comadre of his brother-in-law had a house there. "Comadre, won't you sell me a half-pint or a pint or so?" he said, because she was a shaman [and would have leftover cane liquor]. His comadre [answered], "Take it, compadre, take it. Do you just want a pint?" "Just one [pint], comadre," said his brother-in-law. They took it. They drank it. The brothers-in-law walked down [the trail] just a short distance together. They would be going along for [the last] stretch of the trail. But you see, [one of] the brothers-in-law got drunk. He had drunk a strong dose when they parted company. His brother-in-law's house was probably nearby. "Won't you sleep here in my house, brotherin-law? Will you spend the night?" asked [the second] brother-in-law. "No, brother-in-law, because [my wife], your younger sister, is waiting up, watching the night go by. She doesn't lock the door, she just pushes the door closed for the night. Something might happen to her," said the [first] brother-in-law. He meant to go on. He meant to arrive home. But he never arrived home. He jumped over the stream. Toch' they call it, in Na Chij. He jumped. He landed way off on his knees. He landed rolling, "Oh, hell, I guess I'll sober up," he said. Then he tried to sober up. He fell asleep. He slept soundly. He didn't wake up, not until the devil went and woke him in the evening. He didn't wake up until he felt [his head] being lifted up and jostled. Then he felt his hair being wetted down. He felt the cold, then, it seems. Then, "How come he's burning?" said the Spook. He stood back, he moved away because [the man] was burning. The Spook was scared because he was burning. "Oh, but why did I get burnt?" said the Spook. He fled this far away, then he returned again. "I'll put [the fire] out with water. I'm going to bring the water in my mouth. I'm going to scoop it up in my hands," said the Spook. But it was no fire! It was because the man was 7A ti vo7ne 7oy la jun vinik 7ay la ta Chamu7 sut la talel 7un, 7ista la ta be sbol. "Kuch'tik 7a li, bol," xi la. 7Iyakub la xchi7uk ti sbol 7une, jyakubelik la tal 7un. Va7i 7un, 7i7ech'ik la ta Stzellej Minax, 7ibatik la 7un yu7un la Na Chij sna ti vinik 7une. Va7i 7un, k'otik la ta sjelavel Na Chij 7un, 7o la te jun sna skumale taj sbol 7une. "Kumale, mi muk' bu xachonbon junuk kwarta junuk meria mi k'u xi?" xi la 7un. Yu7un la j7ilol 7un. Va7i 7un, 7a ti skumale 7une, "7Ich'o, kumpare, 7ich'o, mi jun nox meria chak'an?" "Jun nox, kumale," xi la ti bolil 7une. Va7i 7un, yich'ik la 7un, yuch'ik la 7un, 7a ti bolil 7une, naka xa no la jun soral li xchi7in sbaik yalel 7un, stuk xa la bat j-tuch' be. Bu xavil, ti mu bolil 7une, 7iyakub la 7un, tzotz xa la yuch'oj taj 7ixch'ak sbaik, yu7un nan nopol xa sna ti sbole. "Mi muk' chavay H7 ta jnae, bol, mi xach'amun na?" xi la ti bolil 7une. "Mo7oj, bol, ja7 ta ja7 ti 7avixlel te ta xmalavan te xk'elk'on chbat 7ak'ubal, ja7 la mu sna7 smak snae, naka nox tznup' vayuk i snae, naka me 7u k'u spas," xi la ti bolil 7une. Va7i 7un, bat la ti chal 7une, xa7uk la xk'otuk ti ta sna. Bu, muk' la xk'ot li ta sna 7une, sp'itu la li 7uk'um 7a li Toch' xkaltik ta Na Chij 7une, p'it la 7un. Bu, taj to la kejel 7ik'ote xbalet to la k'ot 7un. "7Ii kavron, jkux ka7tik," xi la 7un. Lajeltza tzkux la ti chal 7une, 7och 7o la svayel, vay la ta j-mek 7un, mu la bu yul xch'ulel 7un, ja7 to la ba tijvanuk ti pukuj ta 7ak'ubaltik 7une, ja7 to la cha7i ti toyilanat tijulanat, mu la bu yul 7o xch'ulel. Va7i 7un, ja7 to la cha7i ti yolel xa stzebiltasat 7une, cha7i xa sik ya7el 7une. Ja7 to, "K'u van yu7un ti chtile?" xi la ti j7ik'al 7une. Chlok' lok' la ech'el ti chtil 7une, ta la xxi7 7un, yu7un la chi7 ti mu j7ik'al ti chtil 7une. "7A pero k'u yu7un 7a ti xik'ak'e?" xi la ti j7ik'ale. Va7i 7un, chjatav la ech'el xi snatil, ja7 7o la tzsut tal noxtok. "Ta jtup' ta vo7, chba jkum tal vo7, chba jk'et tal ta jk'ob," xi la ti j7ik'al 7une. Sk'et la tal ti vo7 7une, ta la xtal stup' ti k'ok' 7une. Buy, mu la ma k'ok'uk 7un, yu7un la ma jyakubel
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