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190 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23 They breed too fast. One child a night. How could we win? Some hunters passed by behind a cave. There where the cave was. The hunters passed by. "What men are you? Take me ou—t. Come, take me awa—y!" "We can't take you away now because we haven't anything to get you out with. The cave is too deep. I'll come to hunt and I'll bring my lasso to get you out," answered [one of] the hunters. They went to hunt on purpose there where she was. They took their rope. They threw it down. "I've come. Come on out! It's me whom you told to get you out," said [one of] the men. The woman came out. Her children were li—ned up along the hem of her skirt. They grabbed the hem of her skirt. They stuck on, one after another. One of her little children came out. She had a hard time pulling off all the others. Six of that woman's children stayed behind it seems. Now the one that came out sticking to her skirt was already walking. It was following right behind. It went to the house of that woman. [The hunters] looked for four staves when they arrived at her house, when they arrived to return that woman at the house of her father and mother, it seems. There where she went out she had been pouring out the lime water when she was stolen away a long time before. They arrived there. They looked for those four staves. They held a curing ceremony. She had a curing ceremony. Her candles were offered [at the shrines], but they did no good. That Spook went there three nights searching. He just wanted to steal his wife back. But that child of his, the little baby Spook, they stuck in the fire so he would die. As for that old Spook, this is what they did about him— those four staves at the edge of her bed guarded her. They guard people. He never could take the woman away. But you see, I don't know if the woman lasted one month or three weeks. She died. The woman just peed lime water. She had diarrhea. That's how the woman died when she returned it seems. They buried her. The Spook kept coming all the time, frightening people. He thought his wife was still there. When he returned, it seems she had died already. She had already been buried. The woman had entered the grave. The Spook hadn't wanted his wife to die. He thought she was still alive. He wanted to take her to his house another time. The people were scared. They were upset about him wandering and wandering about, coming to look and look [for his wife]. They just assembled to Va7i toj tol 7ep ta xp'ole. Va7i ju-jun yol ju-jun 7ak'ubal 7une, yu7 van ta skuch ku7untik 7un, 7i7ech' la jtuk'aviletik ti ta pat spat ti ch'en 7une, te ya7el ti ch'en 7une, 7ech' la ti jtuk'avil 7une. "Buch'uoxuk viniketi—k, lok'esiko—n, Ia7 7ik'ikon lok'e—1!" "Mu xu7 xakik' lok'el lavi a7a, yu7un mu k'u xajlok'es 7o, toj nat li ch'ene, ta xital ta paxyal yalal chkich' tal jriata chajlok'es 7un," xi la ti jtuk'avil 7une. Yalal la bat ta tuk'avil yo7 ti buy 7une, 7iyich' la ech'el sriata 7un, sjip la yalel. "Li7 me nital 7une, iok'an tal 7un, vo7on ti 7avalojbon chajlok'ese," xi la ti viniketik 7une. Va7i 7un, lok' la tal ti 7antz 7une. K'u xavil 7un, xchole—t la ti yol ta sti7il stzek 7une, stzak sti7il stzek ju-jun ju-jun 7un, tzakal la 7ilok' tal ti jun yunen 7ol 7une, vokol la laj sjipan lok'el ti yan 7une, vak-vo7 la kom yoltak ya7el taj 7antz 7une, 7a li yantike ta xa la xxanav, 7a taj jun tzakal lok'el ta stzek 7une, te la tijil ech'el 7un, ja7 la bat 7o 7un ta sna taj 7antz 7une, 7issa7ik la chanib 7ak te7 ti k'al k'ot ta sna ti k'ot yak'el 7entrokal taj 7antz bu sna stot bu sna sme7 ya7el bu lok' 7une, yu7un la jmal-tanil-vo7 ti k'alal 7i7elk'anat lok'el ti vo7ne. Va7i 7un, 7a li te 7ik'ot 7un 7issa7ik la taj chanib 7ak te7 7une, 7iyalik la vokol, 7iyich' la 7ilel, 7i7och la skantela, pero mu la sbalin, 7a taj j7ik'ale 7oxib la 7ak'ubal te 7a ssa7el tzk'an no 7ox chelk'an lok'el tal ti yajnil 7une, yan taj xch'amal 7une stik'ik la ta k'ok' 7un, yo7 la ti xcham 7o taj 7unen k'ox j7ik'al 7une, 7a taj mol j7ik'al 7une, ja7 taj x7elan 7ixcha71eik, 7i ba xchabi ya7el li taj chanib 7ak te7 ta sti7 stem 7une, ja7 la chabivan 7un, mu la bu stzak yu7un lok'el ti 7antz. Bu xavil 7un, mu jna7 mi jun 7u mi 7oxib xemana k'u xa xi jok'tzaj ti 7antz 7une, 7icham la 7un, naka la tanil vo7 ta sk'abta xa ti 7antz 7une, tambil la labal tza7nel 7un, ja7 yech 7icham 7o ya7el ti 7antz ti k'alal 7isut tal 7une. Va7i 7un, 7ismuk la 7un, 7animal la xk'ot sibtasvanuk ti j7ik'al 7une, xa7uk la teyuk to ti yajnil 7un, ti k'alal 7isut ya7el 7icham xa mukbil xa 7ochem xa ta ch'en ti 7antze, pero mu7nuk ta 7a li yo7onuk xa ti chamem yajnil ti j7ik'ale, 7a ti yaloje, yu7un kuxul to yu7un sk'an chik' ech'el 7otro j-7ech'el ti ta sna 7une. Va7i 7un, 7ixi7 la ti krixchanoetik 7une, yan sba cha7i ti te xva7von te xva7von ya7el chk'ot sk'elulan 7une, solel la spa7ibeik yajval 7un, chan-vo7 la vinik
get him. Four men gathered together at night. They shot at him. They just shot at him, but they never hit him. It wasn't until they went to look in that cave that the woman had been taken out of. They went to kill him with guns. He died, the old one died. But his children were left. So then the women assembled to get them. They died of boiling water. They burned them. They would cook a turkey for them. Now they won't finish eating their turkey. Sometimes the Spooks are scalded to death with boiling water. Or else, when the hot water is bubbling, when the water is boiling, then they scald the Spooks first. Or else when their meal is bubbling—"Wait, drink a little coffee," they would say. Then when they touched the gourd to their lips they would throw the boiling water at them and scald them. That's how they killed them. They cut them to pieces with machetes so that their flesh wouldn't stick together. [The people] called them Hairy Hands long ago. They couldn't be killed unless they were scalded with boiling water. That's how they got rid of the Spooks long ago. You see that's how the Spooks have gotten fewer. Long ago we couldn't go outside until nine o'clock. At three o'clock you close up the house, close the door. You'd better have your water, your things [inside]. A load of firewood is put inside during the day. No more can come in. Then we draw our water. We can't go anywhere. The house is closed. Someplace inside you go to the bathroom. Look for a place to go to the bathroom. We can't go outside. We were closed up inside long ago. My mother told about it. It seems it was my mother's grandmother who saw it. But now there aren't any. God willing there aren't any Spooks now. There's nothing to scare people, because they were scalded to death with boiling water. They were burnt up. Long ago the fires were made for them. It was her comadre who spoke to her. "Comadre, what is it, what is it, your corn boiled over. Look!" But it wasn't her comadre who answered, it was the Spook now. "The corn's ready, coma—dre, the corn's ready, coma—dre!" the Spook answered. They went to look. What do you think? It was the Spook they found. The Spook fled, but he was caught on a stake by the door. His ass was impaled. It came out his mouth. They burned him up. "Lime water" is the same as nixtamal water, that is, the water used to boil corn before it is ground. The use of staves to protect a person from Spooks seems to be peculiar to this and the following tale. In Tenejapa a pole of the ch'ijt bush is said to be protection from Spooks, as it "will burst into flames upon seeing evil demons" (Stross, 1973:105). Ch'it in TONIK NIBAK 191 7istzob sbaik ta 7ak'ubaltik stuk'aik la 7un, naka la stuk'aik pero mu no la bu staik 7un, ja7 to la ti ba sk'elik taj yo7 buy taj ch'en lok'esbil tal taj 7antz 7une, ba smilik la ta tuk' 7un, 7icham 7icham ti mol ya7el 7une. K'usi ja7 7ikom ti xch'amaltak 7une, ja7 to taj 7ispa7i sbaik taj 7antzetik 7une ja7 taj ta k'ak'al vo7 xa 7ixchik' la ech'el j-kot tuluk' spanbeik la. 7Ora, mu xlaj sti7 ti stuluk'e, 7o la ja7 ba7yi chlaj ta tulel ta-;k'ak'al vo7 taj j7ik'al, mo7oje ja7 la xbalbon i k'ak'al vo7e, chvokan ya7el ti k'ak'al vo7e, ja7 taj tztulik ba7yi taj 7a li j7ik'ale, mo7oje ja7 la xbalbon li sve7ele. "Malao 7un 7uch'an j-tz'ujuk kajve," xi. K'alal stijan ti boch ta ye 7une, ja7 7o la tzk'ebbeik k'ak'al vo7 tztulik 7un, ja7 la tzmilik 7un, 7o la 7istuch'ilanik ta machita yo7 ti mu xa stzak 7o sba ti sbek'tal 7une, ja7 la ti tzotz k'ob sbi yu7unik ti vo7ne 7une, yech'o xal ti mu la xcham ta milel naka la ta k'ak'al vo7 7itul yu7unik 7ich'ay 7o ti j7ik'al ti vo7ne 7une. Va7i 7un, k'u xi xi bik'taj ti j7ik'aletike, 7a ti vo7ne mu la stak' xibatotikotik ta pana stama 7a li baluneb 7ora, 7oxib 7ora, yu7un xamaklan ta na mako sti7 7ana 7oyuk 7ava7al 7oyuk k'u 7oy 7avu7un, 7a ti si7e, j-chep la ch7och ta k'ak'al mu la xu7 x7och mas, ja7 7o ta jpul ka7altikotik mu xa stak' bu xibatotikotik makal na, te xa 7oyuk buy xach'ay aba ta yut na, sa7bo yav ti k'usi chach'ay 7o abae, mu xa stak' xilok'otikotik makalotikotik ta na ti vo7ne la ti slo7iltaoj ti jme7e, ti smuk'ta me7 ti jme7 ti buch'u yiloj ya7el 7une, yan lavi 7une, mu xa buy 7un, sk'anuk 7o ti kajvaltike, ch'abal xa j7ik'al 7un, mu xa k'u sibtasvan 7un, ja7 taj 7ilaj ta tulel ta k'ak'al vo7 7ilaj ta chik'el tzobbat sk'ak'al ti vo7ne 7une. Ja7 ti skumale 7une, 7iyalbe la sbaik 7un, "Kumale, k'usi ti k'usi 7imal 7avu7un taj 7ajuxe, k'elo kik!" Bu yu7un, ma7uk xa 7itak'av ti kumaleil 7une ja7 xa la tak'av ti j7ik'al. "Jux tale kuma—le jux tale kuma—le!" xi la tak'av ti j7ik'al 7une. Va7i 7un, ba la sk'elik 7un, k'u xa chavil 7un, j7ik'al la te 7a staik 7un, jatav lok'el taj j7ik'al 7une, ja7 taj pajal 7ista te7 ta ti7 na 7une, xojol 7ik'ot ta xchak 7un, lok' ta ye 7un, 7ixchik' ta k'ok' 7un. Zinacantan is the brush cherry {Eugenia sp.), but I have never heard of such a use ascribed to it. Tonik identifies Hairy Hands as Spooks, while Xun Vaskis claims that they are rain creatures, Tutelary Gods of the Chiapanecs (T157). This tale is paralleled by an account from Chamula. A woman
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