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266 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23 cut up properly with a machete. They didn't cut his body into just two pieces when they cut him up. God, his face—he didn't get just a single blow! But it seems that his face was sewn up well. It was remade again. He just revived, since he just wouldn't die. He probably didn't even feel it, either. He went again. He went the same way again. He returned, again. I don't know if it was a week or two weeks later that he returned again. He went, taking two hens along with him. "Nanita, fix ze meal. I eat!" said the Spook. He arrived. "Ah, give it to me. Bring it to me! If you are hungry, eat! Come, we'll fix it. I'll rinse my corn. I haven't any tortillas," she told him. "All right, I'll wait," he said. Oh, his horrible eyes, his horrible teeth. They'd give you a fright! His horrible wide eyes. His awful eyes were red, said the person who told about it. "His awful eyes were red. You'd be scared of him, it seems. You certainly wouldn't eat with him, it seems," she said. "Did you eat with him like that?" I asked, myself. "I ate [with him]," she said. "Ah!" I said. "As for me, I wouldn't eat with him," I said. "Ah, ah, I certainly ate. I ate with him, and we ate the chicken. Eat! I'll eat, too! we told him, because we had already decided what he should get," she said. The tip was sharpened. It seems he finished eating. They ate. She served his meal, the woman's meal and the woman's children's meal. They ate. They finished eating. The gentleman burped. "Ahh!" he said. Then, "Bu—rr" he burped. "Well, Nanita, thank you for the meal. Do you still have some food? Do your children still have something to eat?" he said. "They do!" she told him. "Fine!" he said. "Well, spend a good night, Nanita! Spend a good night, Nanita," said the Spook. "All right," she said. The tip of a stake was well sharpened. It was at the door. He came upon it at the door. It impaled him, went up his ass, came out his mouth. Then they caught him. They looked at how it came out of his mouth. He was spitted on the stake like that. "There's no problem, then, having won out like this. Now, that's all. We'll roast him on the fire," she said. They roasted him on the fire. They roasted him on the fire, like when we roast a rabbit. He was spitted on a stake. They roasted him on the fire. Wouldn't he die of that? To this day there aren't any more Spooks. spat xxokon i xcha71ebeik ta jmek stuch'ilan, yo7s 7a li ssate yu7n mu j-mojmojuk 7iyich', pero yu7n la le—k stz'isulanoj yilel li ssate, cha7-meltzaj la noxtok, ja—7 no la yech kuxi muk' 7o no la xcham. Va7i 7un, mu7 no nan xa7i 7o ta j-mek noxtok 7un bat la noxtok yech 7un cha7-k'ot la, mu jna—7 mi ta svaxakibal k'ak'al mi ta yo7-lajunebal k'ak'al cha7-k'o—t la noxtok 7un bat la 7un yich'oj la ech'el cha7-kot me7 kaxlan 7un. "Nanita, chapas ti komira, ta spas komer!" xi la ti j7ik'al 7une. K'ot la 7un. "7A, 7isik 7ich'o tal mi7n chave7e ve7an Ia7 jmeltzantik ta to jsap jpanin 7a li mu7yuk buy 7a li kot," xut la 7un. "Beno, ta jmala," xi la 7un. 7A la la ti sijil sa—t sijil tanal 7e 7une xi7el la xavich', 7a ti sil levlev sate tzoji—k la ti smu sat 7une xi ti buch'u tzlo7ilta 7une. "Tzojik ti smu sate xixi7otik yilel mu7 nox xave7 7achi7uk yilel," xi 7un. "Mi7n nave7 7achi7uk yech 7un?" xkut i vo7on 7une. "Nive7," xi. "7A!" xkut. "7A li vo7one mu xive7 jchi7uk," xkut. "7A, 7a Iive7 li vo7on a7a Iive7 jchi7uk 7i 7i 7a li 7ijti7tik6tik ti kaxlane. Ve7an me 7un! Chive7 7uk 7un, xkuttikotik 7un. Yu7 xa 7onox jnopojbetikotik sk'oplal ti k'u xi chich' 7une," xi. Va7i 7un, 7a li 7anbil la sni7, 7ilaj la ve7uk ya7el 7un, 7ive7ik la 7un, spechan la sve7el, sve7el ti 7antz 7une, yalabtak ti 7antz 7une ve7ik la 7un, laj ve7ikuk 7un. Va7i 7un, keban la ti mole. "7Ajj!" xi la 7un. Ja7 7o la "ke—7!" xi keban 7un. Va7i 7un, "Beno, Nanita, kol aval Iive7, mi 7o to Iave7el 7une mi 7o to k'u tzti7 lavoltake?" xi la 7un. "7Oy!" xut la un. "Bweno!" xi la 7un. "Beno 7a li paso la noche, Nanita, paso la noche, Nanita," xi la ti j7ik'al 7une. "Beno," xi la 7un. Lek la 7anbil sni7 ti jun te7 te ta ti7 na 7une. Va7i 7un, te la sta li ti7 na 7une xi la xojol 7och la ta sbe stzo7, lok' k'al ye. Va7i 7un, ja7 la 7istzakik 7un sk'elik taj x7elan 7o lok' ta ye 7une, te xojol ta te7 yech 7un. "Mu k'usi k'op 7un che7e lavi x7elan 7ijpastik kanal yeche, 76ra lavi 7une mu k'usi 7un ta jbakubtastik ta k'ok'," xi la 7un. Sbakubtasik la ta k'ok', sbakubtasik ta k'ok' 7un chak k'u cha7al bu jvotik t'ul, te xojol ta te7 7un. Va7i 7un, sbakubtasik la ta k'ok' 7un, mu ja7uk to cham 7o 7un ja7 to lavi ch'abal xa j7ik'al 7oe,
They roasted him over the fire. He was well-done. They turned him over from side to side. They used up lots of logs for him. I don't know if it was six logs or eight logs or what that were used up so that he would be well-done. He was cooked. They set him afire. They put kerosene on him, so that he would die. Die for good. There aren't any now. Once you couldn't go anywhere. You couldn't go out, not for getting firewood nor for getting water. You could at this hour, but if it reached three o'clock, four o'clock, you couldn't go anywhere. At eight o'clock [in the morning] you couldn't go anywhere. At nine o'clock then you usually could. But just if it were nearby. If it were far away, you couldn't, since it was dark under the trees. They would just be squatting [there]. There were lots and lots of Spooks long ago. You see how tricky the ones who were crossed with people turned out! Bad, bad, wicked. They stole so often. The things they did were so wicked. All they ate was chicken. Just chickens, just turkeys, they would go and steal from the houses. Long ago they would reach Chiapa. They would steal [things] and bring them in crates. Long ago it was different. The Chiapanecs would go selling bread in crates. I don't know if you have seen the crates. They stacked the bread in them. The whole crate. [The Spook] returned to the lady's house. He ate chicken. Yes! "I'll be back, I'm going to get food for you," he said—that lady was told. "All right," she said. He left. He went to get it—that crate. He returned. The poor thing didn't know he would die. "Let him get used to us. Come on, we'll get him used [to us]," they said. He got used to them. So he went to get bread. He brought a crate of that bread. Just good bread. So they made his coffee for him. He drank his coffee. Then he stretched his legs and went out. He landed on a little sharpened stake. There he stayed! So the Spooks have disappeared to this day. Now there aren't any Spooks. You never hear of them now. There are very few left now, only where a road is being made or if something is being constructed somewhere. Then you hear tell of Spooks, highwaymen. But you don't see them much anymore like you did long ago. Long ago you couldn't even go outside. It was scary because we were killed by Spooks. In this latter day version of how the progeny of a Spook and a Zinacantec woman were eradicated, Tonik provides many of the same details as in the opening and closing scenes of "The Spook and the Comadre" (T71), but the drama is greatly heightened. This is not a third or fourth hand story, but purportedly was a play-by-play, word-for-word description, told to Tonik by the TONIK NIBAK 267 sbakubtasik ta k'ok' 7un ta7aj lek 7un, xjoyij ta j-jot xjoyij ta j-jot, lek 7iyak'beik sk'echobal, mu jna7 mi vak-p'ej k'echob mi vaxak-p'ej k'echob k'u la xi laj yo7 ti ta—7aj 7o lek 7une, ta7aj 7un stijanbeik sk'ak'al 7un yak'beik la kas 7un, yo7 ti cham 7oe, cham 7o ta j-moj 7un ch'abal xa lavi 7une, 7a ti vo7nee che7e mu stak' bu xibatti—k mu stak' xilok'otik mi si7bejuk mi ja7bejuk, stak' la x7elan 7ora Ii7e, pero mi sta 7oxib 7ora chanib 7ora mu xa stak' bu xibattik, ta vaxakib 7ora mu stak' bu xibattik, ta baluneb ja7 stak'tak'tik xa, pero ti mi nopol nox noxtok 7une, mi nome mu stak', mu stak' ja7 li 7ik'-kuja—n li yolon te7 7un, naka la ja7 xok'ajtik, batz'i 7animal la ti j7ik'al vo7nee. Va7i x7elan manyoso xa lok' ti ti krusado xa ta krixchano 7une, chopol chopol manyoso tol x7elk'aj, tol tol manyoso k'usi xispas, naka ka—xlan la tzti7 ta j-mek 7un taje, naka la kaxlan naka la tuluk' chba yelk'an tal ta naetik, 7a la ti vo7nee chk'ot la k'al Soktom ta la xelk'an tal ta garlo, 7a ti vo7nee che7e j-chop 7o, 7a li kaxlan vaj chba xchon i jsoktometike ta garlo, 7a li mu jna7 mi 7o xavil 7a li kolol te7e, ja7 te tzlatzik ech'el li kaxlan vaje, sjunul la, sjunul la kolol te7 7un te yul tzna taj jmeme7tik 7isti7 kaxlan 7une. "Te chital chba jsa7 tal 7ave7elik," yu7n la xi 7un. Taj 7a li x7utat taj jmeme7tik 7une. "Teyuk," xi la 7un. Va7i 7un, bat la 7un ba la ssa7 tal 7un ja7 taj j-p'ej la kolol te7 7iyul 7une mu sna7 mi te chcham i povre 7une. "Nopuk ku7untik Ia7 jnopestik," xiik la 7un. Nop yu7unik 7un ja7 taj 7a ssa7 tal kaxlan vaj, jun la kolol te7 taj kaxlan vaj yich'oj tale naka la lekik kaxlan vaj. Va7i 7un, ja7 ta 7ismeltzanbe skajve, yuch' skajve, ja7 taj xach' sba lok'el 7un lek 7i7och ta 7unin 7unin 7anbil te7 7un, te kom 7o 7un, lavi yo7 li ch'ay 7o li j7ik'al k'al tana 7une, ch'abal xa j7ik'al 7un, mu xa bu xka7itik tana 7un, smelol xa bu mi 7o tzmeltzaj be mi 7o bu 7oy tzmeltzaj k'u tzmeltzaj ja7 xa 7o xvinaj x7ale li j7ik'ale, li jmak-bee, pero mu xa bu mas xkiltik chak k'u cha7al ti vo7nee, 7a taj vo7nee mi ja7uk la xalok' ta pana, xi7el sba yu7n chilajotik ta j7ik'al. very woman who sat with the Spook, fed, and killed him! The heroine remarks that she thinks her visitor is only a countryman pretending to be a Spook, presumably to allay his suspicions so that he will lower his guard. While the Spook is in the midst of his meal, the tension is increased by Tonik's brief allusion, "The tip was sharpened," for everyone knows what
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