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392 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
Those elders of long ago, they made an agreement
[with the Long Hair] about having a line [drawn], as
we say.
When he rose up and when he came down, those
elders of long ago had already jumped aside, as we
say. They had staves, since there weren't any machetes.
There wasn't anything long ago. [Just]
staves. Have you seen the one the Old Spook carries?
The stave is a round, black stick. That's what
they would kill [him] with. But when he came down
they simply struck him over and over. But he kept
bouncing back from death. He wouldn't die either.
They had a hard time killing him—that Long Hair.
Yes!
Those elders of long ago went as far as Chiapa.
They went to Chiapa. "Well, how did you get by?"
asked those people in Chiapa.
"We killed him," they said.
"Eh, I don't believe it," they said. It wasn't
believed that they killed him. They aroused their
countrymen. And they came to look there [to see] if
it was true that he died. Lord, he was lying face up.
He was dead. And they were gi—ven lots of money.
The money they were given [came] simply in muleloads.
All the muleteers' things were there, the packs. A
cave was jammed full, too. They went to get them
out. They found money.
After that the trail was open, as we say. [The
trouble with] the devil ended, ended right away, it
seems, as we say. He died, it seems. Ye—s!
The devil died, it seems. They opened the trail.
That's how that little story ends.
Rey describes the stave used to kill the Long Hair as being like
the one carried by molj7ik'al, "Old Spook." By "Old Spook" he
is referring to a Carnival character, usually called tot j7ik'al or
"Sir Spook." This role is often assigned to Rey's father in
recognition of his ability to trade outrageously obscene jokes
There was a man and his wife, as we say.
The man went to the woods, as we say. He left
that wife of his standing on the trail where she was
waiting for him. I don't know if ... what's
that called? That deer hunt, hunting for whatever
could be found on the earth.
He left.
But you see, the Earth Lord came along. Quickly
that Earth Lord took that woman inside a cave,
inside his house, it seems.
Rabbit Wins and Rabbit Loses
T169
Va7i, taj vo7ne moletik 7une, taj spasik trate la taj
x7elan taj 7oy raya xkaltik 7une.
Va7i, k'alal xmuy 7une, k'alal xyal tal ja7 la p'it xa
7ox la lok'el taj vo7ne moletik xkaltik 7une, 7o la yak
te7 7un, komo ch'abal machita ch'abal k'usi 7oy ti
vo7ne 7une, ju-jun 7ak te7 ja7 li mi 7o xavil li 7a li
stom mol j7ik'ale, 7a li 7ak te7 7ik'-balan te7e, ja7 la
chmilvan 7o 7un, pero k'alal xyal la tale solel la
tzt'usbe ta j-mek, pero yech la stzuktzon ta milel mu
la xcham noxtok, mu xcham noxtok, 7icham la yu7un
ta vokol 7un, taj jnatikil jol 7une. Ji7!
Va7 7un, bat la k'alal Soktom taj taj vo7ne moletik
7une, bat k'al Soktom 7un. "Beno, k'u xi lajelav tal?"
xi la taj taj krixchanoetik ta Soktom 7une.
"Laj ku7un," xi la 7un.
"7E, mu jch'un," xi la 7un. Mu la xch'unbat ti 7ilaj
yu7un 7une, stij la xchi7iltak 7un, 7i tal la sk'elel taj ti
buy mi yech ti 7ilaj taj 7une, kere, te la javal 7un,
lajem la 7un, 7i jun tak'in la 7ak'ba—t solel ta ta
mulaetik no la ti tak'in 7i7ak'bat la 7une.
Va7 7un, teee la skotol k'usuk yu7un taj
7aryeroetike ti 7ikatzile teee la tzinil jun ch'en
noxtok 7un, 7a la tzlok'esik 7un, 7o la tak'in k'u staik
7un.
Va7 7un, laj laj taj 7une, 7ijam ti be xkaltik 7une,
ch'ab ch'ab xi li pukuj ya7el xkaltik 7une, cham
ya7el. Jii7!
7Icham ya7el li pukuj 7une, 7ijam i be yu7un 7une,
7ilaj 7o yech taj j-koj 7unen kwento taj 7une.
with the Carnival goers. His stave, the same kind carried by
Tenejapanecs, also figures in Tales 71, 145, and 131.
This is the only version of the Long Hair tales that explicitly
identifies Long Hairs as cannibals. See also T10, T95, T104, and
their notes.
7O la jun vinik xchi7uk jun yajnil xkaltik.
Bweno, li vinike bat ta te7tik xkaltik, yajnile
sva7an komel ta be ti bu chmalaate taj yajnil 7une,
mu jna7 mi k'usi sbi taje, taj taj sa7-te7tikil chij, ssa7
ja7 ti k'usi sta ta balamile.
Bweno, 7ibat la 7un.
K'u xavil, tal la yajval balamil, j-likel la 7iyik'
ochel taj 7antz ta ta yut ch'en ta sna ya7el taj yajval
balamile.