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42 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23 Then she got the boy drunk. The woman got the [young] woman and her husband drunk. They got drunk. They slept now, lying curled up. That daughter-in-law of hers slept now. Just the old lady was there. The old lady didn't fall asleep. She sat there listening for the woman's child to come out, it seems. But it wasn't a baby, not a real baby. It was a hornworm. The woman had a hornworm. The old lady heard that the hornworm was making kissing sounds. It was nursing. Then quickly she went to block off the hornworm's path. The hornworm didn't go [back] in now. It was caught. There were two hornworms. The red hornworm she threw out. The white one she stuck [back] in. Now when the woman woke up she was fine. She awoke. Now the time passed. Then her child was born. Then she had many children. She was the one who had had a red hornworm. Everybody has just one hornworm apiece, even men, they say. And each has his hornworm. Here, as in many other tales, I have translated me7el as "old lady," but the term signifies a woman of the older generation, in her thirties or older. When this cure is administered, a peeled green banana is inserted in the woman's vagina temporarily to prevent the worm's reentry. In Chenalho it is believed that "a woman who is content with her husband has little white worms in her vagina, while a nymphomaniac has little red worms" (Guiteras-Holmes, 1961:130). Sexual license is associated by the Huichol with a kind There was a man, too, who arrived, they say, at work every day, at his work. It reached midday and he knew that he had no children, no one to come and call him. Something came to call out, but he didn't know what it was. It was lying on top of a stump. "Tortor beebee, papa!" said the thing that was calling there. "What's that?" said the man when he finished the row. "Eh, who knows what it is. Maybe it's some kind of animal," he said. The next row finished, the very same thing. "Tortor beebee, papa!" it said. "But what is that? What sonofabitching animal? I guess I'll go see if it's an animal or what. Maybe it's a devil. Maybe I'll die now," said the man. And he went to look. He discovered a hornworm lying on Tortor Beebee, Papa! T106 7Entonse, 7isyakubtas la ti kreme, 7isyakubtas la ti smalale ti 7antze. Bweno, 7iyakub 7un, butajtik xa chvayik xa, chvay xa taj yalibe, jun xa me7el te. Bweno, 7a ti me7el 7une, muk' bu x7och svayel, te chotol ya7yoj k'u 7ora xlok' ti yol ti 7antz ya7el 7une, pero ma7uk 7unen, ma7uk batz'i 7unen, buluk' sat, 7oy la sbuluk' sat ti ti 7antze. Bweno, 7iya7i la ti me7el 7une, ke te la sbutz'lajet ta schu7un ti buluk' sate. 7Ora, j-likel la ba smakbe sbe ti buluk' sat 7une, muk' la x7och xa ti buluk' sat 7une, te stzakoj 7ikom, cha7-kot buluk' sat, 7a ti, 7a ti tzajal buluk' sate, ja7 7isch'ay, 7a ti sake ja7 7istik' ochel. 7Ora, lek 7ijulav ti 7antz 7une, 7iyul sch'ulel 7un. 7Ora 7ibat k'ak'al yech. 7Entonse, 7i7ayan yol 7un. 7Ora, 7ep 7ibat yol 7un, ja7 ti 7oy ti tzajal buluk' sat yu7une, ke skotol krixchano yu7un no 7ox 7oy ju-kot buluk' sat yu7unik, 7ak' 7o mi vinikuk la xiik, 7i 7oy la ju-kot buluk' sat. of white grub. The Aztecs laid the blame on a grey grub that subsists on the roots and stalks of corn plants (Furst and Nahmad, 1972:64-65). The hornworm is the caterpillar of the hummingbird moth that can easily be mistaken for a hummingbird as it darts from flower to flower sipping nectar. Erotic associations extend also to hummingbirds themselves. A sure way to soften a girl's heart is secretly to carry to the trysting place a hummingbird wrapped in green or blue ribbon. 7Oy la yech noxtok jun vinik chk'ot ta 7abtel ju-jun k'ak'al ta yabtel. Bweno, sta ti 7ol k'ak'al 7une, 7i sna7oj ti ch'abal xch'amale, muk' buch'u xk'ot 7ik'onuk. Bweno, 7oy la k'ot 7ok'uk pero mu sna7 k'usi ta sba jun chuman te7 te la kajal. "7A la papa7 cheche7 tata7!" xi la ti k'usi te ch7ok' 7une. "K'usi taje?" xi la k'alal 7ikajtzaj yabtel ti vinike. "7Ej, jna7tik k'usi, te nan k'usi chonal," xi la. 7Otro jmuyel yabtel ja7 no la yech 7iyal. "7A la papa7 cheche7 tata7!" xi la 7un. "Pero k'usi taje che7e, k'usi puta chonal, chba jk'el kik mi chon mi k'usi taje, pukuj nan yu7un nan chicham xa," xi la ti vinike. 71 ba la sk'el 7un, buluk' sat la te kajal j-kot sta ta chuman te7 7un. "7A
the stump. "Oh, hell, I see it's a hornworm here, then. I thought there was something. It's going to cut short my life. Hell, it's too late! I'll die now. Who knows, maybe I'll die from this tomorrow or the day after. I've never seen anything like this. I've never heard of anything like this. Whatever it is, it's calling to me," he said. Then the man lost his temper, quickly he killed the hornworm. Since the man didn't know what it was, he didn't know where the animal came from, he left. He returned home. He arrived to tell about it. He arrived to tell his wife. "Are you there, wife?" he asked. "I'm here," she said. "I'm hungry," he said. "Eat!" she said. "I just don't know what it was—What [it was that] went and called to me, lying there on top of a stump," he told his wife. "What did it sound like to you? What do you think it called?" asked the woman. "Oh, it sounded very strange. Tortor beebee, papa! it kept saying to me," said the man. "Ah!" said the woman. "What did you do? Did you leave it there? Did you do anything to it?" asked the woman. "I killed it. I don't know why. Maybe I'll die now. Maybe it will cut short my life. I've never heard of such a thing. I've never heard it before where I work. Nothing ever comes to call out to me," said the man. "Oh, My <strong>Lo</strong>rd!" said the woman. "Could you have killed that child of mine? Didn't you know what my child was like? The hornworm was my child. That's why I never gave birth," said the woman. The woman cried and cried. "Oh hell, so that's what your child is, then. That's why you don't give birth, you bitch!" said the man. The man kept on bawling her out. The woman cried and cried. "Well, never mind. Take care of yourself! So be it! Get someone to take my place! There's nothing we can do. That was the only child I'll ever have," [she said]. "Now, in three days I will die, because that's the way it is, my child can't die by himself. I'm going too," said the woman. "Is that so?" said the man. "Yes, because that was my very own child, because the hornworm is my child. Didn't you hear it, then? It went to call you [home]. Didn't you understand? Didn't you hear what it told you? Tortillas and beans, papa! it said. So, Go eat some tortillas! Go Eat some beans! was what it was saying. Didn't you ROMIN TERATOL 43 kavron, buluk' sat ka Ii7e che7e, ka7uk to me 7u k'usi yu7un chislabta che7e, kavron, mu xa yorauk yu7un xa chicham, jna7tik xa 7ok'ob cha7ej nan chicham Ii7e, muk' bu xkil yech, muk' bu xka7i yech k'usi xiyok'ita," xi la 7un. 7Ora, 7ikap sjol ti vinike, j-likel 7ismil ti buluk' sate. Bweno, komo li vinike che7e, mu sna7 k'usi, mu sna7 bu talem ti chone, 7ibat la 7un, 7isut la ech'el ta sna, k'ot la yal 7ik'ot yalbe ti yajnile. "Mi Ii7ote, 7antz?" xi la 7un. "Li7one," xi la 7un. "Chive7 che7e," xi la 7un. "Ve7an!" xi la 7un. "Batz'i mu jna7 k'usi, 7an k'usi 7a yok'itaon te kajal ta ba chuman te7," xut la ti yajnil 7une. "K'u x7elan 7ava7i 7un, k'u x7elan 7ava7i ch7ok'?" xi la ti 7antz 7une. "7A batz'i yan xal. 7A la papa? cheche7 tata7 xiyut ta j-mek," xi la ti vinik 7une. "7Aj!" xi la ti 7antz 7une. "K'usi 7acha71e 7un, mi te 7akomes mi k'usi 7acha71e?" xi la ti 7antz 7une. "7Ijmil mu jna7 k'u yu7un yu7un nan chicham xa yu7un nan chislabta, muk' bu xka7i yech mu k'usi xka7i buy xi7abteje, mu k'usi xk'ot yok'itaon," xi la ti vinik 7une. "7Ay kajval!" xi la ti 7antz 7une. "K'an me 7amilbon jutuk kol me taje, mu me xana7 k'u x7elan kol, ja7 me kol i buluk' sate, yech'o me li muk' bu chi7alaje," xi la ti 7antz 7une. 7I7ok' la ta j-mek ti 7antz 7une. "7A kavron, va7i ka k'usi 7avol che7e, yech'o li mu xa7alaje, kavron!" xi la ti vinike. 7I7ilin to la ta j-mek ti vinik 7une, 7ok' la ta j-mek ti 7antz 7une. "Bweno pasensia te k'el aba 7un, teyuk, sa7o jk'exol, mu k'u xu7 jpastik, 7a taje batz'i kol jtuk. "7Ora, ta k'al 7oxib k'ak'al chicham 7un, yu7un ja7 yech mu xu7 ti stuk xcham ti kole yu7un chibat 7uk," xi la ti 7antz 7une. "Mi yech 7un?" xi la ti vinike. "Yech porke yu7un kol ta j-mek taje yu7un me kol i buluk' sate, mi muk' bu xava7i che7e, yu7 me bat yik'ot tal mi muk' bu xava7i, mi muk' bu 7ava7i taj x7elan layalbe? 7A la papa7 cheche? tata7 xie che7e, yu7un me Ba ve7an papa7, ba ti7an chenek' yu7un me xi 7un taje, mi muk' xava7i che7e, yu7un me ba
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