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76 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
Angrily she tosses a glass of water in his face and transforms him
into a dog. She beats the dog out of her house. It is chased by
other dogs into a butcher's shop, is kicked out, and dashes into a
baker's shop. The baker keeps it as a pet. One day the dog proves
that it can tell the difference between false coins and true gold.
After the dog has gained some notoriety for its feat, an old
woman comes in and tells it to separate the six good coins from
the false. When it succeeds, the woman takes it home. She tells
Once [two] green crickets were caught by the
dark.
Now when it grew dark each of them looked for a
home. There was a drunken woman lying there on
the ground. But the crickets were compadres. One
went up her pussy. The other went up her ass.
Now the drunken woman was raped during the
night [by a man]. The woman was abused all night
long.
Now the next morning the crickets came out of
their house. They talked to each other. "Did you
spend a good night, compadre?" one asked.
"God, I spent a terrible night, compadre because a
drunk came to my house last night, but he threw up
all over the inside of my house," said the one who
slept inside her pussy. The drunk that he spoke of
was the prick poking away. The vomit he spoke of
was the semen.
"Did you spend a good night, compadre?" he
asked the other one.
"As for me, compadre, a drunk came knocking on
my door, too, but I simply never opened it for him,"
he said. The drunk he was speaking of were the balls
bouncing on her ass. That was the drunk knocking
on the door, of course. That's what they say, but
who knows if it's true.
Long ago there was a flood. The dwarfs died—the
first people. Some died. Some shut themselves up in
coffins. Some climbed trees. They crunched nuts.
They lived on acorns. The world was flooded long
ago.
They were transformed. Their tails appeared.
Then hair appeared. They turned into monkeys.
Well, that's how the world ended long ago.
Then came another kind of people. Then it was us.
The dwarfs are down below, but they say that they
pray to the gods all the time. They have gotten tired
A Long, Hard Night for Crickets
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The Flood and the Dwarfs
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her daughter to toss a cup of water on the dog. It is restored to
its human form. The old woman advises the man to douse his
wife too with water. When he does so, she turns into a mare.
The caliph sees the man riding his mare, beating it savagely.
When he has learned the man's sad tale, he orders him to douse
his mare with water. Once again a woman, she becomes a loving
wife. Moral: Don't mistreat animals as they may be enchanted
people (Hoopes, 1968:100-105).
7A li yaxal chile, 7i7ik'ub la yu7unik 7osil ti
vo7nee.
7Ora, k'alal 7i7ik'ub ti 7osile 7issa7 la snaik ju-kot,
yu7un la 7oy te lomem ta lum jun jyakubel 7antz,
pero li chile skumpare la sbaik, 7a li j-kote ta mis la
7i7och, 7a li j-kote ta be tzo7 la 7i7och.
7Ora, li jyakubel 7antze, 7ay la stael ta vinik ta
7ak'ubaltik, te 7ilevanat li 7antze sjunul 7ak'ubal.
7Ora, k'al 7isakub 7osil 7une, 7ilok'ik ta snaik li
chile, 7isk'opon sbaik. "K'u xa7elan lasakub,
kumpa?" xi la li j-kote.
"Yos, batz'i vokol 7isakub ku7un, kumpa, yu7un
7i7ay jun jyakubel ta jna samel pero batz'i 7ixen
komel ta j-mek ta yut jna," xi la ti j-kote, ti buch'u
tik'il 7ivay ta mise. 7A li jyakubel chal 7une, ja7 la li
7at te xpajpon 7une, 7a li xeil chal 7une, ja7 la li
pwersa 7at 7une.
7A li j-kot 7une, "K'u xa7elan lasakub vo7ote,
kumpa?" xi la.
"7A li vo7one, kumpa, 7i7ay 7ox stijulan sti7 jna
jun jyakubel 7uk pero solel muk' bu 7ijjambe," xi la.
7A li jyakubel chal 7une, ja7 la li nuti7al 7at tey
xchepchon ta be tzo7 7une, ja7 la jyakubel tztij ti7 na
7un bi, xiik pero mu jna7tik mi yech.
7A ti vo7ne 7ital nojel, 7icham ti konchaveetike ti
ba7yi krixchanoe, cham j-7o71ol, 7isbaj sbaik ta kajon
j-7o71ol, 7imuyik ta te7 j-7o71ol, 7isk'uxik ssat te7,
7iyipanik chochob, 7inoj ti balamil vo7nee.
Bweno, 7ik'ocholaj 7i7ayan sne, 7i7ayan stzatzal,
7ipasik ta max.
Bweno, 7ilaj 7o yech ti balamil vo7nee.
7Entonse, 7ital 7otro j-k'ex krixchano, ja7 xa li
vo7otik 7une, 7a ti konchaveetike teyik ta 7olon,
pero ta la sk'oponik ta j-mek li kajvaltike, 7itavan xa