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84 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23
"I mean it."
"So, you bastard, just stop eating here, then! You
just eat and eat. Who knows what will happen to
you," he said. The boss had seen now, had heard
now that [Johnny Fourteen] had won over and over.
"Go on then, go far, far away! If you want whatever
you want, go jump into a war or something! Today
there is no food for you," he was told. [Johnny] went
on. He disappeared. That's how the story ends.
As the word lolbol means both "banana" and "fruit," Johnny
could be guarding an undisclosed variety of fruit tree.
Johnny Fourteen is known also from Puerto Rico (Mason and
Espinosa, 1926:263-264), Jalisco (Wheeler, 1943;T98) and the
Chontal of Oaxaca (Belmar, 1900:50-58). He appears in the
southwest under the alias of Juan Sin Miedo (A.M. Espinosa,
"Yech kal."
"7Entonse, kavron, batz'i 7altik nox 117 chave7e
che7e, yech no 7ox chave7 ta j-mek jna7tik k'usi
chk'ot 7apas," xi la 7un. 7Ilbil xa ya7yoj xa ti 7ajvalil
7une, ti kuch xa ta j-mek yu7un 7une. "Batan che7e,
batan ta nom ta j-mek, ti mi xak'an k'usi chak'ane ba
ba tik' aba ta 7ak'-k'ok' mi k'usi, lavie ch'abal
Iave7el," x7utat la. 7Ibat la, ch'aye ech'el 7un, ja7
yech 7ilaj 7o k'op chak taj 7un.
1911, T12) and in Guadalajara as Juan Hue von (Robe, 1970,
T74). His exploits are similar to those in European tales (A-T
346, A-T 525), in which the protagonist must overcome his fear
as he is confronted by skeletons, ghosts, etc. See also T10, T170,
and notes.
What an Old Woman Will Do to You If You Do It to Her
T139
Once, the people said, the older people, that we
couldn't desire women. We couldn't fuck an older
woman when we were still young. We would get
sick from it. Our animal would leave, because that's
what the people say. Even now they say that we
have animals. If we fuck an older woman our animal
will come out. If she is just the same age, like our
brothers and sisters, then of course you can.
Now if we grab an older woman our animals will
leave. Our potency will end. Our hair will fall out.
We can't do anything at all. We're left completely
useless.
That's the way it was, of course, for the people
long ago. Today it probably isn't that way anymore.
But the people long ago probably received less
strength. There were those who fucked older women.
One fucked an older woman, it seems. His animal
left. His potency was lost. The hair fell from his
head.
They didn't know what medicine [to use]. They
didn't know how to treat themselves for it. They
didn't know about doctors. They didn't know about
better medicine. They just found it by themselves.
They gave it. They gave it to each other, the people
of long ago.
That boy got sick. He told his older relatives, it
seems. "Well, see here, son. Treat yourself because
you are dying," they said.
"What kind of medicine is it? What do you think
can make me well? Because I'm dying. I have no
strength. I did this stupid thing," he said.
"Ah, no, [don't worry] son, this is what should be
done," they said. He carried the planks of his old
bed. He circled three times around the outside of the
Bweno, 7a ti vo7nee, chalik ti krixchanoetike, ti
mas mole tike, mu la xu7 jk'upintik 7antz, mu la xu7
7a li jkobtik me7el lavi bik'itotike, ta la xi7ipajotik
7o, ta la xlok' 7o jchontik porke ja7 yech chalik i
krixchanoetike, k'al tana yech chalik ti 7oy
jchontike, 7a ti jkobtik la jun me7ele, ta la xlok'
jchontik, 7a ti mi ja7 no la yech k'u cha7al jchi7iltik
ta ch'iele xu7 la 7un bi 7a!
7Ora, ti mi jtzaktik me7ele, ta la xlok' jchontik ta
la xlaj 7o jpwersatik ta la xtul 7o jjoltik, mi ja7uk xa
la xu7 k'usi jpastik batz'i yech la ta j-mek
chikomotik.
Bweno, 7o la yech ti vo7ne a7a, 7a ti vo7ne
krixchanoetike, lavie mu xa nan yechuk pero mas to
7ox nan yochol pwersa yich'oj ti krixchanoetik
vo7nee, 7o la tzkobik me7el 7iskob ya7el ti me7el ti
jun 7une, 7ilok' la xchon 7ilaj la spwersa 7itul la
stzatzal sjol.
Bweno, mu sna7ik k'usi ti pox 7une, mu sna7ik
k'usi tzpoxta 7o sbaik 7un, mu sna7 k'usi loktor, mu
sna7 k'usi mas lek pox, batz'i ja7 nox ta ssa7ik stukik
ta xak'ik, te nox ta xak'be sbaik ti vo7ne krixchano
7une.
Bweno, 7i7ipaj la taj jun krem 7une, 7iyal la ti
moletik xchi7iltak ya7el 7une. "Bweno, k'el avil,
kere, poxta aba yu7n xa me chacham," xi la.
"K'usi li spoxil 7une, k'usi xikol 7o xana7, yu7n xa
chicham, batz'i mu xu7, ja7 yech 7ijpas bolil chak
Ii7e," xi la 7un.
"7A mo7oj, kere, ja7 me yech smelol chak H7e," xi
la 7un. 7Iskuch la ti stenel te7al sk'a7-tem, 7isjoyin la
7oxib bwelta ti pana xxokon nae, skuchoj ti steme,