El nahualli propriamente se llama bruxo que de noche espanta a los hombres, y chupa a los niños. El que es curioso deste oficio bien se le entiende cualquier cosa de hechizos, y para usar dellos es agudo y astutu, aprovecha y no daña. El que es maléfico y pestífero deste oficio hace daño a los cuerpos con los dichos hechizos, y saca de juicio y aoja. Es embaidor o encantador.
\nEl astrólo[go] judiciario o nigromántico tiene cuenta
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\nThe judiciary astrologer or necromancer keeps track of [the counting of]
\nThat is, sucks their blood and strength.↩
[nono]tzale: nonotzqui, pixe, suchioa naoalli, tlapouhqui, tlapoani mecatlapouhqui, tepamictia, tlaouitilia, tepixuia, tesuchiuia
\nin naoalli tlamatini, nonotzale, piale, hacemelle ixtilli, imacaxtli, haquequelli, axictli, aixcoeoaliztli
\nIn qualli naoalli: tlapiani, tlaiollotl, tlapixqui: itzqui, itztica, tlapia, tlapaleuia, aiac quen quichioa.
\nIn tlaueliloc naoalli: tlachioale, tetlachiuiani suchioa, teiolmalacacho, teixcuepa, tetlanonochilia, texoxa, tetlachiuia tetlacatecolouia, teca mocaiaoa tetlapololtia
\nin
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\nThe sorcerer [is] a wise man, a counselor, a person of trust—serious, respected, revered, dignified, unreviled, not subject to insults.
\nThe good sorcerer [is] a caretaker, a man of discretion, a guardian. Astute, he is keen, careful, helpful; he never harms anyone.
\nThe bad sorcerer [is] a doer [of evil], an enchanter. He bewitches women; he deranges, deludes people; he casts spells over them; he charms them; he enchants them; he causes them to be possessed. He deceives people; he confounds them.
\nThe
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”El naoalli propriamente se llama bruxo, que de noche espanta a los hombres y chupa a los njños.” Cf. also Dibble and Anderson, op. cit., IV, p. 42, n. 5.
\nEduard Seler, Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und Altertumskunde (J. Eric S. Thompson and Francis B. Richardson, tr. and ed.; Cambridge: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1939), II, Pt. 1, pp. 53–4: “The diviner twisted a rope together into a kind of knot and then drew it quickly. If the knot came out easily, then he said the patient would recover, but if he only made the knot tighter, … the patient would die.” See also Garibay, loc cit.↩
Cf. George Foster: “Nagualism in Mexico and Guatemala,” Acta Americana, II, 1–2 (1944), pp. 85sqq.↩
Refer to ibid., passim.↩