mucho tiempo que no pudía cazar ninguna persona, salíase a la orilla del agua y comenzaba llorar como niño. Y el que oíya aquel lloro iba pensando que era algún niño. Y como llegaba cerca del agua, asíale con la mano de la cola y llevábale debaxo del agua, y allá le mataba en su cueva. Decían también que si alguno vía a este animalejo y no se atemorizaba de verle, ni el animalejo le acometía, que era señal que había de morir presto.\nDicen que una vieja que iba por agua cazó uno destos animalejos y lo metió en el cántaro, y le atapó con el huipil, y lo llevó a mostrar a los señores del pueblo. Y desque lo vieron, dixeron a la vieja
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\nThey say that an older woman who was going to fetch water caught one of these little animals, put it in her pitcher, covered it with her huipil,1 and took it to show the town’s lords. And as soon as they saw it, they told the older woman
\nhuipil: Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word huipilli.↩
[jtetla]caanaliz in avitzotl: in omoxiuhtlati aiac cana, in aiac qujlaquja timaceoalti, in caco: iuhqujn conetontli choca. Auh in aqujn qujcaquj: in momati aço piltzintli in choca, aço conetzintli: aço netlatlaxililli: ic tlaocoia, vmpa iauh qujttaz: ic vmpa imac onvetzi in avitzotl, vmpa qujlaquja.
\nIn aqujn çan qujtta: in amo tle ipan qujchioa, in amo quelaquja; qujmotetzavia, qujl mjqujz. Amo qujtetzavia, in iuhca nenonotzalli: çan ipãpa in cenca momauhtia, yoã achi qujpitza: ic mjquj.
\nCa ce tlacatl ilamaton: qujcujtivetz, ivipil ic qujtlapacho: njman apilolco cõtlaz, atl contecac: imjxpan qujvicac in tlatoque, vel qujttaque: ca nel noço qujteumatia in iolcapil, qujlmach
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\nHe who only saw it, who did nothing to it, the one [the auitzotl] did not drown, took it as an omen of evil; it was said he would die. It did not throw him into terror as in the fable; it was only that he was sore afraid, and it blew a little upon him, that he died.
\nA little old woman seized one; she covered it with her shift. Then she cast it into a water jar; she covered it with water. She carried it before the lords; they looked at it well. Indeed they took the little animal to be a god: it was said
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