papeles hechos como pelotas y llenos de pícietl mulido, y tíranle con ellos; o llevan unos jarrillos llenos desta misma yerba, y tíranla con ellos; y como se quiebra el jarrillo y se derrama el pícietl, con el pulvo del pícietl se enborracha y se adormece. Y desque está adormecida, con un palo o varal largo métenla en la boca una manta en que va revuelta aquella yerba pícietl mulido, y entonce pierde todo el sentido, y ansí la matan. Y llégase esta culebra a los manantiales de las aguas, y allí come y traga cuantos peces y animales hay.
\nHay otra culebra que se llama palancacóatl. Es tan larga como una braza, y tan gruesa como un brazo. Es parda escura. Y llámase palancacóatl porque hiede a carne pudrida, y parece que tiene llagas pudridas por todo el cuerpo. Y andan con ella muchas
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\nThere is another snake that is called palancacoatl. It is as long as a fathom and as thick as a [person’s] arm. It is dark brownish. And it is called palancacoatl because it stinks of rotten flesh and looks as if it has festering sores all over its body. And many flies go
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\nauh injc amo tepan patlanjz, injc amo tlaixpoloz: amatica qujqujmjloa in picietl, ic qujmomotla: anoço contotõco qujtema, ic cõmotla in cõtontli, injc njmã tlapantivetzi in contontli. auh no cemmantivetzi in picietl, ic çotlaoatimoteca: njman quavitl iquac qujtlalia, amatl, tzotzomatli vel picieio, icamac caquja, ic çan njman aoc tle qujchioa: vncan conana qujmjctia.\nAuh aoztoc: texcalco, axoxovilco in onoc: vncan quj̄quatoc, quj̄palotoc, qujntotolotoc, qujnpetztolotoc in iolcatzitzinti.
\nçan ipan qualli, achi ixqujch in tecutlacoçauhquj pochectic. Auh inic mjtoa palancacooatl hiiac: auh injc neci, in jnacaio, vel iuhqujnma papalanj, iuhqujnma xoxolocatoc, vncan onoc çaiolooatoc: auh in
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\nBut in order that it will not fly at one, in order that it will not destroy, he wraps up fine tobacco in paper; he throws it at [the serpent]. Or else he fills small jars [with fine tobacco] to throw the small jars at it so that the small jars suddenly burst, and the fine tobacco suddenly scatters. Thus [the serpent] stretches out enfeebled. Then he puts on the end of a stick a paper, a rag, well provided with fine tobacco; he inserts it in its mouth, so that it then does nothing more. He there captures it; he kills it.
\nAnd it lies in water caverns, in crags, in canyons. There it lies eating, enjoying, swallowing, swallowing, whole the small animals.
\nIt is of average size, about like the tecutlacoçauhqui. It is smoky. And it is called palancacoatl because it stinks, and its body looks as if it were full of sores, as if it lay mouldering. On it lie flies swarming. And
\nPalancacoatl: Bothrops atrox (ibid., p. 388).↩