en breve o les acontecía algún desastre.
\nY si estas fantasmas aparecían a algún hombre valiente y osado, como son soldados viejos, luego se apercibía y disponía, porque siempre andaban con sobresalto de noche, entendiendo que habían de topar alguna cosa y aun las andaban a buscar por todos los caminos y calles, deseando de ver alguna cosa para alcanzar della alguna ventura o alguna buena fortuna, o algunas espinas de maguey, que son señal desto; y si acaso le aparecía alguna destas fantasmas que andaba a buscar, luego arremetía y se asía con ella fuertemente, y decíala: "¿Quién eres tú? Háblame. Mira que no dexas de hablar, que ya te tengo asida, y no te tengo de dexar." Esto repetía muchas veces, andando el uno con el otro a la zacapella. Y después de haber mucho peleando, ya cerca de la mañana, hablaba la fantasma y decía: "Déxame, que me fatigas. Dime lo que quieres, y dártelo he." Luego respondía el soldado y decía: "¿Qué me has de dar?" Respondía la fantasma: "Cataquí una espina." Respondía el soldado: "No la quiero. ¿Para qué es una espina sola? No vale nada." Y aunque le daba dos o tres o cuatro espinas no la quería soltar, hasta que le diese tantas cuantas él quería. Y cuando ya le daba
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\nAuh in aqujn, vel iollotlapaliuj: in moteneoa: iaotlaueliloc, ic momanja, ic muchichioa, ic mocencaoa: njman iuh qujmolhuja, in iooaltica, naoaltetemoz, novijan nenemj: qujtotocatinemj, in jzquj vchpantli, iooalnenemj, qujtetemotinemj, in aço cana itla qujmottitiz: injc qujtlanjliz itenemac, iteicneliliz vitztli.
\nAuh intla ie oqujmottiti in juhquj y, qujtetemoa: qujcujtiuetzi, qujteteuhtzitzquja, itech mopiloa: aocmo qujcaoa qujtlatoltia, qujluja: ac tehoatl jn nocne? xinechnotza, amommaca titlatoz: ca onjmjtzan, amo njmjtzcaoaz: vecauhtica qujnemjtia, in qujtlatoltia:
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\nBut he who was sturdy of heart, one who was renowned as intrepid in war, then prepared, arrayed, and bedight himself. Then he thus took counsel with himself: at night he would hunt the wizard who walks everywhere. He went in pursuit of him—on all the wide ways where he dwelt at night. He went seeking it, that perchance somewhere it would appear to him; that he might demand from it his reward, his gift—thorns.
\nAnd if now one appeared before him like this one, he sought it out and seized it; he grasped it firmly in his hands, and clung to it. Not now did he let it go; he tortured it. He said to it: “Who art thou, O rogue? Speak to me! Fail not to speak! For I have taken thee, and I shall not let thee go.” For a long time he persisted in torturing it.
\nWhen it spoke to and answered him, if now he vexed it, when, perhaps, it was about to dawn and morning to break, it said to him: “Loose me now! Thou harmest me! Whatsoever thy heart wisheth, I shall give thee. What shall
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