no podía, porque luego desaparecía y tornaba a aparecer en otra parte, luego allí junto, y si otra vez probaba a tomarla escabullíase, y todas las veces que probaba se quedaba burlado y ansí dexaba de porfiar.
\nOtra manera de fantasma aparecía de noche, y era como una calaverna de muerto. Aparecía de noche, de repente, a alguno o a algunos. Luego le saltaba sobre la pantorrilla o detrás dél iba haciendo un ruido como calaverna que iba saltando. El que oía este ruido echaba luego a huir de miedo. Y si por ventura se paraba aquél tras quien iba
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\nAnother type of ghost would appear at night, and this one was like the skull of a dead person. It would appear suddenly at night to one or more people. Then it would leap against someone’s calf or chase after him, making a noise that sounded like a bouncing skull. Anyone who heard this noise would immediately flee in terror. And if by chance the one who was being followed
\n","citation_key":"citation_garagarza","citation":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]}}],"nahuatl_col":[{"id":"9cc3f77c-2d60-4106-90aa-ecba2802b69a","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"transcription","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl transcription"],"es":["transcripción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["Nahuatl"],"es":["Náhuatl"]},"language_code":"nci","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"anoço itla ipan ie muchioaz: auh yn acanoço tlei, çan conmamauhtia: \n\nauh injc ittoia, iuhqujn civapiltontli, çan vel tepiton, civapiltepiton: amo achi quauhtic: çan cacapanton, chachapaton, tzapaton, cujtlapachton, tzonqueme, tzotzonqueme, tzotzoquenpile: vel icujtlacaxiuhian vetzi, in jtzon, in jtzonquen: auh injc nenemj çan tlalli ixco onotiuh, pepeiocatiuh, \n\namo vel cana in qujmottitia: intla ie qujtoca çan ixpan ompolivi, çan jc qujqueloa: iene cecnj, in valmonextia: vmpa qujtoca in canaznequj ompoliuhtiuh: çan iuh commauhcacaoa, conciauhcaoa, ommonenencoa. \n\nÇan ie no iuhquj in tzontecomatl, no moteittitia in iooaltica: in aqujn qujmottitia, çan jc qujmachitia, amo inemachpan in jcotzco choloa: anoce icampa, concaquj chachalcativitz, in qujualtoca: ic ixpampa iehoa, icampa chachalcatiuh in qujtoca.","html":"anoço itla ipan ie muchioaz: auh yn acanoço tlei, çan conmamauhtia:
\nauh injc ittoia, iuhqujn civapiltontli, çan vel tepiton, civapiltepiton: amo achi quauhtic: çan cacapanton, chachapaton, tzapaton, cujtlapachton, tzonqueme, tzotzonqueme, tzotzoquenpile: vel icujtlacaxiuhian vetzi, in jtzon, in jtzonquen: auh injc nenemj çan tlalli ixco onotiuh, pepeiocatiuh,
\namo vel cana in qujmottitia: intla ie qujtoca çan ixpan ompolivi, çan jc qujqueloa: iene cecnj, in valmonextia: vmpa qujtoca in canaznequj ompoliuhtiuh: çan iuh commauhcacaoa, conciauhcaoa, ommonenencoa.
\nÇan ie no iuhquj in tzontecomatl, no moteittitia in iooaltica: in aqujn qujmottitia, çan jc qujmachitia, amo inemachpan in jcotzco choloa: anoce icampa, concaquj chachalcativitz, in qujualtoca: ic ixpampa iehoa, icampa chachalcatiuh in qujtoca.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"68dde306-7ad7-48a6-ad5f-680b43aca0de","choice":{"en":["Nahuatl-to-English by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl-al-inglés por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["nahuatl translation"],"es":["traducción al náhuatl"]},"column":"nahuatl","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982)","markdown":"or something would now befall him. But if he did not so do, it only terrified him.\n\nAnd thus did it look—like a little girl, indeed, quite small; a very little girl, not a bit tall—only small like a sandal, a little cooking pot; a squat dwarf, pressed down like dung. She had hair, much hair, [flowing] like a garment, a mantle of hair, hanging. Clear to her hips did her hair fall—her mantle of hair. And as she walked, she only went creeping on the surface of the ground, waddling.[^2]\n\nHe to whom she appeared could not catch her. If, now, he pursued her, she only disappeared from before him; thus she only mocked him. Further off, apart, she appeared. He pursued her there, he who tried to catch her; she vanished away. So he only let her alone, in terror; she tired him out; he was defrauded.\n\nJust so, the severed head also appeared to the people at night. To him to whom it appeared, it often made known [its presence] by suddenly springing at the calf of his leg. Or else he heard it behind him, coming rattling[^3] as it took after him. So he fled from its presence; back of him it went rattling at him as it pursued him. \n\n\n\n\n[^2]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”vna muger pequeña enana … que tenja los cabellos largos*:* hasta la cinta, y su andar, era como vna anadeando.”*\n\n\n[^3]: Cf. *ibid*. In Molina, *op. cit*., however, *chachalca* is to scold. On *chachalaca*, see Horacio Carochi: *Arte de la lengua mexicana* (México: Imprenta del Museo Nacional, 1892), p. 476.","html":"or something would now befall him. But if he did not so do, it only terrified him.
\nAnd thus did it look—like a little girl, indeed, quite small; a very little girl, not a bit tall—only small like a sandal, a little cooking pot; a squat dwarf, pressed down like dung. She had hair, much hair, [flowing] like a garment, a mantle of hair, hanging. Clear to her hips did her hair fall—her mantle of hair. And as she walked, she only went creeping on the surface of the ground, waddling.1
\nHe to whom she appeared could not catch her. If, now, he pursued her, she only disappeared from before him; thus she only mocked him. Further off, apart, she appeared. He pursued her there, he who tried to catch her; she vanished away. So he only let her alone, in terror; she tired him out; he was defrauded.
\nJust so, the severed head also appeared to the people at night. To him to whom it appeared, it often made known [its presence] by suddenly springing at the calf of his leg. Or else he heard it behind him, coming rattling2 as it took after him. So he fled from its presence; back of him it went rattling at him as it pursued him.
\nCorresponding Spanish text: ”vna muger pequeña enana … que tenja los cabellos largos:* hasta la cinta, y su andar, era como vna anadeando.”*↩
Cf. ibid. In Molina, op. cit., however, chachalca is to scold. On chachalaca, see Horacio Carochi: Arte de la lengua mexicana (México: Imprenta del Museo Nacional, 1892), p. 476.↩