golpeando, también se paraba la calaverna. Y si este tal se esforzaba a querer tomar la calaverna, ya que le iba a tomar, burlábale dando un salto a otra parte. Y si allí la iba a tomar, otra vez hacía lo mismo, hasta tanto que ya el que iba tras ella se cansaba, y de cansado y de miedo la dexaba y huía para su casa.
\nOtra manera de fantasma aparecía de noche, que era como un defuncto que estaba amortajado, y estaba quexando y gemiendo. A los que aparecía esta fantasma, si eran valientes y esforzados, arremetían para asir della, y lo que tomaban era un césped o terrón. Todas estas ilusiones atribuían a Tezcatlipuca.
\nTambién tenían por mal agüero a las voces del pito cuando le oían vocear en las montañas, que luego concebían sospecha que les había de venir algún mal.
\n","citation_key":"citation_lopez_spanish_transcription","citation":{"en":["Spanish by López Austin & García Quintana 2000"],"es":["Español por López Austin & García Quintana 2000"]}},{"id":"7444150f-b8b8-4c6f-9cbd-0ef72555d4a3","choice":{"en":["Spanish-to-English by García Garagarza 2023"],"es":["Español-al-inglés por García Garagarza 2023"]},"type":"translation","type_label":{"en":["spanish translation"],"es":["traducción al español"]},"column":"spanish","language":{"en":["English"],"es":["Inglés"]},"language_code":"eng","subtitle":"(García Garagarza 2023)","markdown":"by the clattering skull happened to stop, the skull would also stop. And if this person made an effort to grab the skull, just as he was about to grab it, [the skull] would outwit him by jumping to another spot. And if he went there to grab it, [the skull] would do the same again, over and over until the one who was chasing after it would get tired and leave it alone, out of fatigue and fear, and run back home.\n\nAnother type of ghost would appear at night, which was like a shrouded corpse that went about complaining and moaning. If the ones to whom this ghost appeared happened to be brave and strong, they would charge ahead to grab it, only to end up grasping a clump of grass or dirt. They attributed all these illusions to Tezcatlipoca.\n\nThey also took the calls of the linnet[^11] as a bad omen when they would hear it calling in the mountains, for they would then harbor the suspicion that something bad would happen to them. \n\n\n[^11]: “Linnet”: _el pito_; literally, “the whistle,” which is a generic name for any shrill bird. The name of this bird in Nahuatl is _chiquimolli_.","html":"by the clattering skull happened to stop, the skull would also stop. And if this person made an effort to grab the skull, just as he was about to grab it, [the skull] would outwit him by jumping to another spot. And if he went there to grab it, [the skull] would do the same again, over and over until the one who was chasing after it would get tired and leave it alone, out of fatigue and fear, and run back home.
\nAnother type of ghost would appear at night, which was like a shrouded corpse that went about complaining and moaning. If the ones to whom this ghost appeared happened to be brave and strong, they would charge ahead to grab it, only to end up grasping a clump of grass or dirt. They attributed all these illusions to Tezcatlipoca.
\nThey also took the calls of the linnet1 as a bad omen when they would hear it calling in the mountains, for they would then harbor the suspicion that something bad would happen to them.
\n“Linnet”: el pito; literally, “the whistle,” which is a generic name for any shrill bird. The name of this bird in Nahuatl is chiquimolli.↩
Auh intla moquetza, motilquetza, no motlalia chachalcatinemj: auh intla omoiollochichili, injc qujcujtiuetziz çan jc qujqueloa, ueca ieoa in choloa, amo uel cana: çan no iuh conmauhcacaoa: ixpampa ieoa: ixqujch qujtoctia, injc momauhcatlaloa ichan.
\nÇan ie no iuhquj in mjcquj, no moteittitiaia: yilpitica, quaquailpitica, quiqujnacatica: in cana moteittitiaia; tequjqujnatza: çan iehoan in jollochicavaque, vel iujc motlapaloa in qujcujtiuetzi: itech mopiloa. Auh injc çan inca mocacaiaoa, aço tlachcujtl, anoço tlaquavac tetl in jmmac mocauhtiqujça: injc mocueptiuetzi: iuh mjtoa, ca çan muchi ieh, inaoal in tezcatlipuca injc teca mocacaiaoaia etc.
\nIn chiqujmoli, ca centetl tototl, iuhqujn quauhchochopitli: auh veca quauhtla in jchan. Auh in iq̄c tepan tzatzia, netetzaujloia: quj[tovaia,]
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"ad4efdd1-4a23-4d25-8e60-66f77204a0e6","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":"And if he stood, if he stopped in alarm, it also sat, and remained rattling. And if he gathered courage to seize it quickly, it only mocked him for doing so. Far did it rise when it jumped; he could not catch it. Hence, in the same manner, he let it alone in his fear; from its presence he fled, exerting all force in order to run terrified to his home.\n\nJust so the dead also appeared to people. They were in [funeral] wrappings, with head wrappings, and were groaning. If, somewhere, one appeared before one, it moaned at him. Only the valiant could venture toward it in order to seize it and cling to it. But then it only made sport of them: perhaps a clump of grass or a hard clod remained in their hands. Thus they quickly transformed themselves. So it was said that all this was only a disguise of Tezcatlipoca by which he mocked men. Etc.\n\n##### *The omen of the linnet.[^4]*\n\nThe linnet is a bird like a woodpecker,[^5] and far into the forest is its home. And when it cried out at someone, it was taken as an omen.[^6] \n\n\n\n\n[^4]: Molina, *op. cit*.: *sirguerito paxaro;* Santamaría, *op. cit*., Vol. I, p. 514 (*chiquimole*): *jilguerillo—especie de jilguero*. Sahagún (Garibay ed.), Vol. IV, p. 334: *”Ave canora, sumamente parlera*… . Dryobates scalaris bairdi.”\n\n\n[^5]: *Quauhchochopitli*: Nardo Antonio Reccho, in *Rervm Medicarvm Novae Hispaniae Thesavrvs sev Plantarvm Animalivm Mineralivm Mexicanorvm Historia ex Francisci Hernandez* (Rome: Vitalis Mascardi, 1651), p. 33, appendix, heads Chap. XCIV, *”De Quauhchochopitli, seu Auicula ligna excauante,”* and writes: *”Avicula est, Mexicanae Coturnicis formà, & magnitudine, plumis nigris, aut pullis, lineis albis, transuersim discurrentibus distinctis; ventre, pectoréque, minij colore*:* lingua picorum more, quorum est species prolixa*:* viuit in frigidis, & arbores rostro saepiusculè petitas excauat.”*\n\n\n[^6]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”las bozes del pito* [magpie]: *quando le oyan bozear en las montañas.”*","html":"And if he stood, if he stopped in alarm, it also sat, and remained rattling. And if he gathered courage to seize it quickly, it only mocked him for doing so. Far did it rise when it jumped; he could not catch it. Hence, in the same manner, he let it alone in his fear; from its presence he fled, exerting all force in order to run terrified to his home.
\nJust so the dead also appeared to people. They were in [funeral] wrappings, with head wrappings, and were groaning. If, somewhere, one appeared before one, it moaned at him. Only the valiant could venture toward it in order to seize it and cling to it. But then it only made sport of them: perhaps a clump of grass or a hard clod remained in their hands. Thus they quickly transformed themselves. So it was said that all this was only a disguise of Tezcatlipoca by which he mocked men. Etc.
\nThe linnet is a bird like a woodpecker,2 and far into the forest is its home. And when it cried out at someone, it was taken as an omen.3
\nMolina, op. cit.: sirguerito paxaro; Santamaría, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 514 (chiquimole): jilguerillo—especie de jilguero. Sahagún (Garibay ed.), Vol. IV, p. 334: ”Ave canora, sumamente parlera… . Dryobates scalaris bairdi.”↩
Quauhchochopitli: Nardo Antonio Reccho, in Rervm Medicarvm Novae Hispaniae Thesavrvs sev Plantarvm Animalivm Mineralivm Mexicanorvm Historia ex Francisci Hernandez (Rome: Vitalis Mascardi, 1651), p. 33, appendix, heads Chap. XCIV, ”De Quauhchochopitli, seu Auicula ligna excauante,” and writes: ”Avicula est, Mexicanae Coturnicis formà, & magnitudine, plumis nigris, aut pullis, lineis albis, transuersim discurrentibus distinctis; ventre, pectoréque, minij colore:* lingua picorum more, quorum est species prolixa: viuit in frigidis, & arbores rostro saepiusculè petitas excauat.”*↩
Corresponding Spanish text: ”las bozes del pito [magpie]: quando le oyan bozear en las montañas.”↩