Otra abusión tenían: decían que cuando las gallinas estaban echadas sobre los huevos, si alguno iba hacia ellas calzado con cotaras, no sacarían pollos. Y si los sacasen, serían enfermos y luego se murirían. Y para remedio desto ponían cabe el nido de las gallinas unas cotaras viejas.
\nOtra abusión: decían que cuando nacían los pollos, si algún amancebado entraba en la casa donde estaban, luego los pollos se caían muertos, las patas arriba. Y esto llaman tlazolmiqui. Y si alguno de la casa estaba amancebado, o la mujer o el varón, lo mesmo acontecía a los pollos. Y en esto conocían que había algún amancebado en alguna casa.
\nOtra abusión tenían: decían que cuando se texía alguna tela, ora fuese para manta, ora para naoas, ora para huipil, o si la tela se afloxaba de una parte más que de otra, decían que aquél para quien era era [sic, repetido] persona de mala vida, y que se parecía en que la tela se paraba bizcornada.
\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":"07cf6910-fd71-4d4e-b030-09454fae4683","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":"#### Chapter twenty-three: On [turkey] hens[^21]\n\nThey had another superstition: they said that when [turkey] hens were sitting on their eggs, if someone approached them wearing sandals, no chicks would hatch. And if any managed to hatch, they would be sickly and soon die. And to remedy this, they would place some old sandals near the hens’ nests.\n\n#### Chapter twenty-four: On [turkey] chicks\n\nAnother superstition: they said that when the [turkey] chicks hatched, if any adulterous person entered the house where they were, the chicks would soon fall dead, belly-up. They call this _tlazolmiqui_. And if anyone in the household was committing adultery, either man or woman, the same thing would happen to the chicks. And by this, they would know that there was some adulterous person in a house.\n\n#### Chapter twenty-five: On the seams of capes\n\nThey had another superstition: they said that when a piece of cloth was being woven, whether for a cape, a skirt,[^22] or a _huipil_, if the cloth came out more loose on one side than on the other, they said that the person for whom it had been made lived a corrupt life and that this was evident in that the cloth had a crooked seam standing up.[^23]\n\n\n[^21]: The Spaniards introduced the domestic chicken of the species _Gallus gallus_ to the Americas, whose inhabitants otherwise had domesticated the endemic turkey bird _Meleagris gallopavo_. The superstitions described here apply otherwise to both species of domestic fowl.\n\n[^22]: “Skirt”: _naguas_.\n\n[^23]: “In that . . . up”: _y que se parecía en que la tela se paraba bizcornada_.","html":"They had another superstition: they said that when [turkey] hens were sitting on their eggs, if someone approached them wearing sandals, no chicks would hatch. And if any managed to hatch, they would be sickly and soon die. And to remedy this, they would place some old sandals near the hens’ nests.
\nAnother superstition: they said that when the [turkey] chicks hatched, if any adulterous person entered the house where they were, the chicks would soon fall dead, belly-up. They call this tlazolmiqui. And if anyone in the household was committing adultery, either man or woman, the same thing would happen to the chicks. And by this, they would know that there was some adulterous person in a house.
\nThey had another superstition: they said that when a piece of cloth was being woven, whether for a cape, a skirt,2 or a huipil, if the cloth came out more loose on one side than on the other, they said that the person for whom it had been made lived a corrupt life and that this was evident in that the cloth had a crooked seam standing up.3
\nThe Spaniards introduced the domestic chicken of the species Gallus gallus to the Americas, whose inhabitants otherwise had domesticated the endemic turkey bird Meleagris gallopavo. The superstitions described here apply otherwise to both species of domestic fowl.↩
“Skirt”: naguas.↩
“In that . . . up”: y que se parecía en que la tela se paraba bizcornada.↩
In totolme: in jquac tlapachoa, amo vel inpan calaquj in mocactia: oc cenca yquac in ie tlapanjzque totolti, qujlmach ic mocototztlalia: amo vel tlapanjzque, cequjntin ic mjquj: auh in cequjntin yn jquac tlacati qujl çan cocototzpipil, in vncan cate in cacalloc. Auh qujl injc amo iuh muchioazque yn, cacçolli intlan qujtema in tlapachoa.
\nAuh in jquac otlacatque in totolconentoton: avel inpan calaquj in momecatianj, in aço cioatl, in anoço toqujchtin, in anoço namjqueque: in jquac in aço oqujtlaxin inamjc, intla inpan ocalac, qujtoa: qujntlaçolmjctia.
\nAuh injc neci çan muchintin aaquetztiuj injc mjquj totolpipil, ic qujtoa: ca tlaçolmjquj: aço aca inpan ocalaqujco, anoço oqujmjttac, anoço aca vel chane in oqujntlaçolmjcti: ic qujmatia, in çan muchin aaquetztivi totolme, injc mjquj.
\nQujl no iuh inpan muchioa in namjqueque: in aço cana qujtlaxima inamjc, in aço cioatl, anoço toqujchtin: injc qujmati, çan qujpiqui in aaquetztivetzi, anoce cana motlavitequj.
\nIn jcpatl, in aço tilmatli, anoço vipilli, anoço cueitl: in jquac qujqujti in chicopatilivi, in chicoviaqujxtiuh, in tennecujliuhtiuh, qujtoaia: qujlmach amo tlacaiollo yn tilmaoa, yn vipilli: çan cueciuhquj, çan tlatlaveliloc: amo tlacaiollo.
\n","citation_key":"citation_anderson_nahuatl_transcription","citation":{"en":["Nahuatl by Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"],"es":["Náhuatl por Anderson & Dibble 1953–1982"]}},{"id":"26a6cee7-6509-40cd-a3ca-7d3660c827b4","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":"#### Twenty-third Chapter, which telleth of turkey hens.\n\nTurkey hens: when they were brooding, one who wore sandals might not go in among them. Especially when the chicks were about to break [the shells], it was said that [the hens] sat paralyzed. [The chicks] could not break [the shells, and] some would die. But some, when they hatched, it was thought, would only be paralyzed, those which were there in the shells. And it was said that in order that this might not happen, they placed old sandals among them when [the hens] brooded.\n\n#### Twenty-fourth Chapter, which telleth of turkey chicks.[^26]\n\nAnd when turkey chicks hatched, one might not enter among them who had a paramour, whether woman or man, or those who were married. When perchance the spouse [of one of them] had committed adultery, if he were to go in among [the chicks], they said: “He killeth them through filth.”\n\nAnd when it appeared that indeed all the chicks fell upon their backs so that they died,[^27] upon this they said: “They died of filth; perchance someone came to go in among them; or looked upon them; or indeed it was the householder who slew them by filth.” Because of this, they believed, indeed all the turkeys had fallen upon their backs so that they died.\n\nIt was said that also the same befell those who were married. If perchance somewhere one’s spouse, whether woman or man, fell into adultery, they then believed that those which had fallen upon their backs or stumbled over, indeed accused him.\n\n#### Twenty-fifth Chapter, which telleth of her who wove with yarn.\n\nWhen [a woman] wove with yarn perhaps a mantle, or a shift, or a skirt, which came out awry, unevenly disposed, with crooked edges, they said and it was thought that the weaver of the mantle or shift was not generous. Just like a crooked seam, perverse [would she be]; not generous.[^28]\n\n\n\n\n[^26]: *Totolconentoton*: read *totolconetoton*.\n\n\n[^27]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”los pollos se cayan muertos, las patas arriba*:* y esto, llaman tlaçolmjqui.”*\n\n\n[^28]: Corresponding Spanish text: *”se parecia, en que la tela, se paraua bizcornada.” Cuecueço*, in Siméon, *op. cit*., is to make a false seam.","html":"Turkey hens: when they were brooding, one who wore sandals might not go in among them. Especially when the chicks were about to break [the shells], it was said that [the hens] sat paralyzed. [The chicks] could not break [the shells, and] some would die. But some, when they hatched, it was thought, would only be paralyzed, those which were there in the shells. And it was said that in order that this might not happen, they placed old sandals among them when [the hens] brooded.
\nAnd when turkey chicks hatched, one might not enter among them who had a paramour, whether woman or man, or those who were married. When perchance the spouse [of one of them] had committed adultery, if he were to go in among [the chicks], they said: “He killeth them through filth.”
\nAnd when it appeared that indeed all the chicks fell upon their backs so that they died,2 upon this they said: “They died of filth; perchance someone came to go in among them; or looked upon them; or indeed it was the householder who slew them by filth.” Because of this, they believed, indeed all the turkeys had fallen upon their backs so that they died.
\nIt was said that also the same befell those who were married. If perchance somewhere one’s spouse, whether woman or man, fell into adultery, they then believed that those which had fallen upon their backs or stumbled over, indeed accused him.
\nWhen [a woman] wove with yarn perhaps a mantle, or a shift, or a skirt, which came out awry, unevenly disposed, with crooked edges, they said and it was thought that the weaver of the mantle or shift was not generous. Just like a crooked seam, perverse [would she be]; not generous.3
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