Echábase a gatas, porque ni podía correr ni andar. No pensaba otra cosa más de que alguna desgracia le había de venir por razón del mal agüero que había oído. Comenzaba luego a temer que le había de venir enfermedad o muerte o alguna desventura de pobreza y trabajos por razón de aquel mal agüero.
\nTambién cuando oían cantar al búho estos naturales desta Nueva España tomaban mal agüero, ora estuviese sobre su casa, ora estuviese sobre algún árbol cerca. Oyendo aquella manera del canto del búho, luego se atemorizaban y pronosticaban que algún mal les había de venir, o de enfermedad o de muerte, o que se los había aca[bado]
\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":"67b43a56-656b-4a90-82ad-287c153b926e","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":"He would get down on all fours, unable to either run or walk. He could think of nothing else than that some misfortune would happen to him because of the bad omen that he had heard. He would then begin to fear that some illness, death, or some misfortune related to poverty and difficulties would come upon him because of that bad omen.\n\n#### Fourth chapter: On the bad omen that they interpreted regarding the song of the owl, a bird\n\nLikewise, when these natives of this New Spain heard the owl singing, they would take it as a bad omen, whether it happened over their house or on some tree nearby. Upon hearing the peculiar sound of the owl’s song, they would immediately be frightened and predict that something bad would happen to them, either illness or death; or that the lifespan","html":"He would get down on all fours, unable to either run or walk. He could think of nothing else than that some misfortune would happen to him because of the bad omen that he had heard. He would then begin to fear that some illness, death, or some misfortune related to poverty and difficulties would come upon him because of that bad omen.
\nLikewise, when these natives of this New Spain heard the owl singing, they would take it as a bad omen, whether it happened over their house or on some tree nearby. Upon hearing the peculiar sound of the owl’s song, they would immediately be frightened and predict that something bad would happen to them, either illness or death; or that the lifespan
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\nNo yoan netetzaujloia, tlatetzaujaia, tetzammachoia, in teculutl choca: in jquac tla aca ytlapantenco, anoço ixacalticpac, iquauhticpac chocatica: in qujcaquj qujtotica: Tecolo, o, o, tecolo o o, yvin in caqujzti, in choca.
\nQujtoa in jquac in cacoia, qujnextia
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\nLikewise all took it as an omen and an augury, and it was considered a portent, when the horned owl hooted, when perchance on someone’s roof terrace or on his roof top, or up in his tree, it was hooting when they heard it, and it was saying, “Tecolo-o-o! Tecolo-o-o!” 2 In this wise it sounded when it hooted.
\nThey said that when it was heard, it signified
\nTeculutl. According to Seler, op. cit., Vol. I, Pt. 3, p. 14, it is a horned owl or eagle owl. In Vol. IV, p. 48, he refers to it as a large owl “associated with darkness, night, and characters influential at night.” Francisco F. Santamaría, in Diccionario general de americanismos (Méjico: Editorial Pedro Robredo, 1942), Vol. III, p. 147, identifies it with the lechuza (see, however, Chapter 5, n. 1, infra).↩
Garibay, op. cit., p. 309, n. 6, referring to the superstition, ”Cuando el tecolote canta, el indio muere,” translates ”Tecolo-o-o” as ”Perjudica a alguno.” He identifies the bird as Buho virginianus L. (buho de Anáhuac).↩