Devil
Diablo
Object Details
| Subject Language | Ch'ol |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119634 |
| Title [Indigenous] | Xiba |
| Language of Indigenous Title | ctu |
| Title | Devil |
| Language Community | Tumbalá |
| Country(ies) | Mexico |
| Place Created | San Miguel, Salto De Agua, Chiapas |
| Date Created | 2016-06 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | A story about farmers returning from their fields, who run late and decide to rest in a house but find demons in the form of different animals. Demons eat a man who has just died. The men escape but are pursued. A corn spirit saves the men. This story appears as an interlinearized text translated into English in Little's Ph.D. dissertation (Little 2020:188-199). |
| Genres | Narrative |
| Source Note | Xiba |
| References | Little, Carol Rose. 2020. Mutual dependencies of nominal and clausal syntax in Ch'ol. Ph.D. dissertation: Cornell University. |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Little, Carol Rose (Researcher, Recorder) Arcos López, Evelina (Speaker) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
