087. Adúlteros matan a un hombre por causa de su mujer

University of New Mexico | Latin American & Iberian Institute
K’iche’ Maya Oral History Project
No. 087 | 00:10:27 minutes
Adulterers Kill a Man Because of His Wife
There was a woman whose husband was absent a lot from their home. He was a traveling merchant. In
his absence his wife began have affairs with several men. Finally the men decided to kill the woman’s husband so they would have complete access to her. The men got the woman’s husband drunk and killed him.
They cut him into pieces and threw the body parts into the river. People began finding the body parts and
reported their findings to the authorities. The authorities began investigating if there were any missing men
in the village. Finally they discovered that the husband of the adulterous woman was missing. They interrogated her, and she confessed that a group of men got her and her husband drunk, but she did not know
that they had killed him. The killers were apprehended and confessed to their crime. Finally they were
killed in a public execution in the village for the crime they had committed.
Adúlteros matan a un hombre por causa de su mujer
Había una mujer cuyo marido se ausentaba mucho de su casa. El era comerciante ambulante. En su
ausencia su esposa empezó a tener relaciones sexuales con otros hombres. Por fin los amantes de la mujer
decidieron matar al marido de ella. Esos hombres lo emborracharon al marido de la mujer. Después lo
mataron. Partieron su cadáver en pedazos y tiraron las partes en el río. La gente del pueblo empezó a encontrar los pedazos del cadáver en el río, y dieron parte con las autoridades. Ellos empezaron a investigar
si había un hombre desaparecido en el pueblo. Por fin descubrieron que el marido de la adúltera estaba
ausente. La interrogaron a ella, y ella confesó que un grupo de hombres les habían emborrachado a ella y a
su marido. Pero ella dijo que no sabía si lo habían matado. Aprehendieron a los asesinos, y ellos confesaron
su crimen. Por fin los fusilaron en una ejecución pública en su pueblo.
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IBERIAN INSTITUTE
Project Background
The stories and rituals included in this collection were collected between 1968 and 1973. All of them are narrated
in the K’iche’ Maya language of Guatemala with almost all of the narrators speaking the Nahualá-Santa Catarina
Ixtahuacán dialect of that language.
Collected and recorded by
Dr. James Mondloch
Transcribed by
Miguel Guarchaj Ch’o’x and Diego Guarchaj
Funding and support provided by
The UNM Latin American and Iberian Institute and the US Department of Education Title VI National Resource
Center grant.
Title page image provided courtesy of
Dennis G. Jarvis
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