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miembro genital y los testiculos del till sacrificado, y se los daban a una 

 vieja que tenian por profeta, para que los comiese, y le pedian rogasse a 

 su idolo les diesse raas caplivos." * 



When Captain Pedro de Alvarado, in the year 1524, was 

 marching upon Quetzaltanango, in Guatemala, just such a fearful 

 old witch took her stand at the summit of the pass, with her 

 familiar in the shape of a dog, and " by spells and nagualistic 

 incantations " undertook to prevent his approach. f 



As in the earliest, so in the latest accounts. The last revolt 

 of the Indians of Chiapas occurred among the Zotzils in 1869, 

 The cause of it was the seizure and imprisonment by the Spanish 

 authorities of a "mystical woman," known to the whites as 

 Santa Rosa, who, together with one of their ahaus or chieftains, 

 had been suspected of fomenting sedition. The natives marched 

 thousands strong against the city of San Cristobal, where the 

 prisoners were, and secured their liberation; but their leader, 

 Ignacio Galindo, was entrapped and shot by the Spaniards, and 

 the mutiny was soon quelled. | 



33. But perhaps the most striking instance is that recorded 

 in the history of the insurrection of the Tzentals of Chiapas, 

 in 1713. They were led b}' an Indian girl, a native Joan of Arc, 

 fired by like enthusiasm to drive from her country the hated 

 foreign oppressors, and to destroy every vestige of their pres- 

 ence. She was scarcely twent}" years old, and was known to 

 the Spaniards as Maria Candelaria. She was the leader of what 

 most historians call a religious sect, but what Ordoiiez y Aguiar, 

 himself a native of Chiapas, recognizes as the powerful secret 

 association of Nagualism, determined on the extirpation of the 

 white race. Ho estimates that in Chiapas alone there were 

 nearly seventy thousand natives under her orders — doubtless an 

 exaggeration — and asserts that the conspiracy extended far into 



* Fr. Tomas Goto, Biccionario de In Lenrjua Cakchiquel, MS., s. v. Sacrijlcar ; in the 

 Library of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia. 



t " Trataron de valers(! del arte de los encantos y naguales " are the words of the author, 

 Fuentes y Guzman, in his Rccordacion Florida, Tom. i, p. 50. In the account of Bernal 

 Diaz, it reads as if this witch and her dog had botli been sacrificed ; but Fuentes is clear 

 in his statement, and had other documents at hand. 



t Teobert Maler, " Memoire sur I'Etat de Chiapa*," in the Rdnte d' Ethnographic, Tom. 

 iii, pp. 309-311. This writer also gives some valuable facts about the Indian insurrection 

 in the Sierra de Alicia, in 1873. 



