Eulodia Dagua, "Allpa kumishin."

This subterranean termite. When he was a human, he behaved like a child being a very old person, he was like a child being an old person. Mmk! He was very bad being an old person, he was always angry, he was not a good person. Since he was a bad person, "I'm getting old and no one visits me, I'm not well, everyone scolds me. What am I going to become?" "Even if I become a subterranean termite. Even if I am a subterranean termite termite, I will not be good," he said. "But, I don't care if they know or don't know about me when I become a subterranean termite. When I am a termite," he said. People who were born after do not know. My grandfather used to tell me, "We must be very careful with the subterranean termite. You must be afraid of it." That is why my grandfather used to say, "You can't enter someone else's fields without thinking. You can't enter other people's houses without thinking." "Why, Grandpa?" "We people walk only on foot. They can take our footprints and put them on top of the termite. The whole foot will start to swell and rot," that's what my grandfather said. "That's why we have to think and not enter other houses, also think and not enter other chagras. That's what I advise you, daughter," said my grandfather. "That's why women should live by working hard. In this world, as long as I'm still alive, I tell you that," said my grandfather. "Why does he say that?" I asked myself. I still have in my mind what he said. What the elders say stays in my head. I had that in mind and just a woman told me: "Do you know the story about the subterranean termite?" I said that I don't know about that. "Hey, daughter! We must be afraid of the termite," she told me. "Why?" "If you see this termite, when you walk on foot and if they put something, we have to sit down making a group," she told me. In group, making a group. Thus, she told me about someone. "Here in front of the river there was a man who stole many plantains, he stole many plantains," she said. It's true. She used termites when she saw that he took a lot of plantains. She was angry, very angry, and she put (his footprint). So, to see if it's true, she took the whole print and put it in the termite and put it—pak!—like this. "Making a hole, I put the footprints and—tao!—I covered it because I was so angry," she said. "So, when no one steals, the plantains grow well—win! But the thief has calmed down (he can't walk. His leg hurt)," that's what she told me. That's when I just realized: "Ahhh... because that's how it is, my grandfather used to tell me that," I said. Also when pumas and hawks eat chickens, the bones (of the chicken) are collected and a hole is made in the termite house... and put them (bones) inside when pumas eat chickens, also when hawks eat the chickens. That’s what my grandfather said. "That is why they will die getting stuck," he told me. "Puma and hawks will no longer be able to hunt," he told me. "That's what the termite is for," said my grandfather. That's what he told me. That's why I know what my grandfather used to say about subterranean termites. Is the termite an envious person? He was a very bad old man, that's why he used to do bad things. He was someone who killed people. He was like that, but when he got old, who would love a bad person? That's why, when he was old... He became a termite. Why did he stay like this? Because he was very envious. That's why he's been like this until now. That's how he stayed. That's why he became a termite (for being a bad person). That's the reason why he became a termite—because he was a bad person. Did he start eating trees? He started eating. We call it chaki paju (cramp). Here we say cramp when the foot stays like this—"aauk!" When the foot is like this (cramp), you step on it (on top of the termite) and we say, "Take away cramps, take away cramps, take away cramps." Then cramps quickly go away—go away—they calm down.