Eulodia Dagua, "Our Babies Cry Like the Animals We Eat."

Now if you have a newborn baby, what does the mother of the baby (have to abstain from eating?) When we have a baby, after giving birth we do not eat deer, collared peccary, or white-lipped peccary, or pacas, agoutis, or guans. The only thing we eat is the little tinamou. The tinamou and what they call the dove? That is the only thing they give us to eat. We are also prohibited from eating river catfish because they say it will cause the baby's navel to rot. Why will it rot if you eat that? They say that if you eat catfish the baby's navel will rot. Why? Umm hmm (Don't know). That is just what they say when they prohibit it. That little dove I was talking about? We can only eat that roasted. [And why aren't you supposed to eat peccary] Well, the peccary, you know how it goes "Hmm, hmm, hmmm?" That is how they say that the baby will cry. [And the paca?] The paca doesn't sleep. It does not sleep at night. [And the agouti?] Well, the agouti... They say that the baby will cry like it does. You know how the agouti cries "hiaw hiaw"? They say the baby will cry like that. And they say that if the mother eats a monkey the baby will cry like that. I saw that happen with my brother's child. They ate it halfway through the prohibited time. They did not complete the time of the fast. While the baby was lying there the woman was given the monkey to eat. "They just say that." "It’s just an old belief," they thought. And then it cried, "Churuú, churuú," it cried like that. It is true. Yes. It started crying like an animal. [What else can't you eat?] We are not supposed to eat those things, and besides that nothing like beef or pork. We can eat chicken but only if someone else kills it. We can eat chicken that someone else has killed. They say that the husband cannot kill it or the baby will die. And why are you not supposed to eat deer? Well the deer... The baby will become like the deer and cry "mamaaa, mamaaa." The baby will become one who cries, "Yiaaa! Yiaaa!". And with eating guan the same thing, the baby will cry, "wawaá, wawaá!" A little thin voice like that "tsin, tsin." This little throat will completely dry up. That is the reason that we don't eat those things.