Bélgica Dagua, "The Strangler Fig Loved a Girl."

This strangler-fig tree in the beginning times it had been a person a young man it had been but like that just like that, this tree had been lazy when it was being a man so being this lazy man this- he being a young man he (wanted) a woman, a young woman taking and intending (a woman), he wanted that one wanting (a woman) like this the father had realized this, the father realizing this he spoke to his daughter: "don't get married to that guy, that guy is a lazy man" (he's) saying the father being stingy, he goes, taking (his daughter) to some other place then a- at a village he had gone taking (her) this strangler-fig man had arrived there also the young man had searched intending (to find) where she was he had arrived there and then when he had arrived there, the father saw (him) (at night) hiding (her) he had taken his daughter to another place and there, arriving in some other place being there he (strangler fig man) is hearing this and he had arrived there too, that strangler fig man when he was a human arriving there the father saw (him) and then (at) night taking his daughter to another place he had had gone, "he's not going to marry (my daughter)" he's saying, being stingy and then like that they had gone, they had gone to every place and this (strangler fig) man had gone following them then and the father, being stingy with his daughter like this, takes her and was going taking (her), he's going and the daughter will say: "father" (she) had said "in vain you add places to go, we're going in circles" (she's) saying "now I'm going to clear" (she had said) "a lot, a whole forest" "I will clear it, I will chop down the trees" "I will plant manioc" "and that man" "we will have called to him (inviting him) so that he may drink" "and he will drink when we call him, I will make chicha and give him to drink" "drinking, he'll be drunk, and he'll be like that, so that (we) can kill him" (she) had said this when she was wasn't able to take it anymore she did not want that man "so let's kill (him)" thus saying, with her father, they are conversing together (planning) (she) had cleared a large area of this forest when the forest was cleared she had said to her father: "now you chop down the trees" "and I will clear the agricultural field" "I will bring little manioc sticks to plant" she had said that daughter so when the daughter had said that (her father) "I will now ascertain everything that needs to be chopped" "and you now you clear the whole agricultural field" and so having said that the father then had chopped down the trees, from half, half of the agricultural field and then apparently like that this strangler-fig man being a human, he had arrived where the father was chopping and when he was arriving, the father had been chopping nonchalantly and as he took his axe to chop from behind tak! he (the strangler-fig man) grabbed him (the father) by the throat and so doing in that way, then the strangler-fig man killed the tree-chopping man (the father) there and then after he killed him the daughter was clearing the agricultural field, he (strangler fig man) probably knew where the agricultural field was- and uh, he was going towards there so this one goes there, he leaves behind the father wanting (the daughter) he had followed her (stalking) as a stalker he arrived to where the daughter was (the daughter) arrived to the house that her father had left there, she-, she alone (she) sleeps after having cleared the agricultural field and like that, he arrived there at night and had said after arriving, he asked her: "why do you stay here having left your father?" thus saying, he had asked and then (she replied): "my father (went) to cut down trees all by himself" "if you really want me, why don't you go help my father cut down the trees?" thus she had said and after she had spoke like this, (he replies): "your father would be very angry with me" "for that reason, I did not help him" thus he had said like that she thinks: "I will speak with him, and will have talked with him" "and then him, here at night" "fooling him, and leaving him, I will go, (after) making him sleep" "he, my father, surely still lives" she was saying "perhaps" that daughter like that she was thinking reportedly, in order to sleep, she had laid down, like this and then having laid down and then like that becomes as if asleep, pin! (closing eyes) she had laid (there) and then, like this, he, with his hand, from there his hand from here tsi! (slithers) from there tsi! (slithers) from here tsi! (slithers) and she, like that- like that where she was laying down there, from here tsi! (slithers) from here tsi! (slithers) and then, like that it is happening, like this, reportedly, then his- this root this- like this one (here) reportedly from his hand (the root) grows utsuuun! (extending) and that- that woman (is being) taaayyy! (stuck-still), squeezing, he had killed her this strangler-fig man for that reason apparently he, that- the tree that he has wanted, he hugs it and he kills it and saying like that, is how they would tell the story of this strangler-fig tree (he) would tell this (story), the late grandfather Salomón he from what's that place, from Sarayaku we are told this by that old grandfather that is what I know.