The Girl from Chimel by Rigoberta Menchú

Author:Rigoberta Menchú
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Published: 2020-08-06T16:26:27+00:00

Grandfather and the Cornfield

When my grandfather became an old man, he was once more a child. Like the children, he had to watch over the cornfields so that the animals wouldn’t go in. Grandfather would hide against a rock with a stick in his hand. Little by little, he built a roof out of palm leaves, and by using a few sticks as support, he built himself a little hut by the side of the cornfield. If animals came near, he would yell or chase after them with a stick, frightening them away.

We children would help him because he would tell us stories during his free time. For example, he told us the story of the little man who braided horses’ tails at night. He was a nahual, a source of power. Sometimes the little man would be a duende, a good spirit, and at other times he’d be a demon.

Grandfather would tell us that this man was as tiny as a child, no bigger than two feet high. And he had a huge hat on his head, the kind that cowboys wear in Mexico. He had eyebrows as thick as whiskers and whiskers as huge as eyebrows turned inside out. He was as small as a frog, and the only nice part about him was his pair of big black eyes.

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