Peregrinación a la laguna y en busca de trabajo en la carretera

Resumen

In the first of these true stories, transcribed in the Otomi of San Antonio Huehuetla, Hidalgo, the inhabitants decide to go make offerings to the Lagoon, which threatens to flood the town. They take music, liquor, chickens and turkeys, cut paper dolls, food, candles, hallucinogenous plants, flowers and a basket of clothes to the Non-Indian Flower Woman who dwells in the Lagoon and who is appeased by the offering.
In the second text two young men set out to look for workon the road. Their adventures, generally unfortunate, take them as far as Poza Rica, Veracruz, from which they return home defeated and hungry.