The Weasels and the Giants

The Weasels and the Giants in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


Here is the Latin you need to understand the story; I have linked to the story page by page with the Latin passages below:

p. 254

Si cenare vult, carnem cum excrementis misce; cum aqua oportet urinam miscere.

If he wants something to eat, mix meat with shit; mix urine with water.

p. 255

Caro vero cum excrementis mixta, aqua cum urina.

But the meat was mixed with shit, water with urine.

...ita ut testes combusti essent.

so that his testicles caught on fire.

Caput testesque excisi et ejecti.

His head and testicles were cut off and thrown away.

Testium ejectorum crepitus a gigantis fratribus auditus.

The rattling of his thrown-away testicles was heard by his brother giants.

p. 256

Testes conspectos assidue devoraverunt. 

When they saw the testicles, they devoured them greedily.

Hi semper omnium animalium testes edebant, quare No'yodika, Testium Editores, appellati sunt.

They always ate the testicles of all kinds of animals, so they were called No'yodika, Eaters of Testicles.

Quidnam videtis? Matris vaginam?

What do you see? Your mother's vagina?

p. 257

Minxit.

He peed.