The Boy's Travels and the Water-Youths

The Boy's Travels and the Water-Youths 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. 284

Anum quoque titillavit; cum testibus et cum membro virili ludebat.

Dzoavits tickled the boy's butthole also; he played with his testicles and with his penis.

Coyote Tales in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


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p. 274

Nocte Canis assidue copulavit.

At night, Coyote had non-stop sex.

Gravidae erant.

They were pregnant.

p. 275

Nocte in lectum minxit et uxor eum expulit.

At night he peed in the bed and his wife kicked him out.

p. 279

Ablatis vestimentis, corpore flexo, Canis in eius anum subulam inseruit.

Having taken off his clothes and bending his body, Coyote put his awl into (the White Man's) anus.

[An awl appears in other stories; see p. 265 and p. 271.]

Porcupine and Coyote

Porcupine and Coyote in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


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p. 268

et in eius corpus cacavit.

and (Coyote) shit on (Porcupine's) body.

Iterum in eius corpus cacavit.

Again he shit on his body.

Dzoavits and the Old Woman + Dzoavits

Dzoavits and the Old Woman + Dzoavits
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


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p. 261

Magna illae pudenda.

Her private parts were big.

p. 262

Dzo'avitsi testes pendebant; juvenis eos baculo tutudit.

Dzo'avits's balls were hanging down; the young (Weasel) beat them with his stick.

The Weasel Brothers

The Weasel Brothers 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. 260

Illius testes pendebant, pendentes iuvenis tutudit.

His balls were hanging down; the young (Weasel) pounded on the hanging balls.

Ille juvenis meos testes tundit.

That young (weasel) is pounding my balls.

Illius quoque testes pendebant.

His balls were also hanging down.

Juvenis pendentes testes acu pupugit.

The young (weasel) pricked the hanging balls with a needle.

Dzoavits and Mosquito

Dzoavits and Mosquito in
The Northern Shoshone
by Robert Lowie, 1909.


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p. 259

Cum uxore coire concupivit. 

(Dzo/avits) desired to have sex with his wife.

Mulier recubuit. 

The woman lay down.

Cruribus distentis Culex in vaginam silicem injecit, quo facto exiit.

When her legs were spread wide, Mosquito stuck a flint-stone into her vagina, and after he did this, he left.

Coitu completo Dzo'avits ortus est.

When he had finished having sex, Dzo'avits stood up.

Dzoavits and the Weasels

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

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p. 258

"Coire volo" mulieri inquit. 

"I want to have sex," (Dzo'avits) said to the woman.

Uxor supina cunnum exposuit. 

The wife, stretched out, exposed her cunt. 

Mustela in eius rimam terram injecit. 

Weasel put dirt into the crack (of her cunt).

Dzo'avits in vaginam membrum inseruit, futuere coepit. 

Dzo'avits stuck his penis into her vagina; he began to fuck her.

Mentulam silicem tangere sensit. 

He felt his dick touching against stone.

"Hoc quid est?" 

"What is this?"

Juvenis silicem injecerat. 

The young (Weasel) had put a stone (in his wife's cunt).

Conspecto juvene, "Tu" Dzo'avits inquit, "terram jecisti in uxoris rimam." 

When he saw the young (Weasel), Dzo'avits said, "YOU put dirt into the crack (of my wife's cunt)." 

Longe et assidue coibat. 

He had sex with her for a long time, non-stop.

Sole oriente coitus completus.

When the sun came up, the sex was over.

p. 259

Viri anum non invenit multis comis. 

He could not find the man's anus in all the hair.

Eius excrementa scrutinatus.

He examined (the man's) shit.