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Shirampari irosati shiincharinchari ("The Man and Shiincharinchari")

  • Item identifier: 2014-13.013
  • Date: 11 Aug 2014
  • Contributors: Joy Salazar Torres (consultant); Zachary O'Hagan (researcher, donor; ORCID)
  • Language: Caquinte (cot)
  • Place: Kitepámpani, Megantoni, La Convención, Cusco, Peru
  • Description: The narrator tells a story about the demon Shiincharinchari. The plot centers around a girl, betrothed to a Caquinte man, who is carrying out a three-month period in her menarche seclusion hut. When the man is away hunting and doing other tasks, Shiincharinchari convinces the girl to emerge from the hut and kills her. The man avenges the girl's death by burning Shiincharinchari alive in a massive "shimita" tree, where she lives.
  • Availability: Online access
  • Collection: Caquinte Field Materials
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: Shirampari irosati shiincharinchari ("The Man and Shiincharinchari"), 2014-13.013, in "Caquinte Field Materials", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23709.

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