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tecotzcuani.

Headword: 
tecotzcuani.
Principal English Translation: 

wizard

Orthographic Variants: 
tecotzquani
Alonso de Molina: 

tecotzquani. hechizero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

The tecotzquanime could make their victims sick, resulting in the death of those people, so that the wizards could take their possessions.
Michel Graulich, "Las brujas de las peregrinaciones aztecas," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 22 (1992), 87–98, for this example, see 89.

themes: 
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining