to connect or ensnare someone through witchcraft (recognizing that Molina's term "hechizos" conveys a cultural lens)
Alonso de Molina:
tlepan quetza. nite. (pret. onitetlepanquetz.) ligar a otro con hechizos. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.