the sorcerer's act of shaving a sick person, leaving some hair on the head, in the shape of a coiled snake (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tequacuicuiloliztli
Alonso de Molina:
tequacuicuiloliztli. el acto de tresquilar o rapar el hechizero al enfermo, dexando algun pelo enla cabeza, a manera de culebra enroscada. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 104v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.