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nahualhuia.

Headword: 
nahualhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to put a spell on someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nāhualhuiā
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwɑlwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀHUALHUIĀ vt to put a spell on someone / lo embruja (Z) [(2)Zp.49,190]. See NĀHUAL-LI, -HUlĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 157.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)