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nahualiztli.

Headword: 
nahualiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

sorcery (see Karttunen); a synonym would be nahuallotl (see Francisco León Carbajal, Discurso sobre la legislación de los antiguos mexicanos (1864) (México: INACIPE, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Penales, 2014).

Orthographic Variants: 
nāhualiztli
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwɑlistɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

NĀHUALIZ-TLI sorcery / brujería (X) [(1)Xp.56]. X marks the vowel of the second syllable long instead of the first. See NĀHUAL-LI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 157.

themes: 
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
Religion (Indigenous)