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nahualtocaitl.

Headword: 
nahualtocaitl.
Principal English Translation: 

an oral genre called Nahual Names, with incantations (late 1584, described in an inquisitorial proceeding)
David Tavárez, The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), 70.

themes: 
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
Religion (Indigenous)
See also: 
nahualli.
tocaitl.