Chamula Tale of the Opossum and the Tiger.

Once upon a time, in the middle of the jungle, there was an opossum. He was perched on a coconabe tree eating the fruit, when at one point a tiger was walking around.

Hearing a little noise, he looked up and managed to see the opossum, and asked him a question:
"What are you doing in that coconabe bush?"

The other replied that he was eating fruit.

The tiger asked again:
"What is that fruit?"

To which he replied:
—It's the coyoles

So the tiger decided to eat one too to find out if the fruit is tasty.

He asked the opossum to throw one down for him to taste.
Then, since the tiger was very hungry, he wanted to swallow it whole, but he couldn't, it got stuck in his throat, from there he was deprived until the fruit was removed. When he recovered he began to chase the opossum to eat it. But as the opossum was holding a stone to build his house, when the tiger arrived, he asked him what he was doing. Then the opossum asked the tiger for help so that he could go get some sticks. But from there he never returned, so the tiger decided to drop the stone, but since he had told him not to drop it because he would be crushed, he didn't, but he was tired, so he dropped it and jumped, but the stone followed in place.

Then the tiger got enraged and chased the opossum until he found it. Finally, the tiger found a galley in the middle of a cane field, and there was the opossum with his legs crossed, playing the guitar because a wedding party was going to be held there. Then the opossum told the tiger that if he wanted to play the guitar, because he was going to reach his father and those who were going to get married. But he told him not to stop playing it and not to turn his eyes until he heard the first blow, and he did so, when he heard that noise he turned his eyes, but he was surrounded by fire, so he dropped the guitar and lay down. to run leaving all scorched and very upset, he was very determined to find the opossum and eat it, so he dedicated himself to chasing it.

Finally he came to a small lake and almost in the middle of it was a tree, so the tiger wanted to drink some water, when suddenly he realized that the opossum was there, under the water, so the tiger began to drink all the water, but he couldn't finish it, he got very full of so much water. He lay on his back, and realized that the opossum was climbing up the tree. Then the tiger told him to come down from there, but the tlacuache did not want to. Then the opossum said yes, but that the tiger swallow him whole, and the tiger did so, he swallowed him alive and whole. After a while the tiger went to throw, and there the opossum remained lying for a moment, and then he said to the tiger:

"I got you again."

When the tiger looked back, he saw how the opossum ran away.

Fountain:
González Casasnova Henríquez, Pablo (compiler): Histories, Legends and tales of the communities of Chiapas.
Mexico, UNAM / Autonomous University of Chiapas, 1998.