nagual
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editnagual (plural naguals or naguales)
- (Mesoamerican mythology) Alternative form of nahual
- 1986, John M. Ingham, Mary, Michael, and Lucifer: Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico, page 119:
- If a cross of lime is painted on the bottom of a metate it becomes "too heavy" for a nagual to carry.
- 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 6, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- Who would want a dog like that? ... Double animal, nagual—whose?
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editnagual m (plural naguales)
- Alternative form of nahual
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edit- “nagual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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