[26-†] The word _zahori_, of Arabic origin, is thus explained in the Spanish and English dictionary of Delpino (London, 1763): “So they call in Spain an impostor who pretends to see into the bowels of the earth, through stone walls, or into a man’s body.” Dr. Stoll says the Guatemala Indians speak of their diviners, the _Ah Kih_, as _zahorin_. _Guatemala_, s. 229. [26-‡] Emetorio Pineda, _Descripcion Geografica de Chiapas y Soconusco_, p. 22 (Mexico, 1845). [27-*] Madier de Montjau, “Manuscrits Figuratifs de l’ Ancien Mexique,” in _Archives de la Sociétè Americaine[TN-12] de France_, 1875, p. 245. [27-†] Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib. xv, cap. 16. [28-*] De la Serna, _Manual de Ministros_, pp. 20, 21, 42, 162. The mushroom referred to was the _quauhnanacatl_, probably the same as the _teyhuinti_ of Hernandez, _Hist. Plant. Nov. Hispan._, Tom. ii, p. 358, who says that it is not dangerous to life, but disturbs the mind, inciting to laughter and intoxication. [28-†] Actual slavery of the Indians in Mexico continued as late as the middle of the seventeenth century. See Cavo, _Tres Siglos de Mexico_, etc., Tom. ii, p. 11. [28-‡] Brasseur, _Hist. des Nations Civilisées de Mexique_, Tom. iv, p. 822. [29-*] _Informe del teniente general, Don Jacobo de Barba Figueroa, corregidor de la Provincia de Suchitepeque_, quoted by Brasseur. [29-†] Jacinto de la Serna says: “Los mæstros de estas ceremonias son todos unos, y lo que sucede en esta cordillera en todas sucede.” _Manual de Ministros_, p. 52. Speaking of the methods of the nagualists of Chiapas, Bishop Nuñez de la Vega writes: “Concuerdan los mas modernos con los mas antiguos que se practicaban en Mexico.” _Constituciones Diocesanas_, p. 134. [29-‡] He observes that there were “familias de los tales sabios en las quales en manera de patrimonio se heredaban, succediendo los hijos á los padres, y principalmente su abominable secta de Nagualismo.” _Historia del Cielo y de la Tierra_, MS., p. 7. Ordoñez advances various erudite reasons for believing that Nagualism is a religious belief whose theory and rites were brought from Carthage by Punic navigators in ancient times. [29-§] Maria de Moxó, _Cartas Mejicanas_, p. 270, (Genova, n. d.). [30-*] “_Xochimilca_, que asi llamavan à los mui sabios encantadores.” Torquemada, _Monarquia Indiana_, Lib. xv, cap. 16. [30-†] In Nahuatl, _tlapiani_, a guardian or watchman. The Zapotec priesthood was divided into the _huijatoos_, “greater guardians,” and their inferiors, the _copavitoos_, “guardians of the gods.” Carriedo, _Estudios Historicòs_,[TN-13] p. 93. [30-‡] See Eligio Ancona. _Historia de Yucatan_, Tom. iv, cap. 1 (Mérida, 1880).