Children who are very slow in learning to talk are given remedies. With these remedies the child will learn to speak much quicker. A house may be set free from the evil spirits. To do so, the occupants of the house must get eight straight pins and make four crosses out of them. The crosses are then placed in the four corners of the house so that when the evil spirits see the crosses they will not enter the house.
Witches walk in the night.
Men witches take on the form of burros and women witches take on the form of turkeys. People relate stories of how burros and turkeys have been a nuisance to them while on a journey during the night, and how they cut these animals with their long knives. The following day they heard that a person was cut in the night with a knife and they believe that person to be a witch. The hoot owl with his horrible screech is a sure sign of bad luck. When they come near the village during the day or night, the people sic the dogs on them and chase them from town.