Bélgica Dagua, "A forest woman seeks a bride for her son."

She almost married that woman's son. She wanted to. When did you dream (that)? Last night. Last night. That is what I dreamed. About that place over there? Yes. About that place where we were walking (in the forest yesterday). We passed bey a whole community there (of forest people without knowing it). They were there like this, like this. There were houses upon houses in that place. As we were passing by a woman asked, "Where are you from? So then I said, "I am not from around here." "I am from Pastaza. We came here because this father Tomás invited us" I chatted with her. That is how I talked with that woman. That is what the lady was saying...And my sister started joking with her (like I was available)! So when she joked like that I said "I am not single. She is just saying that ma'am." "I have a child," I told her just like that. Like I was awake and sober. So we talked just as though we were talking (here) in this world. So then she said, "No! Marry my son. Stay here." So I said, "No. I have a child." "If he is single I will marry him but I am going to take him over there to where I live," I was saying. So then she was saying to me, "No. Go bring your child (to live here). My son is single." "That is how I dreamed. That is how I dreamed because I walked on my father's land. She was a forest/mountain woman from here? Yes. She spoke to me to ask (for my hand) on behalf of the mountain woman's son. That's how (I dreamed). What did that woman look like? Oh, like a good looking woman. Just like a very human woman. Like a normal woman. There were a lot of them there where we passed by. We passed by like this along the edge of their dwellings. That is where I passed. So as we passing by talking she.... Well we were laughing as we passed by. That's why that woman came out and spoke directly. She was laughing too? She was teasing. That is why she said "Stay here." So then.. I became like one who is afraid," and was saying, "No. lady I am a woman who has a child." "If I were single I would marry your son," I said. And then she.. "He is single," That woman said. She said her son was single, He didn't have a wife. It was when she wanted to give me that young man that I responded to her like that. With what kind of language did she speak to you? She spoke like this, "Stay here! Stay and live here." When she said that I thought, "No! I was sad thinking of my child. So thinking about my child I told her, "I am a mother." Then she said, "No. Go bring your child here." When that woman said that my sister started joking too "Just stay here. No one is going to say anything (to stop you)," my sister was saying. My sister was already giving me away! Then I countered and said "No!" in my dream. That is what I dreamed. So they were laughing at me this morning as we were waking up, "That forest woman probably wanted to give you her son!" "What was her dress like?" Her dress was normal. They were well dressed like this. Like people. Did you see their houses? Their houses are like, like (you know) how tiled roof houses are?They are houses that look like that not like zinc (metal sheet roof) houses. High peaked like tile houses. Not woven thatch? Yes it was like woven but you know how (tiles) appear piled one on top of the other evenly, evenly in rows? A beautiful house like that. It wasn't (woven of) cyclanthaceae leaves. No it wasn't just a cyclanthaceae roof. It was a beautiful (house). You know how the city people live? Like that but it wasn't a transparent (glass windowed) house. It was steep roofed. Yellowish, but a house that looked quite different. There were a lot of (unseen) people where we were walking. And we passed right by their doorway. We (passes) like this. Like this. The house was her like this. We passed right by the place where the house was. As you see it, in the dream where did you find all of that? Was it inside the mountain? in the forest? Had your spirit travelled there? It was over there, there where we were going. It was over there where they are that I met those people. Yes but at night did your spirit travel over there again? Yes it travelled there since I went walking (in that place). It followed the tracks (feeling them in the dark). So there it met them. And they, in the dream, do they come out (from inside) the mountain or did your spirit enter in to there? Well it was when they came out to walk that we met them on the path as we were coming. It was because we met them there that they asked (for my hand). That is how I dreamed.