In ancient times, residents of the village of Kankuhka and surrounding villages preferred to walk to the Hovel Valley. There was a market where they could profitably sell part of their harvest and buy everything they needed. But bad luck, every time on the way there, trouble happened to them.
And the reason was that at the entrance to the Hovel valley, in the town of Chupaktik, which is right next to the road, a hairy man, or nakhtilkhol*, settled. He lured everyone who walked past him, inviting him to the game. He simply forced those who did not want to play with him.
The game consisted of jumping as high as possible. Since no one could jump higher than the nachtilhol himself, the hairy one always won. He killed the loser, appropriating his goods. So the nakhtilkhol became the owner of the things that were carried for sale to Khovel.
One day, two young men from Kankuhk, one of them reputed to be a great cunning man, set off on foot, as usual, to Jovel, carrying sugar loaves for sale. Along the way, they agreed on how to behave during the inevitable game.
When the young peasants passed Chupaktik, a nahtilhol immediately appeared and invited them to play with him. The cunning one volunteered first. He jumped along with the hairy one. Both jumped so high that they disappeared from sight for a while. But then the sly man landed back, followed by the dead body of the nakhtilhol. No one knows how he managed to win the battle, but he did not share this with his comrade, and they continued on their way to the Hovel Valley.
...Two friends sold sugar loaves in the Hovel Valley, and then returned safe and sound to their home village. There everyone asked them how they managed to get to Jovel and how the mestizos accepted them. But the young men did not say anything about what happened. They only explained that no one was waiting for them in Chupaktika. They repeated in their village the same thing as among the Kaslans. They did not tell anyone how they managed to kill Nachtilhol.
So again the way to Khovel was opened for all people from nearby villages. And all this thanks to the brave young men who managed to kill the nahtilhol, who lived for a long time at the entrance to the Hovel valley, in a place known as Chupaktik. From that day on, everyone could sell their goods and harvests from the fields there, as well as buy everything they needed for themselves and their relatives.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru