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The Social Relation to Trees

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Carmen Andi and Eulodia Dagua, “Speaking Nicely to a Medicine Tree: Kichwa Harvest of Cespedesia Spathulata.” Youtube video. 5:50. April 25, 2020.  https://youtu.be/EROaSvnDBS4

Eulodia Dagua, "Why I Wake Up the Tree to Harvest Its Medicine."' https://youtu.be/lsxrfPNWxAI. Kichwa and English subtitles.  Quizlet exercise on vocabulary in "Why I wake up a tree."

Trees wake up at night.

Pedro Andi,  “Spirit Owners of the Kapok Tree."  Youtube video. 5:31. Posted [August 30, 2016]. https://youtu.be/sB4mS-Q-DtY. Kichwa subtitles.

Pedro Andi, "Why Strangler Figs Don't Attack Kapok Trees.”  Youtube video.  1:16. April 11, 2020.  https://youtu.be/8pPllVAFTJQ  No subtitles.

Eulodia Dagua and Delicia Dagua, "It is the trees that call the water.”  YouTube video 3:34.  April 25, 2015. https://youtu.be/xMYG0Vr_doI

Bélgica Dagua, “The Strangler Fig Loved a Girl.”  YouTube video. 6:29 Posted [Au- gust 15, 2016]. https://youtu.be/Q6bYzbGCOJQ. English and Quichua subtitles. 

Eulodia Dagua,  “A wild cacao tree kills a man.”  Youtube video. 3:12. Posted [December 6, 2016]. https://youtu.be/uMOyj1QoPzY.   English subtitles on old white background. (2010 version).

Eulodia Dagua, 'Wild Cacao Tree Kills a Greedy Man (June 2012).'" Youtube video.  9:41. December 6, 2016. https://youtu.be/5SbQ4CKWyIE   No subtitles. Kushillu Kambiak

Eulodia Dagua tells the story of how the spirit of a wild cacao tree killed a man who wanted to steal its fruit.  To keep this from happening the old people used to chop down the tree before harvesting its fruit.  This killed the tree spirit that might avenge the taking of its fruit.

Eulodia Dagua, “Sweeping Away the Breath of Trees.”   Youtube video.  1:11. March 23, 2016. https://youtu.be/MrtI3qj3Lkc   Kichwa subtitles.

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