Nahual appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex records nahualli speech — specialists and fate-ties of animal co-essences in Nahua ethnography. A named colonial-era Nahua shape/co-essence figure, not skinwalker and not a generic were-animal.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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